The Trump administration will impose sanctions on Venezuela's new vice president, Tareck El Aissami, and accuse him of playing a major role in international drug trafficking.

Venezuela’s justice minister says a diplomat from the Costa Rican embassy has been freed hours after he was seized by kidnappers.

Police and supporters of President Hugo Chavez clashed with students in cities across the country during protests over the government forcing an opposition channel off cable TV.

Venezuelan authorities have arrested two people suspected of plotting to kill Hugo Chavez by blowing up the president’s plane with an anti-tank weapon, the country’s top security official said.