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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 […]
A chip off the old block. Venezuela's President Maduro continues his Hugo Chavez-like antics when he called Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy a "hitman," prompting the Spanish government to once again summons the Venezuelan ambassador. The Spanish foreign ministry has summoned the Venezuelan ambassador to once again protest comments by Venezuela's president against Spanish Prime […]
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 […]
The UN's Food and Agriculture Organization has awarded Venezuela special recognition in its efforts to eradicate hunger. The award comes at an interesting time when Venezuelans by the millions are facing severe food and medicine shortages in the economically ravaged nation. Venezuelan Vice-President Jorge Arreaza accepted the award undocumented that the "Venezuelan Revolution" has invested […]
Yesterday, Venezuelan Dictator Nicolas Maduro linked the popular former president of Colombia, and fierce political rival of Hugo Chaves, Alvaro Uribe, to the murder of Venezuelan representative Robert Sierra. Sierra was assassinated in 2014, and Maduro in claiming that Julio Velez, right hand man to the former president, was the intellectual author of the murder. […]
The month of June began with yet another massive protest in Venezuela against what citizens are calling a "State of Tyranny". Yesterday morning the city of San Cristobal in the state of Tachira woke up to find a complete halt of all public transport. They did not simply park their cabs and busses and not […]
Just one day after Barack Obama officially removed Cuba from the State Sponsors of Terrorism list, Venezuelan's all over the world gathered to protest the repression of their rights and political imprisonments in the country that is Cuba's closest ally. Exiled Venezuelan political leaders took to a hastily made stage in from of the statue […]
Deadly protests calling for the resignation of socialist Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, continue as opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez was jailed on domestic terrorism charges against government. Lopez demanded that protesters keep up the pressure and protests against Maduro, who is accused of corruption, as well human rights violations. The Harvard educated, bilingual Lopez has been […]
By JAVIER MANJARRES It seems as if Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro and his 'Chavistas' have served up so much political excriment that may have just 'hit the fan,' as the country has run out of toilet paper. That is correct, Venezuela has run out of toilet paper. Just yesterday, Maduro's administration announced that it was […]
By JAVIER MANJARRES The ever-colorful Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro, who has recently said that the late Hugo Chavez appeared to him in the form of a bird, has publicly accused former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe of plotting to assassinate him. Maduro's past Friday televised addressed where he uttered his "Uribe is a killer" comment, followed […]
By JAVIER MANJARRES Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro, the man who said that the spirit of Hugo Chavez appeared to him in the form of a bird, has just “personally” ordered the arrest of a 35-year-old filmmaker for encouraging violence after Venezuela’s recent presidential election. Apparently, Maduro may have been visited by another “little bird” and […]
By JAVIER MANJARRES Venezuela's newly elected Socialist President, Nicholas Maduro, is reaching out to the United States and offering to re-engage in "respectful" talks between the two countries. Maduro blasted American lawmakers for interfering in the recent presidential elections, in which he narrowly beat opposition leader Henrique Capriles. Like Chavez, Maduro didn't seem to be […]
By JAVIER MANJARRES You can say what you want about Venezuela' newly elected Socialist President, Nicholas Maduro, but you got to give the man some credit for picking Alejandra Benitez to be his new sports minister. Benitez, who represented Venezuela in Fencing at the 2004, 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics games, has just posed nude […]
By JAVIER MANJARRES The Venezuelan Socialist regime of Hugo Chavez is up for re-election this weekend, but the fear that the election will not be "transparent" and fair to the Venezuelan people is weighing heavy on the minds of many onlookers, including U.S. Senator Marco Rubio. Early Saturday morning, Rubio put out a statement chiding […]
By JAVIER MANJARRES Univision investigations is reporting that Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro was closely working with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), who both Colombia and the United States acknowledge as being a terrorist organization. According to the report, the Venezuelan President's ties to the terror and drug-trafficking group were uncovered when the computer […]
By JAVIER MANJARRES It seems as if Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro is picking up right where his late mentor and friend President Hugo Chavez left off, when he equated Venezuela's opposition voice to the "heirs of Hitler." While there isn't record of Chavez calling any group of people "heirs of Hitler," Chavez was well documented […]
BY: JORGE BONILLA The Venezuelan presidential election, called after the confirmed death of strongman Hugo Chávez, is in full swing. The ruling United Socialist Venezuelan Party kicked off its 10-day campaign at a chat session/rally held at the Chávez family compound in Barinas. Watch as Caretaker President Nicolás Maduro describes today's encounter with Chávez, who […]
By JAVIER MANJARRES A vile of the deadly Guanarito virus has been misplaced or lost at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, Texas. The virus, which is described as being similar to the Ebola virus, originates in a particular rat indigenous to Venezuela, but is said to not be transferrable to U.S. rats […]
