The head of Venezuela’s national assembly said last week that a “significant number" of Venezuelan and foreigners imprisoned in the country would be released as a gesture to “seek peace.”

Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner María Corina Machado met with Pope Leo XIV in a private audience at the Vatican on Monday. The meeting, which hadn't been previously included in the list of Leo's planned appointments, was later listed by the Vatican in its daily bulletin, without adding details.

It is here, in Venezuela’s El Helicoide prison, that the inmates are strung up, beaten, raped and left with bags of excrement over their heads for hours. In one torture method known as “the Russian” or “white torture”, prisoners are crammed into a tiny windowless cell painted completely white with bright lights that are never turned off.

Thousands of prisoners in California go before the Board of Parole Hearings each year in hopes of a chance at freedom. It's a daunting situation that deals in high stakes for all involved.

A CRUMBLING corkscrew-like structure spiralling up a hill in Venezuela’s Caracas is where Nicolas Maduros’ political opposition were “hung up like dead fish” to be

Alberto Trentini and Mario Burlo, Italian political prisoners held in Venezuela, arrived back in Italy on January 13 after being released the day before.Footage released by Giorgia Meloni, Prime Minister of Italy,

The more than 67,200 prisoners in the country, according to data from World Prison Brief and the Venezuelan Prison Observatory, were the last to find out about a heart-stopping week that, inside Venezuelan prisons, arrived in slow motion. Sign up for our weekly newsletter to get more English-language news coverage from EL PAÍS USA Edition