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Venezuela's President Nicolás Maduro has vowed to defeat a "crazed minority" that wants to remove him from power.

Venezuela's opposition leader Juan Guaido defied the threat of arrest to return home on Monday, arriving at Caracas international airport where he was met by cheering supporters, television footage showed.

As Venezuela’s deadly crisis sinks to new lows, the man responsible for it has been blasted over these chilling photos.

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has announced he is closing the border with Brazil on Thursday night as a row over foreign humanitarian aid continues.

US President Donald Trump has appealed directly to the Venezuela military to abandon their support for President Nicolás Maduro.

US military planes carrying humanitarian aid for Venezuela have arrived in the Colombian border town of Cucuta.

Donald Trump will be responsible for a bloodbath that would mirror the war in Vietnam if he gets militarily involved in Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro has warned, describing the potential conflict as a “David against Goliath” scenario.

Guaido was speaking from his Caracas home where earlier on Thursday agents from a feared special police unit turned up to ask for his wife, a sign of increasing pressure Maduro is putting on the opposition.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has authorized Venezuelan opposition leader and self-declared interim president, Juan Guaido, to take control of US-held assets belonging to the country’s government.

Leader of National Assembly, 35, has long been an anti-government activist

'We need a transitional government and free elections,' says opposition leader Juan Guaido

However, roughly 20 foreign diplomats from the United States, Canada, Japan, Italy and Germany attended the assembly's inaugural session in a show of solidarity.

Venezuela has officially launched what its President Nicolas Maduro claims is a first state-backed oil-backed cryptocurrency, El Petro.

The National's Adrienne Arsenault is at the Venezuela-Colombia border to see how police are trying to protect vulnerable Venezuelans from smugglers and stem the flow of illegal trade. 5:47

Addressing the nation on television, Venezuela's Interior Minister and the Commander-General of the National Guard, Nestor Reverol, noted that so far there weren't any reports of victims.

Venezuela came to a standstill on Tuesday as the country tried to deal with its newly introduced currency.

Brazil's President Michel Temer called an emergency meeting of key ministers Sunday after ordering troops to the border with Venezuela as regional tensions build over the exodus from its crisis-hit neighbor.

Venezuelan authorities say they have arrested 14 more people in connection with an alleged attempt to assassinate President Nicolas Maduro.

 

AMID the financial and humanitarian crisis in Venezuela, the country expects to see hyperinflation reach one million per cent.

VENEZUELAN authorities have arrested six people suspected in Saturday’s failed attack on President Nicolas Maduro with two explosives-laden drones.