TEHRAN, November 30 - President Nicolas Maduro on Thursday increased Venezuela's minimum wage by 150 percent, the sixth readjustment this year, as part of an economic reform plan that has failed to curb rampant inflation.
TEHRAN, October 12 - Socialist Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro accused the Trump administration on Thursday of seeking to assassinate him, as relations strain between the ideologically opposed nations.
TEHRAN, October 06 - Thousands of Venezuelans have taken part in a pro-government rally in the streets of the nation’s capital Caracas to express support for President Nicolas Maduro and censure US-backed efforts to topple his administration and destabilize the Central American country.
TEHRAN, September 28 - Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said on Thursday that U.N. human rights chief Michelle Bachelet was welcome to visit any time after she urged Caracas to allow an international investigation of the humanitarian situation in the country.
TEHRAN, September 13 - Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is traveling to China to discuss economic agreements, as the crisis-struck OPEC nation seeks to convince its key Asian financier to disburse fresh loans.
TEHRAN, August 18 - Caracas has launched in February its own Petro cryptocurrency backed by the country's oil reserves amid country's severe economic meltdown. Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said Friday night that the country would create a single exchange rate that would be linked to petro.
TEHRAN, August 8 - Exiled Venezuelan opposition leader Julio Borges has denounced a purported assassination bid on President Nicolas Maduro involving an explosives-laden drone as a staged "farce."
TEHRAN, August 6 - Iran has condemned the assassination attempt on Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, saying the failed bid was aimed at spreading insecurity and instability in the South American country.
TEHRAN, June 28 - Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Wednesday called U.S. Vice President Mike Pence a "viper" and vowed to defeat what he called Washington's attempts to force him from power.
TEHRAN, June 16 -Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has accused his Colombian counterpart Juan Manuel Santos of trying to start an “armed conflict” between the two neighbors and draw a US intervention.
TEHRAN, June 15 - Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro named a new vice president Thursday in a leadership shuffle that he said sets the stage for a "new start" to his second term overseeing the crisis-rocked country.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has commended the recent "successful, peaceful and sound" presidential election in Venezuela, saying it was a "great victory" for the Latin American government and nation.
TEHRAN, May 16 - Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro on Wednesday dismissed the threat of new sanctions following an early election called for Sunday.
TEHRAN, March 18 -At each other’s throats for two decades, militants of Venezuela’s socialist state and opposition seldom agree on anything. Yet mention the name of presidential candidate Henri Falcon, and both are liable to spit.
TEHRAN, February 25 -Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro promised on Saturday to recover 70 percent of the country’s lost oil production in the first half of 2018.