3 days ago - The presidency was disputed between Juan Guaidó and Nicolás Maduro from January 2019 to 2023 during the Venezuelan presidential crisis. Maduro was elected to his first term in 2013 but received backlash from opposing Venezuelans and some members ...

4 hours ago - Prior to his presidency, he served as the vice president of Venezuela under President Hugo Chávez from 2012 to 2013, and as minister of foreign affairs from 2006 to 2012. Initially a bus driver, Maduro rose to become a trade union leader before being elected to the National Assembly in 2000.

5 days ago - On 3 January 2026, the United States captured then-president Nicolás Maduro, as well as his wife Cilia Flores, and extracted them from the country. As a result, Delcy Rodríguez became the acting president. Rodríguez is the current acting president. As a self described republic with a ...

4 hours ago - When Venezuela’s interim president, Delcy Rodríguez, gave her first State of the Union address last week, she maintained a delicate balance between anti-American rhetoric and the new reality.

Since January 10, 2019, the presidency has been a topic of disagreement between Juan Guaidó and Nicolás Maduro. This is part of the ongoing Venezuelan presidential crisis. Maduro was first elected in 2013.

Chavez’s leadership and the shipment ... of any condemnation of Venezuela in the Organization of American States. Thanks to that legacy, part of the Latin American left still refuses to condemn the Maduro regime. Just days before he became president in 1999, Hugo Chavez was ...

On August 18, 2017, the NCA voted unanimously to assume the powers of the National Assembly. The Canadian government imposed economic sanctions (assets freezes and travel bans) against President Maduro and 39 other Venezuelans on September 22, 2017. Regional elections were held on October 15, 2017, and the ruling Great Patriotic Pole (GPP) won 18 out of 23 governorships throughout the country.

September 18, 2003 - Hugo Chavez was president of Venezuela (1999–2013) who styled himself as the leader of the socialist Bolivarian Revolution.

6 days ago - Who she is: Venezuela’s top opposition leader and Nobel Prize laureate · Portfolio: Machado has spent her career trying to unseat the ruling party and decrying abuses by Maduro’s government, which accuses her of treason. Why she matters: Machado swept the opposition primary ahead of the 2024 presidential elections before Maduro’s government barred her from running in the general election.

April 9, 2013 - Nicolas Maduro is a politician who succeeded Hugo Chavez as president of Venezuela in 2013 upon Chavez’s death. As world oil prices fell and the collapse of the Venezuelan economy was accompanied by widespread shortages of food and medicine, ...

1 day ago - Chávez and his supporters later founded a political party, the Fifth Republic Movement (MVR – Movimiento Quinta República) in July 1997 to support Chávez's candidacy in the 1998 presidential election. Chávez went on a tour around the country. On his tours, he met Marisabel Rodríguez, who would give birth to their daughter shortly before becoming his second wife in 1997. At the start of the election run-up, front runner Irene Sáez was backed by one of Venezuela's two primary political parties, Copei.

2 days ago - Officials in the Trump administration had contact with Cabello months before the operation to seize Maduro and have also been in communication with him since, four sources familiar with the matter told Reuters, warning him against using the security services or colectivos to target the opposition. Cabello, who was jailed in Venezuela for backing eventual socialist President Hugo Chavez in a failed 1992 coup, is under indictment in the U.S.

April 11, 2019 - In 2006 he was appointed to be the foreign minister. In 2012, the then-President Hugo Chavez appointed him as the vice president. After the death of the president in 2013, he served as the interim president.

1 week ago - On 14 April 2013, Nicolás Maduro was elected President of Venezuela, narrowly defeating opposition candidate Henrique Capriles with just a popular vote lead of 1.5%. Capriles immediately demanded a recount, refusing to recognize the outcome ...

2 weeks ago - Judge Alvin Hellerstein, 92, interjected to tell Maduro that there would be a "time and a place to get into all of this". Who is Venezuela's new interim president, Delcy Rodríguez?

2 weeks ago - As the foreign minister, she fiercely defended far-left Maduro's image amid international scrutiny for violating human rights and threatening democracy. She also accused governments of the United Nations of trying to undermine Venezuela in this role. In 2017, Rodriguez became the president of the Constituent National Assembly, which expanded the government's powers following the opposition party's 2015 victory in the legislative elections.

July 26, 1999 - Venezuela - The presidency of Nicolás Maduro: The death of Chávez elevated Vice Pres. Nicolás Maduro to the presidency. A special election to choose a president to serve out the remainder of Chávez’s six-year term was held on April 14 between Maduro, who Chávez had indicated was his ...