Centeno is among more than 400 political prisoners released in Venezuela since January, according to the human rights group ...

James Luckey-Lange has been spending a lot of time looking at the names he carved on a bar of soap he smuggled out of a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Venezuelan human rights activist Javier Tarazona (right) reunites with his brother Jose Rafael Tarazona (left) and lawyer Omar de ...

In the aftermath of the capture of Venezuelan strongman Nicolas Maduro by U.S. forces last month hundreds of Venezuelan political prisoners have been released, many of them from detention centers that ...

He was released from prison on parole in a wheelchair, after spending more than four years locked up in a jail he walked into — on crutches, but walking nonetheless. He was arrested days after ...

GUANARE, Venezuela (AP) — Freedom came too late for Edilson Torres. The police officer was buried Tuesday in his humble, rural hometown following his death in a Venezuelan prison, where he was held ...

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Jesús Armas, a prominent Venezuelan opposition leader, who was – until recently – held at one ...

The move is among several measures the acting president has touted since Maduro’s capture – yet critics say it erases Venezuela’s long history of repression ...

The wife of a once-detained American citizen was released this week after being held for more than a year in a Venezuelan prison following their arrest while traveling to the South American nation to ...