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.

“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.