CARACAS, Venezuela — Jesús Armas spent 14 months inside El Helicoide, a notorious prison built on top of a massive rock in the center of the capital Caracas. One of the things that struck him the most ...

An Air Force officer guides an F-35A Lightning II pilot who joined the American military's Mission Impossible-like operation to capture Venezuelan "narco-terrorist" Nicolás Maduro from his fortified ...

The death toll from the mass poisoning this week of inmates at a Venezuelan jail has risen to 35, a lawmaker said Friday, though prison officials insisted the tally was far lower. The incident is the ...

A prison riot has left at least 47 dead and 75 wounded in western Venezuela, a country where NGOs and inmates’ families regularly denounce unsanitary conditions, violence and overcrowding behind bars.

GENEVA — The United Nations on Thursday voiced outrage at the deaths of 68 people when a fire engulfed police holding cells in Venezuela and urged Caracas to investigate the tragedy. “We are appalled ...

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — An Argentine who spent 448 days imprisoned in Venezuela called Friday for the international community to increase pressure on the government of interim Venezuelan President ...

Jan 22 (Reuters) - Rafael Tudares, the son-in-law of Venezuela's opposition leader Edmundo Gonzalez, was freed from prison on Thursday after a year behind bars, Tudares' wife said, the latest such ...

Once a futuristic shopping mall, El Helicoide became one of Venezuela's most feared prisons. Now, as the country changes, so does its fate —... From mall to torture site: Venezuela debates El ...