Venezuela

Representatives of Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido have taken control of three of the country's diplomatic properties in the United States, Guaido's U.S. envoy said on March 18, as the opposition presses its bid to oust socialist President Nicolas Maduro.

Arreaza is on a bilateral visit to Serbia, where we was also received by a number of cabinet ministers, including Defense Minister Aleksandar Vulin.

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is planning a "deep restructuring" of his government, Vice President Delcy Rodriguez said on March 17, as the country recovers from a prolonged blackout amid a power struggle with the opposition.

Greece's left-wing Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is backing calls by Bolivia for a negotiated settlement to the severe political and financial crisis in Venezuela.

Bolivia's leftist President Evo Morales, a supporter of Venezuela's Nicolas Maduro, said in Athens on Friday that European nations should support a dialogue within the country.

Morales, who is on a visit to Greece, said meddling in the domestic affairs of another country never bodes well.

Bolivia's left-wing president on Thursday compared Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido to an erstwhile colonial viceroy and spoke out against any military intervention in the troubled country.

Much of Venezuela remained engulfed by darkness into early March 8 amid one of the largest power outages in years, a problem the government of President Nicolas Maduro blamed on "sabotage" at a hydroelectric dam that provides much of the country's power.

The case of the "mystery flight" of a Venezuelan government airplane to Athens on Saturday was raised in Parliament on Wednesday by main opposition New Democracy.

Venezuela's government expelled the German ambassador Daniel Kriener on March 6 two days after he and diplomats from other embassies welcomed home opposition leader Juan Guaido at the Caracas airport.

After premiering at the ongoing Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival, journalist Aris Hatzistefanou's documentary "Make the Economy Scream" is making its Athens debut at the Trianon cinema on Thursday, March 7.