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Venezuela latest: Maduro sworn in for third term as global backlash and sanctions mount

Jan. 10, 2025 22:39 PM EST

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro was sworn in for a third six-year term Friday despite international condemnation of his recent reelection as illegitimate, as his administration grows increasingly brazen in cracking down on opponents. The country's...

Venezuela's Maduro takes new oath amid protests and international rebuke

Jan. 10, 2025 18:30 PM EST

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro was sworn in for a new term on Friday, extending his increasingly repressive rule in the face of renewed protests and rebukes from the United States and others who believe he stole last year's vote. Venezuela’s...

More Americans jailed in Venezuela pose a test of Trump's deal-making foreign policy

Jan. 08, 2025 16:41 PM EST

MIAMI (AP) — Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro will be sworn in for a third term Friday while hundreds of government opponents arrested since his disputed reelection last summer languish in the country's packed prisons. Sharing cells with them are as many as 10 Americans. ...

Venezuela's political newcomer Edmundo González says it's his turn to rule

Jan. 08, 2025 16:37 PM EST

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Edmundo González has become a beacon of hope for millions of Venezuelans. They want to call him president. He believes he won that office at the ballot box last year. The government of President Nicolás Maduro says he did not. The stakes for Friday’s...

Venezuelan opposition leader who claims to have defeated Maduro meets Biden at White House

Jan. 06, 2025 21:10 PM EST

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — The Venezuelan opposition leader who claims to have defeated President Nicolás Maduro in last year’s presidential election met Monday with U.S. President Joe Biden just days ahead of Maduro's contested inauguration to a third term. Biden's White House...