Venezuela

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Trump administration seeks long-overdue justice for my homeland Venezuela

Daniel Di Martino · March 27, 2020 4:13 pm

Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro addresses supporters after the National Electoral Council said he was re-elected for a second six-year term at the presidential palace in Caracas, Venezuela, Sunday, May 20, 2018.

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Venezuela’s Maduro is proof of how socialism enables authoritarianism

Kaylee McGhee White · March 26, 2020 8:03 pm

Nicolas Maduro announced that he is increasing Venezuela's minimum wage by 40%. But seeing as Venezuela's inflation rate already increased by at least 1,000% last year, Maduro's gambit is only likely to increase the already-catastrophic suffering of his people.

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Nicolas Maduro indictment rightly closes door on any Venezuela compromise

Tom Rogan · March 26, 2020 4:27 pm

Nicolas Maduro announced that he is increasing Venezuela's minimum wage by 40%. But seeing as Venezuela's inflation rate already increased by at least 1,000% last year, Maduro's gambit is only likely to increase the already-catastrophic suffering of his people.

DOJ charges Venezuela’s Maduro with narcoterrorism

Jerry Dunleavy · March 26, 2020 3:28 pm

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Spain needs NATO assistance and a burden-sharing reality check

Tom Rogan · March 26, 2020 9:38 am

Shelves are emptied of paper toilet and product supplies at a Safeway store in Phoenix, Ariz., Sunday, March 15, 2020.

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Price controls sabotaging American coronavirus response like they destroyed my home in Venezuela

Daniel Di Martino · March 18, 2020 3:37 pm

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro speaks to journalist during a press conference at Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas, Venezuela, Friday, Feb. 14, 2020. Venezuela is demanding that Washington stop piling on punishing financial sanctions aimed at forcing a regime change in Venezuela. The international court must next decide whether it will open an investigation.

Nicolas Maduro: Women ‘should have six children’ amid economic crisis

Zach Halaschak · March 4, 2020 8:58 pm

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., gestures while speaking at George Washington University in Washington, Wednesday, June 12, 2019, on his policy of democratic socialism, the economic philosophy that has guided his political career.

Cuban and Venezuelan Floridians come out swinging against Bernie Sanders after his Castro defense

Emma Colton · February 28, 2020 8:44 pm

UN study finds 1 in 3 Venezuelans facing hunger

Madison Dibble · February 24, 2020 10:58 am

Colombian Defense Minister Carlos Holmes Trujillo at a Pentagon press briefing Feb. 7, 2020 with U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper.

Terror in South America: Iran and Hezbollah threaten the region, insiders say

Abraham Mahshie · February 21, 2020 5:01 am

‘More steps and further pressure’ as US looks to ‘hurt’ Maduro regime

Katherine Doyle · February 18, 2020 8:50 pm

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, back to camera, listens to Rosneft Russian oil giant chief Igor Sechin during a meeting in the Gorky residence outside Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2019.

Trump slaps sanctions on Russian energy company for helping Venezuela's Nicolas Maduro

Tim Pearce · February 18, 2020 8:02 pm