Venezuela crisis

Gusmary Añez sits in a tent with two of her children. She and her husband, along with their four children, had been sleeping outdoors in Maicao, a Colombian town near the Venezuelan border. Now they live in one of 60 tents at the camp that house more tha

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Venezuelans Find Temporary Lifeline At Colombia's First Border Tent Camp

4:55pm May 02, 2019

by John Otis

The United Nations refugee agency set up a facility in Maicao near the Venezuelan border, providing help for more than 300 migrants. The facility aims to expand to meet the growing need.

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Marianne Menjivar heads the International Rescue Committee's Colombia office. She says Venezuela's crisis has made family planning impossible.

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Chronicles Of A Venezuelan Exodus: More Families Flee The Crisis On Foot Every Day

1:18pm April 04, 2019

An All Things Considered team recently traveled along a common Colombian route taken by Venezuelans fleeing crisis in their country and discovered dramatic stories of an expanding exodus.

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Venezuela's power grid crashed on March 7, 2019, throwing almost all of the oil-rich nation's 30 million residents into chaos for nearly a week.

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'New York Times' Journalist Describes An 'Almost Unimaginable' Crisis In Venezuela

10:50am April 03, 2019

by Dave Davies

New York Times reporter Nicholas Casey was in Maracaibo, Venezuela, in March 2019 during a six-day power outage. "By the fourth day," he says, "you started to hear shots getting fired in the street."

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A woman holds a placard reading "We Want Water and Electricity" as she shouts slogans during a protest in Caracas, Venezuela, about a lack of water and electric service during a new power outage in the country on Sunday. President Nicolás Maduro announce

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Venezuela's Maduro Institutes Plan To Ration Electricity As Outages Spur More Protest

11:16pm April 01, 2019

by Vanessa Romo

The president pleaded with the public to remain calm and resist violence as the country's top "specialists, scientists and hackers" work to put an end to power, water and communications blackouts.

Former Venezuelan special forces official Williams Cancino in a park in the Colombian town of Villa del Rosario, near a hotel where others like him are being sheltered by the Colombian authorities. He says he is waiting for an order to launch a revolution

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'Time To Act': Venezuelans Who Fled To Colombia Are Eager To Oust Maduro

11:39pm March 29, 2019

Tensions are building at Colombia's border with Venezuela, where former Venezuelan forces and migrants are taking refuge. Many are eager for a revolution back home.

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Venezuela's President Nicolás Maduro sings the national anthem during an anti-imperialist rally for peace, in Caracas, Venezuela, on Saturday.

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Venezuela's Maduro Faces Pressure From Much Of The World, Yet He Persists

8:25pm March 25, 2019

by Philip Reeves

The U.S. has hit Venezuela's oil sector and government associates with sanctions and has rallied behind opposition leader Juan Guaidó, yet President Nicolás Maduro persists.

Harry Solano, 36, a sergeant in Venezuela's National Guard, recently fled to Colombia.

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1,000 Venezuelan Armed Forces Have Fled Across Border, Says Colombian Government

4:45pm March 21, 2019

by John Otis

Those service members who have escaped amount to less than 1 percent of the Venezuelan military, but they now pledge allegiance to Juan Guaidó as their country's president.

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Smoke billows from aid trucks set on fire on the Francisco de Paula Santander International Bridge between Colombia and Venezuela, on Feb. 23.

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Reporter's Notebook: Africa Holds Lessons For Venezuela

10:00am March 09, 2019

by Eyder Peralta

Based in Nairobi, Kenya, Eyder Peralta usually covers Africa for NPR. After reporting recently in Venezuela, he describes parallels he saw with popular movements facing government repression.

People try to salvage humanitarian aid after the truck carrying it was set ablaze on the Francisco de Paula Santander International Bridge between Colombia and Venezuela, on Feb. 23.

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'We're Leaving Out Of Necessity': Venezuelans Top List Of Asylum-Seekers In Spain

8:34am March 06, 2019

by Lucia Benavides

Spain has recorded more than 255,000 Venezuelans living in the country, with estimates even higher, as families flee the South American country in deep crisis.

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U.S. soldiers direct traffic outside the residence of the Peruvian ambassador to Panama, right rear, in Panama City on Jan. 9, 1990. In December 1989, U.S. President George H.W. Bush sent thousands of troops to Panama to arrest the country's leader, Manue

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Trump's Venezuela Moves Follow Long History Of Intervention In Latin America

5:37pm February 22, 2019

History suggests that if the U.S. takes too large a role in the South American country's crisis, it could spark a worse backlash than the original issue, experts and former diplomats warn.

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