The Latest Breaking News from Venezuela

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Friday named the new head of state oil company PDVSA as Pedro Rafael Tellechea and said Yvan Gil Pinto would become the country's new foreign minister.

Venezuela's splintered opposition, which appointed new leadership this week, faces enormous short-term challenges as it chooses a presidential candidate and tries to maintain talks with a less diplomatically isolated government, lawmakers and analysts said.

DALLAS — The U.S. government will expand humanitarian passage monthly for as many as 30,000 people from Cuba, Nicaragua, Haiti and Venezuela under a broad measure designed to grapple with historic migration from the Western Hemisphere, senior White House officials announced Thursday.

The new programme result in the immediate expulsion of anyone from those nations who crosses the US-Mexico border between ports of entry

Opposition lawmakers voted to dissolve Guaidó's "interim presidency" after four years.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke with Brazil's new Foreign Minister Mauro Vieira on Tuesday and discussed a trip to Washington by newly sworn-in leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.

Migrants arrived at record numbers in Panama in 2022, the Central American nation said Sunday, with most of them leaving Venezuela and crossing the dangerous Darien Gap region in an attempt to reach the United States.

Private vehicles started crossing between Colombia and Venezuela for the first time in years on Sunday, marking the total opening of the shared border, in addition to cargo and people that have been transiting.

Venezuela and Colombia will fully reopen their shared border on January 1 to allow passage of cargo and passenger transport via the cross-border Tienditas bridge, Colombia Migration said in a statement on Saturday.