Ángel Godoy's family smuggled a message to him inside the wrapper of a chocolate bar In a small flat in a social housing complex near Caracas, Adriana Briceño holds up what looks like a piece of ...

CARACAS, April 22, 2026 (BSS/AFP) - At least five inmates died in a riot at a maximum security prison in Venezuela, officials ...

Venezuela's "El Helicoide" was built back in the days of seemingly endless oil wealth and meant to be a flashy, space-age-looking shopping center. But this structure shaped like a three-sided pyramid ...

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 ...

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela’s government on Sunday released from prison several prominent opposition members, including one of the closest allies of Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina ...

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 Venezuelan prison in his underwear. The 28-year-old New York native spent just ...

El Helicoide is a facility and prison owned by the Venezuelan government and used for both regular and political prisoners of the Bolivarian National Intelligence ...