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2025 in Venezuela

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Events in the year 2025 in Venezuela.

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January

February

March

  • 1 March – Guyana accuses the Venezuelan Navy of entering its territorial waters and harassing an offshore unit of ExxonMobil.[14]
  • 31 March – The government accuses the United States of revoking the operating licenses of several transnational oil and gas companies in Venezuela that were meant to provide exemptions on sanctions imposed by Washington on Caracas.[15]

May

  • 1 May – The International Court of Justice orders Venezuela to stop holding elections for officials to administer areas of Guyana that it claims as part of its territory.[16]
  • 7 May –
    • The United States announces the rescue of five Venezuelan opposition politicians who had been sheltering from authorities loyal to President Maduro in the Argentine embassy in Caracas since 2024.[17]
    • Venezuela signs a strategic partnership treaty with Russia.[18]
  • 19 May –
    • Venezuela orders a ban on flights from Colombia.[19]
    • The government announces the arrest of 38 people, including 17 foreign nationals, on suspicion of plotting against the government.[19]
  • 20 May – Joseph St. Clair, a former US Air Force serviceman imprisoned in Venezuela since November 2024, is released and repatriated following negotiations between the Maduro government and US special envoy Richard Grenell in Antigua and Barbuda.[20]
  • 23 May – Opposition politician Juan Pablo Guanipa is arrested on charges of conspiring to sabotage upcoming legislative and local elections.[21]
  • 25 May – 2025 Venezuelan parliamentary election: The ruling PSUV retains its majority in the National Assembly of Venezuela and all but one of 24 state governor positions on an official turnout of 42.66%.[22]

June

July

  • 1 July – The National Assembly declares Volker Türk, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, persona non grata, citing his failure to protect the rights of Venezuelan migrants deported by the United States to El Salvador.[28]
  • 18 July – Ten Americans held in Venezuela are released as part of an exchange with the United States that also sees the release of 252 Venezuelans deported from the US and detained in El Salvador.[29]
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