Recently released detainees like Godoy have described brutal conditions in interviews with the BBC. He is one of the hundreds of political prisoners arrested under President Nicolás Maduro and held in ...

GUANARE, Venezuela (AP) — Freedom came too late for Edilson Torres. The police officer was buried Tuesday in his humble, rural hometown following his death in a Venezuelan prison, where he was held ...

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 ...

Venezuela's "El Helicoide" was built back in the days of seemingly endless oil wealth and meant to be a flashy, space-age-looking shopping center. But this structure shaped like a three-sided pyramid ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — A 28-year-old Staten Island man whose family lost contact with him in early December was among several Americans released Tuesday from Venezuela’s prison system, according to the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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