At least one dead and nearly 500 arrested in South American country’s worst violence in years

Embattled president says armed forces united behind him as arrest warrant issued for opposition figure

Continuing attempts to remove Venezuela’s president spark increase in US-Russia tensions

Gunfire exchanged between men accompanying Guaidó and soldiers loyal to president Nicolás Maduro

Guaidó’s appearance with soldiers sparks mass mobilisation of opposition supporters

Press freedom has suffered since Juan Guaidó’s challenge to president, says watchdog

Outage comes amid tensions with US after Russian ‘cybersecurity personnel’ arrive

Hunt for saboteurs as much about galvanising regime as swerving responsibility

Hospitals struggle to keep equipment running as power outages continue for sixth day

Government blames ‘sabotage’ by ideological adversaries for failure at hydroelectrical plant

Efforts to bring supplies into country frustrated as military refuses to let convoys in

Infighting, policy clashes and Venezuelan crisis leave leftist party in near-chaos

Decrepit refineries and illegal exports create shortages amid US sanctions over Maduro

Few Cuban doctors obtained under Chavez deal left amid medic and drug shortage

With rampant inflation and food shortages, starving Venezuelans flee for sustenance

Activists suspect Nicolás Maduro has tasked Faes with pacifying Caracas’s barrios

Rival for presidency, Guaidó, says 300,000 will die if aid does not reach them ‘urgently’

Spain, France, Germany and UK raise pressure on Maduro as Ireland declines to follow

In the absence of dialogue all eyes remain on a military that is both compromised and discontent

President says Trump risks turning country into ‘new Vietnam’ ahead of further protests

US measures trigger higher global oil prices and angry responses from China and Russia

Blow to struggling oil industry may make Venezuela look to China and Russia for aid

Russian-supplied weaponry demonstrated in face of international call to rerun election

President Maduro’s efforts to withdraw $1.2bn in gold blocked by US, say reports

Question of which leader prevails may depend in large part on country’s armed forces

Venezuelans must determine their political future, based on their own democratic sovereignty

World leaders split over power struggle in crisis-stricken South American country

Venezuela’s economy in ruins after disastrous experiment in Chávez’s ‘21st Century Socialism’

Dramatic heave against Nicolás Maduro is a result of economic and political meltdown

Opposition leader has been backed by US president Donald Trump

Juan Guaidó names himself interim leader amid protests against Nicolás Maduro

EU nations and US among 50 countries condemning president’s term as illegitimate

There were people in Ireland too who would not endorse the leadership of the Taoiseach Leo Varadkar, SF president said

Re-election of Venezuelan president denounced as illegitimate at home and abroad

Opposition parties call for strike as president claims ‘process of recovery’ has begun

Nicaraguan leader is last in generation of Latin American revolutionaries clinging to power

Maduro claims US link to blast; national security adviser John Bolton denies US role

Ivan Duque and Gustavo Petro represent opposite ends of country’s political spectrum

Implosion of once-rich South American country rapidly becoming regional disaster

Iran-born banker who was sueing murdered journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia now in custody in US