The US government has dropped a false charge of assault against The Grayzone editor Max Blumenthal stemming from an incident at the Venezuelan embassy in May ... Read more »
The government of Venezuela has denounced the US invocation of a Cold War-era mutual defense treaty on behalf of the opposition ... Read more »
It remains unclear whether the new Venezuela Affairs Unit will facilitate talks with Caracas. Read more »
According to the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, the premises of embassies, consulates, and other diplomatic facilities are inviolable territory — no one permitted inside without head of mission permission. Read more »
Washington, DC—Four peace activists who remained in the Venezuelan embassy for 36 days were released from police custody on Friday afternoon, just over 24 hours after federal agents raided the embassy in... Read more »
Today, law enforcement agents broke into the Venezuelan Embassy in Washington, D.C., and arrested the four remaining members of the Embassy Protection Collective Read more »
Medea Benjamin writes from the Venezuelan Embassy in Washington D.C. about the efforts by Venezuelan right-wing forces to take over the embassy. Read more »