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.

The latest in a series of protests of US immigration laws and deportation policies came on Sunday at the Otay Mesa border crossing near San Diego.

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.

Protesters in Washington D.C. are stepping up pressure on President Barack Obama and members of Congress to halt deportations.

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.

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

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

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.

Here are ten outrageous quotes that demonstrate the occasional madness of the charismatic leader, Hugo Chavez.

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

Venezuela will remember late head of state Hugo Chávez on Wednesday in a series of commemorative acts.

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

Authorities in Culiacán led a crackdown on Sunday on supporters of El Chapo who took to the streets to call for his release.

Nicolas Maduro has announced that Venezuela will be embarking on a week of events to commemorate the death of Hugo Chavez.

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.

The Venezuelan government responded sharply to Obama's denunciation of violence against opposition protestors, calling it a "new and crude interference in the internal affairs" of Venezuela.