Venezuela blames 'electromagnetic attack' for blackout
Large swathes of Venezuela remained without power on Tuesday, the day after the country suffered its fourth nationwide blackout this year.
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Large swathes of Venezuela remained without power on Tuesday, the day after the country suffered its fourth nationwide blackout this year.
Leading Venezuelan opposition figure Leopoldo Lopez claims he met high-ranking members of the Venezuelan security services while under house arrest.
CNN was taken off the air by the Venezuelan government on Tuesday moments after the network broadcast a feed that showed military vehicles running over protesters in Caracas.
Electricity slowly returned in most areas of Caracas on Saturday after Venezuela struggled through the third major blackout of March.
Most of Venezuela still had no power Friday evening, more than 20 hours after a massive outage left over 70% of the country without electricity.
The political momentum of Venezuela's opposition swelled Saturday with street protests in Caracas, while President Nicolas Maduro stood defiant in the face of domestic and international pressure against his rule.
The man who proclaimed himself acting Venezuelan president -- in open rebellion to President Nicolas Maduro's regime -- called on the nation's military Friday to work with him.
The US State Department on Thursday evening ordered all non-emergency government employees to depart Venezuela amid an ongoing diplomatic crisis in the country.
President Nicolas Maduro has decided to close Venezuela's embassy and all its consulates in the United States after the Trump administration recognized the opposition leader as president.
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Wednesday gave US diplomats 72 hours to leave the country in response to the head of the National Assembly declaring himself acting president amid massive anti-government protests.