Jésus Armas, a prominent opposition leader, has been in prison in Caracas for the past year. With the country in turmoil, his mother worries about his fate.

Trump's remarks came a day after Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado accused Rodríguez of being responsible for systematic torture ...

The huge futuristic spiral known as El Helicoide has a reputation as the country’s worst torture center. It has become a “dark site” where different Venezuelan police forces have their headquarters, ...

El Helicoide was meant as a symbol of Venezuela's ambitions fuelled by oil riches In the centre of the Venezuelan capital Caracas, an extraordinary space-age building towers over the sprawling slums ...

Among the small houses on a hill in Caracas, Venezuela, the massive Helicoide looks otherworldly — or, at the very least, out of place. The spaceship-like building was planned as a drive-thru mall.

BOGOTÁ, Colombia — After being tortured and brutalized during 129 days at El Helicoide, Venezuela's most notorious jail for dissidents, human rights activist Víctor Navarro was determined to expose ...

Perhaps modeling what would be the architectural icon of your country’s capital off the infamous Tower of Babel isn’t the best idea. But it wasn’t superstition that brought down the gargantuan spiral ...

In a 2007 book on El Helicoide, a state-of-the-art mall planned for 1950s Caracas, German-Venezuelan architect Dirk Bornhorst writes, "The whole construction was conceived as an artistic urban ...

The huge futuristic spiral known as El Helicoide has a reputation as the country’s worst torture center. It has become a “dark site” where different Venezuelan police forces have their headquarters, ...

In the centre of the Venezuelan capital Caracas, an extraordinary space-age building towers over the sprawling slums below. El Helicoide was once the symbol of a rich and promising nation. Today, it ...

In the centre of the Venezuelan capital Caracas, an extraordinary space-age building towers over the sprawling slums below. El Helicoide was once the symbol of a rich and promising nation. Today, it ...