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Vargas Llosa says he plans to show his support for opposition protestors in Venezuela by traveling to Caracas to attend a conference held by a free-market think tank there.

Maria Corina Machado, the Venezuelan opposition leader recently expelled from the country's National Assembly, has today spoken before the Brazilian Senate.

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado has been blocked from returning to Venezuela's National Assembly amidst the eruption of violence in Caracas.

Corina Machado, one of the most outspoken and conservative voices among opposition lawmakers, has been stripped of her seat in the National Assembly after the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the government.

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While US could still use targeted sanctions against Venezuela, Juan Manuel Santos announced Maduro had agreed to a dialogue with opposition sectors.

As protests in Venezuela intensify, anger amongst the country's protesters has turned increasingly towards their Caribbean communist counterpart.

Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado has published an impassioned letter to the people of Venezuela.

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro called Corina Machado an "ex-congresswoman" on Tuesday. National Assembly president Diosdado Cabello says the opposition lawmaker automatically forfeited her seat upon serving as Panama's alternative representative before the OAS last week.

Maduro said the three generals had called this week "the decisive week" in leading the Air Force in a coup plot against his government.

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has threatened mayor Ramon Muchacho with arrest for his role in recent violence.

Daniel Ceballos, an outspoken opposition mayor from the city of San Cristóbal, where protests began in early February, was arrested by SEBIN agents on Wednesday.

The longtime anti-Chavista and opposition leader will speak before the Organization of American States (OAS) about the situation in Venezuela after Panama ceded its seat to her.

Air Canada has suspended all flights to and from Venezuela over security concerns.

A captain in Venezuela's National Guard had been killed during a shoot out in the city of Maracay during another set of anti-government protests.

Protests have taken place once again in Venezuela on Sunday, with protesters calling for an end to Cuba's involvement in the troubled South American nation.

Secretary of State John Kerry has today accused Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro of waging a "campaign of terror" against his own people.

The death toll in Venezuela has now risen to twenty-five as students and anti-government activists took to the streets in a number of rallies.

Jesús Enrique Acosta died on Tuesday after being shot in the head. Six others were wounded when government supporters ambushed a student-led opposition protest.

The resolution, sponsored by Cuban-American senators Bob Menendez (D-NJ) and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), will head to the full Senate for a vote.

The two dead were a student opposition leader and a woman whom friends described as a government sympathizer.

Venezuela's president Nicolás Maduro insists that the stability of Venezuela "is the social and economic guarantee" for the entirety of South America.

A human rights watchdog in Venezuela has already reported 18 possible cases of torture. On Monday, a UN researcher said he had presented two or three reports of "very serious" torture to the Human Rights Council along with a bevy of excessive-force reports.

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

The Venezuelan press syndicate says the country's National Guard has engaged in "absolutely repressive" actions against journalists, including stealing their equipment, and criticizes some protestors for attacks as well.

Biden is heading to Chile on Sunday and the Dominican Republic on Wednesday. On the agenda are Venezuelan protests and a Dominican citizenship law widely seen as discriminatory.

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.

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