The Venezuelan president promises period of peace and prosperity as the opposition and US continue to reject his rule.

CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro was sworn in for a third ... As Miriam Lara waited for a bus leaving Caracas on Friday morning, she expressed a feeling of hopelessness.

Chavez personally anointed Mr Maduro, a former bus driver, as his chosen successor as he was dying from cancer in 2012. He has since presided over 12 years of economic collapse and the brutal ...

Maduro was sent to communist Cuba in 1986 for a year of ideological instruction — his only studies after high school. Upon returning home, he found work as a bus driver and union organizer.

Maduro is a former bus driver hand-picked by the late socialist icon Hugo Chavez to succeed him upon his death in 2013. He has overseen the oil-rich country's decline into economic ruin and been ...

Maduro is a former bus driver hand-picked by the late socialist icon Hugo Chaves to succeed him upon his death in 2013. Maduro has overseen the oil-rich country's decline into economic ruin and ...