Nicolas Maduro

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

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.

#OscarsforVenezuela is a movement on twitter urging winners and nominees to mention the situation going on in that country at the Oscars.

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

Marco Rubio, a Cuban-American senator from Florida, called the government of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro "puppets of Havana," and said he would push for sanctions against them for recent violence against opposition protesters.

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.

San Cristóbal, Táchira is quickly becoming the new front of standoffs between the Venezuelan government and opposition protestors.

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.

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"!

Génesis Carmona, a former Miss Tourism in her state of Carabobo, died on Wednesday after being shot in the head in a Tuesday protest. The state's governor had called for groups aligned with the governing socialist party to launch an "immediate counterattack".

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

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.

Venezuelan capital Caracas has become the center of increasingly violent student-run protests against Maduro's government.

Miami members of Congress have spoken out publically against President Nicolas Maduro and urged him to bring peace to the troubled capital.

The Venezuelan government says coup plotters trained in Mexico infiltrated the ranks of students at massive protests which called for the exit of Nicolás Maduro.

Maduro blamed the “fascist” opposition for three deaths during a student protest on Wednesday and said the country was facing an “evolving coup."

Someone made a fake Facebook movie for Mexican president Enrique Peña Nieto.

"La Isla Presidencial" garnered the attention of Maduro himself this summer. The creators' new Facebook parody is more biting.

A new museum dedicated to the late Venezuelan president opened, where a number of Latin American heads of state were on hand for the inauguration.

International airlines in Venezuela are suspending flights and ticket sales in bolivars until the government pays them some $3.3 billion in debt.