María Corina Machado said that, if passed, the law could be used to "forcefully disappear" her and her team

Election registration was meant to start on March 18 and will run for a month, before the July 28 vote in which President Nicolas Maduro is seeking a third term.

Analysts say it is President Nicolas Maduro who will reap the spoils. The 61-year-old is seeking a third term in power which would see him rule for a total of 18 years.

With popular leader Maria Corina Machado banned from public office, the plan had been to register another stand-in candidate, 80-year-old university professor Corina Yoris.

María Corina Machado says Professor Corina Yaris will replace her as the presidential candidate of the main opposition alliance

The presidential hopeful says the arrests show the government's "deep-seated weakness"

The UN also warned of "serious difficulties" in ensuring the reliability of the upcoming presidential elections

An unclassified report says the leader is unlikely to lose given his "control of state institutions that influence the electoral process," among other reasons

Henrique Capriles called for "an alternative" to the candidacy of María Corina Machado, who won a primary election but is banned from running

Maduro, 61, has not made any announcement himself, but has been widely expected to seek reelection in a vote from which his main opposition challenger has been barred from running.

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Venezuela made the decision after the UN Office voiced concerns over the detention of a human rights advocate.

Prosecutor General Tarek William Saab said Rocío San Miguel was involved in a "conspiracy scheme" with that purpose

The country's political scene has been further shaken up during these past weeks as the main opposition leader continues to be banned from running

Maduro assured that the inflation will be two digits this year, adding that state oil company PDVSA contributed $6.23 billion to Vanezuela's coffers in 2023.

A news dispatch reported that, in exchange, Venezuela will free some, if not all 10 U.S. citizens still imprisoned in Venezuela

Tension has soared over Essequibo, which has historically been controlled by Guyana, since Maduro's government held a controversial referendum last weekend in which 95 percent of voters supported declaring Venezuela its rightful owner, according to official results.

The long-running dispute over Essequibo, which comprises some two-thirds of Guyanese territory, has intensified since ExxonMobil discovered oil there in 2015.

Even though the voting is not binding, tensions are running high between the countries given the rhetoric by Maduro's government

With 65 percent of ballots counted so far, Machado had won 92.6 percent of the votes, according to the commission which organized the election.

The measure comes weeks after the Biden administration granted legal status to almost half a million Venezuelan migrants.

Beijing has close relations with the internationally isolated oil-rich nation and is one of Caracas's main creditors. China has backed Venezuela's warnings against what it calls foreign interference in the country, whose economy has been wracked for years by crisis.

The new chief executive of Venezuela's state oil company has announced an oil export freeze as they try to look into the company's cashflow problem.

Teachers and other workers in Venezuela are protesting around the country on Monday to call for the Nicolas Maduro administration to increase their salaries to a "living wage."

The Venezuelan government on Monday has issued arrest warrants against the three new leaders of the opposition for charges of treason, as it continues to fight against President Nicolas Maduro's administration.

After the Venezuelan opposition voted to dissolve the interim government and push Juan Guaidó out as its president, the embassy in Washington, D.C. has officially closed on Friday.

Juan Guaidó, the Venezuelan opposition leader who led the 'interim government' that was recognized mostly by the U.S, was voted out by the opposition on Friday.

A U.S. judge on Friday denied a plea for diplomatic immunity from businessman Alex Saab Moran, a close ally of Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro.

An official in the incoming administration of President-elect Lula da Silva announced on Wednesday that Brazil will be restoring diplomatic ties with Venezuela and its president, Nicolas Maduro.

Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro announced that he will fully open the land borders between his country and Colombia after months of warm relations.