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.

“I think that we’ve got to have a sincere, frank, open debate about the unnatural, inhuman cultural-communication model which the media has,” Maduro said in a speech last week, calling for the minister of communications to review content on TV broadcasts.

Maduro said he would propose that Puerto Rico join CELAC, a Latin American economic block initiated by Cuba in 2011, and declare its independence from the US.

Capriles, the governor of Miranda state and presidential contender in April 2013, met briefly at the Miraflores presidential palace on crime and insecurity. Tensions are high between the two since the elections.

Delcy Rodríguez, Venezuela's Minister of Communication and Information, wrote that while President Maduro spent the holidays in Venezuela "with the people", 27 members of the opposition went abroad.