Venezuelans on Sunday for the first time elected a governor and other lawmakers for Essequibo, an oil-rich region that ...

In Sunday’s election, President Nicolás Maduro has called to elect a governor of Essequibo — a region that actually belongs ...

Venezuela's ruling party is celebrating what it has described as "an overwhelming victory" in regional and parliamentary ...

The State Department says elections called by Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro to elect a governor and legislators for the ...

Instead its “governor” was chosen by a few voters in Venezuela’s Bolívar state, across the border. When the new legislative ...

Venezuela’s ruling coalition, led by President Nicolas Maduro, has won the parliamentary and regional elections by a landslide, maintaining a significant majority in the powerful National ...

Boycotting elections often contributes to greater authoritarian control and deepens divisions within the opposition.

Divisions in Venezuela's opposition were laid bare Monday as it counted the cost of a ballot boycott that allowed ...

VENEZUELA’S “desperation and fakeness” was called out by governing People’s Progressive Party (PPP) General Secretary Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo, who rejected the ...

Some in the opposition say the only way to protest is to abstain. Others say doing so will let the government “say they won ...

Venezuela’s ruling coalition secures a big win in parliamentary and regional elections boycotted by the opposition.

The election is the latest provocation in a long-running territory dispute between Venezuela and Guyana. It comes more than a year after Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro ordered the creation ...