Once a futuristic shopping mall, El Helicoide became one of Venezuela's most feared prisons. Now, as the country changes, so does its fate — erase it, rebuild it, or remember what happened inside.

Nearly 300 political prisoners held at El Rodeo I prison outside Caracas have launched a hunger strike in demanding their ...

GUATIRE, Venezuela -- Thousands of National Guard troops stormed a prison Friday seeking to disarm inmates days after a bloody riot, setting off gunfights with resisting inmates that left at least one ...

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela’s government on Sunday released from prison several prominent opposition members, including one of the closest allies of Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina ...

Families of Colombians imprisoned in Venezuela gathered at a Colombia-Venezuela bridge hoping to appeal for the release of their relatives during a meeting that never happened.

Relatives of Venezuelan prisoners went on hunger strike on Saturday to demand the freedom of their loved ones as politicians in the South American nation debate an amnesty law for dissidents ...

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Venezuela released 17 political prisoners on Saturday from a jail in the capital, Caracas, an AFP journalist saw, as a new ...

According to human rights organizations, the law passed by Parliament excludes hundreds of cases of people unjustly convicted for defending their social rights or for criticizing those in power.

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Opposition leader Juan Pablo Guanipa, a close ally of Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado, was among ...

James Luckey-Lange has been spending a lot of time looking at the names he carved on a bar of soap he smuggled out of a Venezuelan prison in his underwear. The 28-year-old New York native spent just ...

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