The Venezuelan government has today hit back at American Vice President Joe Biden for comments he made concerning the situation in Caracas.

Protests in Venezuela have turned violent once more today as protesters clashed with Government forces, leaving two more dead.

Lawmakers in Florida have pushed the Obama administration to punish the Venezuelan government for violence against demonstrators.

Cuban President Raúl Castro visits Venezuela to honor the one year death anniversary of former Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez.

Here are ten outrageous quotes that demonstrate the occasional madness of the charismatic leader, Hugo Chavez.

Despite the Ukranian crisis, Russian President Vladimir Putin has taken time to remember Hugo Chávez on the anniversary of his death.

Venezuela will remember late head of state Hugo Chávez on Wednesday in a series of commemorative acts.

Opposition protestors marched from the middle-class district of Altamira into the shantytown Petare on Tuesday.

Venezuelan Chancellor Elías Jaua has accused student protesters of engineering an "international campaigsn of lies and falsehoods."

UN Secretary of State Ban Ki-moon has called for the government of Nicolas Maduro to listen to the demands made by the protesters

Nicolas Maduro has announced that Venezuela will be embarking on a week of events to commemorate the death of Hugo Chavez.

The Uruguayan president said he would "not interfere," but added that if the Venezuelan opposition and government both sought his help on ongoing unrest which has left 15 dead in Venezuela, he would serve as mediator.

Pope Francis has weighed in on the protests in Venezuela, calling for "hostilities and violence to cease immediately"

Capriles said he wouldn't attend a talk with Maduro despite threats that benefits to his state of Miranda could be cut off if he did not. "Nicolás, you are not going to use me," he said at a press conference.

Opposition protesters say 13 people have been killed while demonstrating. The government disputes this number, saying that the victim of a stabbing on Saturday was not an opposition member.

Maduro has revoked the credentials of CNN after threatening to ban the network. There's no official CNN ban yet, but administrative processes have begun.

The president Nicolás Maduro didn't seem to understand what "SOS" means and in a video that has gone viral, he confused the call for help with something else.

Watch a Venezuelan citizen's coverage of the protest in her home town.

During a nationally televised broadcast, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro told his citizens If you don't like Venezuela, leave."

Nicolás Maduro says CNN's programming wants to make Venezuela look as if they were in a civil war. If they don't rectify their content, their signal will be blocked.

López, who helped convene the Feb. 12 protests which ended in the shooting death of three unarmed protestors, was formally charged with arson and conspiracy.

Madonna has lashed out at Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro on Instagram saying "Apparantly Maduro is not familiar with the phrase "Human Rights"!

The Venezuelan government responded sharply to Obama's denunciation of violence against opposition protestors, calling it a "new and crude interference in the internal affairs" of Venezuela.

Venezuela's chancellor, Elías Jaua, today revealed that the the government of Nicolas Maduro is sore with the Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos.

Venezuela is going through some major protests against the government of Nicolás Maduro, and Leopoldo López is one of the heads behind them. He is a leader with Venezuela’s Popular Will opposition party, who’s helped lead the protests in Caracas, calling for the resignation of Maduro. But where did he come from? We've gathered 6 fast facts about this man who's been making international headlines.

A 17-year-old engineering student José Ernesto Méndez was one of several demonstrators hit by a truck in the city of Carúpano on Tuesday as they blocked a road in protest. Authorities say the driver has been arrested.

Protests in Venezuela have gotten increasingly violent and correspondingly a number of prominent Venezuelans have spoken out.

Thousands of Venezuelans gathered in New York and Miami on Monday to protest violence against student-led opposition protestors after three were shot to death at a march last week.

The Venezuelan government says they have for years been intercepting dispatches from US consular officials asking for more funding for youth civil-society organizations which the government counts as being among the opposition.

Twitter users in Venezuela lost image services for a day after three protestors were killed while taking part in demonstrations against the government of Nicolas Maduro.