It was the early 90s, and Venezuela was in the mists of unprecedented political chaos. A group of high-ranking military ...

In November 1992, rebel military officers attempted a coup against the government of Venezuela. They were able to take control of almost all of military aircraft of the Venezuelan Air Force (FAV) and ...

In May, reports surfaced of a supposed failed coup against the Venezuelan government. Headlines called the event "Bay of Piglets," or "Keystone Coup," and footage released by the Venezuelan ...

The plan called for a group of 300 men to invade Venezuela from Colombia, raid military bases and ignite a popular rebellion that would end in Maduro’s arrest. They never stood a chance. The plot ...

Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro has accused the United States of plotting to blow up the presidential palace in an attempted coup. On Thursday, the South American country arrested a retired ...

"If not for resistance inside Venezuela, as well as from a number ... Maduro, in turn, blasted the move as a coup staged by Washington and said he was severing diplomatic ties with the US.

In Yvan Gil Pinto words, the involvement of criminal organizations for political purposes was "designed by the CIA of the United States" CARACAS, August 22. /TASS/. Venezuela’s ultra-right ...

He added, "If they kill me, my God, I don't fear for me, but for what comes after." A U.S. State Department spokesman denied involvement in any coup attempts in Venezuela or Bolivia.

Venezuela’s government has acknowledged for the first time that members of the country’s opposition left the Argentine diplomatic compound where they had sheltered for over a year CARACAS ...

Venezuela has a fraught recent history with the United States, marked by broken diplomatic relations, sanctions and accusations of criminal activity and coup-plotting. During his visit to Moscow ...

A group of 45 Venezuelan retired top officers among which ... they say “would not be a coup d’état’. The officers accuse the government of Maduro and former president Hugo Chavez of having ...

Caracas, Venezuela, April 12, 2006—Venezuelans commemorated the 4th anniversary of the April 11, 2002, coup d’etat, yesterday, with the unveiling of a monument to the victims at the Llaguno Bridge, ...