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Italian citizens Alberto Trentini and Mario Burlò recounted their harrowing experiences after spending over a year as political prisoners of the Venezuelan socialist regime.

A group of at least 15 Venezuelan teenagers was slapped with dubious “treason” charges for allegedly celebrating the downfall of socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro, the outlet Runrunes reported.

Denmark provided U.S. forces support as they intercepted an oil tanker for violations of sanctions, a Danish government official confirmed.

A group of Venezuelans and Venezuelan-Americans gathered on Monday outside the White House to thank President Donald Trump for approving a mission to arrest now-deposed socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro, who terrorized the Venezuelan people for over a decade.

Delcy Rodríguez, the “acting President” of Venezuela, on Tuesday reiterated she is “in charge” of the ruling socialist regime after President Donald Trump published a meme listing him as “Acting President” of the country.

Two Chinese oil supertankers on their way to pick up Venezuelan oil made U-turns and headed back to Asia, reports indicate.

Granma, the newspaper of the Communist Party of Cuba, published a compilation of purported “social media comments” threatening Americans.

Argentina repaid the $2.5 billion it drew down from a $20 billion swap line that President Javier Milei signed with the administration of President Donald Trump, Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent announced over the weekend.

Venezuela’s socialist regime released a new group of at least 24 political prisoners during the early morning hours of Monday, the non-government organization Foro Penal announced.

The Vatican announced on Monday that Pope Leo XIV held a surprise in-person meeting with Nobel Peace Prize winner and anti-socialist Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado shortly before she is expected to meet with President Donald Trump.

A group of 50 U.S. Marines will begin a six-week long joint training program in Panama alongside local military officials Monday, local outlets reported.

The American embassy in Bogotá, Colombia – the closest operating near Venezuela – warned this weekend of reports of roving socialist gangs known as “colectivos” hunting American citizens or those deemed to be “supportive” of the United States.

Sandro Castro, grandson of late Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, on Sunday night published a bizarre video of himself dancing to the “Not War, Yes Peace” remix song featuring deposed Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro’s “English” messages to the U.S.

Sam Nunberg, a long-time former adviser to President Donald Trump, described the United States’ capture of Venezuela’s deposed dictator, Nicolás Maduro, as the “boldest action taken by a president in the western hemisphere.”

Columbian songwriter and pop sensation Yeison Jiménez died in a horrifying plane crash, along with his entire band, just hours before they were scheduled to perform at a show Saturday, the Special Administrative Unit of Civil Aeronautics (SAUCA) said in a statement. Jiménez was 34.

President Donald Trump announced during a meeting with executives of top oil companies that U.S. oil companies will invest $100 billion to rebuild Venezuela’s oil infrastructure.

Cuban External Affairs Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla attended a ceremony in Caracas, Venezuela, on Thursday to honor the 32 Cuban Communist Party agents killed during the arrest of deposed dictator Nicolás Maduro last week.

U.S. forces boarded and seized a “ghost tanker” in the waters of the Caribbean on Friday as part of the Trump administration’s continuing effort to target sanctioned oil ships traveling to and from Venezuela.

President Donald Trump meets with the executives of oil and gas companies on Friday, January 9.

DHS has identified the two Venezuelan illegal migrant gang members shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer in Portland.

Acting Venezuelan President Delcy Rodríguez met with China’s ambassador to the country, Lan Hu, on Thursday, in an effort to reassure the chavistas’ communist patrons that their prime position in Venezuelan politics would be respected following the arrest of longtime dictator Nicolás Maduro.

Venezuela’s socialist regime released Thursday night a minimal number of the more than 800 political prisoners it presently maintains.

Over 30 Nicaraguans have been detained by local law enforcement for celebrating the capture of deposed Venezuelan socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro, the newspaper La Prensa reported on Friday.

President Donald Trump advocated for taking oil as a cost of liberating a country in the chapter “Take The Oil” of his 2011 bestselling book “Time to Get Tough: Making America #1 Again.”

President Donald Trump told Fox News host Sean Hannity on Thursday he is planning to meet Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado in Washington next week.

Venezuelan Interior Minister — and long-suspected drug lord — Diosdado Cabello on Thursday warned the socialist regime has the “monopoly on weapons” in the country in what appears to be a new show of strength from the strongman.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said at a press conference in Washington, DC, on Wednesday that Venezuela’s economy must be stabilized, and a process of political reconciliation completed, before a successor to deposed narco-terrorist dictator Nicolás Maduro can be chosen through free and fair elections.

Former first lady of Brazil Michelle Bolsonaro told reporters on Wednesday that she saw her husband Jair Bolsonaro “asking God to take him, because he couldn’t take the pain anymore” during a recent medical examination following a fall that left him with a head injury.

Wednesday’s seizure of a rogue Russian-flagged tanker in the North Atlantic marked a significant escalation of U.S. efforts to shut down the dangerous “shadow fleet” of sanctions-defying invisible ships created by Russia, China, Iran, and other hostile powers – a fleet that poses serious threats to the environment, maritime safety, legitimate global shipping, and the world’s economic security.

The Cuban Communist Party’s cable news network aired a commentary this week claiming that continued Castro regime control was a “guarantee for the national security of the United States.”

Venezuelan Interior Minister — and long-suspected drug lord — Diosdado Cabello appeared defiant on the latest episode of his socialist show Con el Mazo Dando (“Hitting with the Mallet”), calling for unity against the “threats to the homeland.”

President Donald Trump revealed on Wednesday evening that he held a conversation with radical Marxist Colombian President Gustavo Petro and invited him to the White House — while an anti-Trump protest organized by Petro was underway in Bogotá.

Leaders of a farmer’s union arrested as tractors overwhelm police roadblocks to drive into centre of Paris to protest a forthcoming EU deal.

Venezuela’s state-owned oil company PDVSA announced on Wednesday it is now holding negotiations with the United States for the sale of oil to America.