President Nicolás Maduro will be sworn in for another six years on Friday, and he is hoping to use foreign prisoners to get his way on the global stage.

Venezuela closed its border with Colombia on Friday ahead of President Nicolas Maduro's inauguration, the governor of a frontier state said, citing an "international conspiracy".

Venezuela’s opposition said its banned leader María Corina Machado was detained after she emerged from hiding to join thousands of Venezuelans protesting against Nicolás Maduro’s planned inauguration after what they say is a fraudulent reelection.

As Nicolás Maduro assumes another six-year mandate as Venezuela’s president, he will solidify Venezuela’s position as a regional crime hub.

Colombia hosts more Venezuelan migrants than any other country in the region. UNICEF is there, helping children and adolescents.

Venezuelan opposition parties and NGOs decried the arrests of a prominent press freedom activist and a well-known opposition figure, among others, ahead of planned protests against Friday's inauguration of President Nicolas Maduro for his third term.

Opposition leader María Corina Machado seeks to draw out protesters to prevent a power grab by strongman President Nicolás Maduro.

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro will be sworn in for a third term Friday while hundreds of government opponents arrested since his disputed reelection last summer languish in the country's packed prisons.

A former U.S. Marine and a Florida man who were imprisoned in Venezuela have sued President Nicolás Maduro for allegedly heading a vast “criminal enterprise” that uses American citizens as bargaining chips in negotiations with the U.

Before María Corina Machado was arrested by Nicolás Maduro’s regime in Venezuela Thursday, her reemergence in public offered a powerful reminder of the opposition campaign she led this past summer. Her supporters handed her rosaries and shouted chants of “liberty” as she climbed to the top of a truck at an anti-Maduro rally and waved the nation’s flag.

Venezuelan migrant Mariangela Lozano longs for her homeland, but ahead of Friday's planned inauguration for President Nicolas Maduro's third term, she has begrudgingly opted to remain in Mexico and brave her meager living conditions.