Donald Trump says Venezuela's embattled opposition leader must be protected, as President Nicolas Maduro prepares to take the oath again after allegedly stealing an election.

Venezuela closed its border with Colombia on Friday until next Monday after denouncing an "international conspiracy" just hours before leftist Nicolás Maduro is sworn in for a third consecutive term amid allegations of fraud by the opposition.

Nicolas Maduro is set to be inaugurated for a third term despite alleged vote fraud and international condemnation of his repressive tactics. His opponent was briefly detained at a protest on Thursday.

President Nicolás Maduro will be sworn in for another six years on Friday, and he is hoping to use foreign prisoners to get his way on the global stage.

Colombia hosts more Venezuelan migrants than any other country in the region. UNICEF is there, helping children and adolescents.

Colombia's Ambassador will attend Nicolás Maduro's inauguration amid criticism. Security tightens along the border as protests erupt worldwide against Maduro's regime. Venezuela issues arrest orders for nine former Latin American presidents,

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro will be sworn in for a third term Friday while hundreds of government opponents arrested since his disputed reelection last summer languish in the country's packed prisons.

Before María Corina Machado was arrested by Nicolás Maduro’s regime in Venezuela Thursday, her reemergence in public offered a powerful reminder of the opposition campaign she led this past summer. Her supporters handed her rosaries and shouted chants of “liberty” as she climbed to the top of a truck at an anti-Maduro rally and waved the nation’s flag.

Venezuelan migrant Mariangela Lozano longs for her homeland, but ahead of Friday's planned inauguration for President Nicolas Maduro's third term, she has begrudgingly opted to remain in Mexico and brave her meager living conditions.

A former U.S. Marine and a Florida man who were imprisoned in Venezuela have sued President Nicolás Maduro for allegedly heading a vast “criminal enterprise” that uses American citizens as bargaining chips in negotiations with the U.