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Back on Jan. 23rd, U.S. President Donald Trump officially recognized Juan Guaidó as Venezuela's legitimate interim president and promised to "use the full weight of United States economic and diplomatic power to press for the restoration of Venezuelan democracy", and now other nations are following suit Ten European Union nations have followed the United States […]
On Thursday, Senator Marco Rubio issued a comment via his Twitter account that identified Noor Capital, a financial firm based in the United Arab Emirates as attempting to facilitate a gold transaction with Venezuelan authorities.
Multiple media outlets are covering the mysterious activity surrounding a Russian-based Boeing 777 aircraft operated by Nordwind Airlines that unexpectedly landed in Caracas, Venezuela from Moscow on Tuesday. Noticias Venezuela reported that the plane had made the trip with only an unidentified crew aboard. Nordwind Airlines does not offer direct Moscow-Caracas flights, and speculation is […]
“Hopefully, the Chavez-Maduro nightmare is nearing its end.”
"The Maduro regime has lost all legitimacy and support from the Venezuelan people."
Democrat Freshman Congresswoman Debbie Mucarsel-Powell is teaming up with fellow Democrats Debbie Wasserman Schultz, freshman Congresswoman Donna Shalala and Eliot Engel, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, to bring light to the illegitimacy of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduros’ new term and any future plans he has to introduce legislation for the Venezuelan people. Congresswoman […]
The ongoing tussle between the governments of Colombian and Venezuela continues, as Colombia is now saying that a Venezuelan aircraft entered into Colombian airspace without permission. Venezuela is denying that this incident happened, and it's Foreign Minister Delcy Rodriguez said that this was just one of a string of "invented incidents" by the Colombians to […]
Controversy continues to swirl around Venezuela President Nicholas Maduro's true birth place. Many Colombians believe that Maduro was born in Colombia, and not in Venezuela. A Univision news segment conducted in the Colombian city of Cucuta, interviews several resident who remember, and knew a very young Maduro as one of the inhabitants of a corner […]
Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro says that he will not reopen the border between Venezuela and Colombia until the Colombian government stops "attacking" his country's economy, and until the drug smuggling and crime he alleges is crossing over from Colombia is stopped. Maduro closed down the border between the two countries to keep out paramilitary and […]
Over the past 11 months, at least 8 people have been jailed in Venezuela, according to Fox News Latino. The arrests come as street confrontations between students demanding free speech and government forces have been raging for years. Fox News lists the arrested opposition: Lessi Marcano (48), Ginette Hernández (23), Leonel Sánchez (47), Víctor Ugas […]
In Venezuela,food shortages have been come a part of daily life. People make lines which can take 5 hours or more in order to get into a grocery store. What's on their shopping list? Whatever the store has. Now, the Maduro regime in a stopgap measure to deal with the regime created shortages, has ordered […]
As if the rights of the people in Venezuela were not under enough trouble, the government, which has turned Venezuela into the most dangerous country in the world by working side by side with armed gangs (collectivos), has now deemed it a worthy endeavor to go after personal property rights. They've been going after business […]
The Venezuela economy has been in a downward spiral for years now. But over the past year, the rate of inflation has skyrocketed. The Venezuelan currency, as a practical matter, is controlled by the government in a complex and nonsensical system of exchange controls. This has given birth to a huge black market for both […]
Bob Corker, who last year opposed the sanctions pushed by the US Senate against the Venezuelan government is right now in Venezuela for a "fact finding mission". The trip comes on the back of a State Department meeting with Diosdado Cabello in Haiti, as the Obama administration seeks to "thaw" diplomatic relations with the socialist […]
After massive protests, hunger strikes, and massive amounts of inflammatory political rhetoric, the Venezuelan electoral body, the CNE (Consejo Nacional Electoral), has finally set a date for parliamentary elections. The CNE, which has for a long time been known to be an "ally" of the dictatorship, announced the election date of December 6th, and an […]
Last week, the Obama administration held a high level meeting with, alleged drug kingpin, Diosdado Cabello in Haiti. Now, Venezuela's president, Nicolas Maduro, has said that the meetings could "full;le restore diplomatic relations". According to FoxNews Latino: During a national television address Monday night, he said the two countries were now working "to normalize diplomatic […]
As the Obama administration moved full speed ahead with its plan to re-establish relations with the communist regime in Cuba, it is also looking to court Cuba's closets ally, Venezuela. In a contradictory move, Obama administration officials met with Venezuelan officials in Haiti over the weekend. Venezuela was sanctioned by Obama in march, and declared […]
Florida's junior Senator and 2016 Presidential hopeful, Marco Rubio, has called the Obama administration's meeting with Diosdado Cabello "Bizarre and confusing". In a press release, The Senator condemns the administration for meeting with one of Venezuela's "most corrupt officials. By meeting with the Venezuelan regime's most corrupt official, who also happens to be under investigation […]
Venezuela, which has the largest proven oil reserves in the World, it attempting to bully its tiny next door neighbor, Guyana, for a well discovered by the Exxon-Mobil corporation in the Essequibo off-shore region. Venezuela has had a territorial dispute with the tiny country since the early 19th century. In fact, Venezuelan school houses to this […]
The Chavista government of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has blocked former Prime Minister of Spain, Felipe Gonzalez, from visiting with that governments jailed opposition leaders, Leopoldo Lopez and Daniel Ceballos. Juan Carlos Gutiérrez, attorney for the opposition leader Leopoldo López, told EFE that González had asked permission to visit López and another defendant, Daniel Ceballos. […]
Less than a week after Venezuela was awarded by the UN's FAO for "helping to eradicate hunger", the world was shown exactly how hungry and desperate most Venezuelans are. After a Nestle truck carrying cereal and condensed milk wrecked on the Gran Mariscal de Ayacucho highway, leaving three injured and one dead, people rushed to the accident […]
