Leopoldo López, Venezuela’s most famous political prisoner, brazenly defied the terms of his house arrest for months, the New York Times revealed in a profile Thursday – to cooperate with the writing of the profile itself.
Henri Falcón – a former governor, Hugo Chávez supporter, and the leader of the “Progressive Advance” party – has announced his candidacy in the illegitimate Venezuelan presidential election scheduled for April 22.
In an op-ed for the left-wing Time, actor Sean Penn blasted President Trump as an “enemy of mankind” and “an enemy of the state.”
Contents: Venezuela’s Socialism drives hundreds of thousands into Colombia; Venezuela threatens to end trade with Aruba, Curaçao and Bonaire
Contents: Socialist Venezuela may or may not have declared bankruptcy on Thursday; Socialist Venezuela may have reached the end of its economic road
Hot off the heels of the “largest electoral fraud in the history of Latin America,” Venezuela’s socialist dictatorship has done it again. Defying every major exit poll prior to Sunday, the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) secured 17 of the nation’s 23 governorships, with its losses in states like Táchira, governed by socialists who dared to criticize the regime.
Venezuela’s exiled former top prosecutor published a video Thursday that she alleges shows the head of Odebrecht, the Brazilian construction company embroiled in one of the largest corruption schemes in Latin American history, admitting to bribing dictator Nicolás Maduro by donating $35 million to his 2013 presidential campaign.
Contents: Russia considers taking on a huge financial burden – Venezuela; Maduro has ‘plans A, B and C’ if US imposes further sanctions
Contents: With Trump’s sanctions in place, Venezuela expected to go bankrupt soon; Analyst advises Venezuela to keep its assets safe from creditors; Maduro tells Venezuelans to breed and eat rabbits
A Venezuelan money laundering investigator currently seeking asylum in the United States claims his research has unveiled at least $800 billion of illicit funds have been laundered through Venezuela.
At least four children are dying every week of starvation in the socialist dictatorship of Venezuela, newspaper outlet El Nacional has reported.
Protests demanding an Obama-created amnesty program for young illegal aliens remain intact were sponsored George Soros-funded by open borders groups.
The Venezuelan Episcopal Conference (CEV) has publicly invoked the intercession of the Virgin Mary to free the nation “from the claws of communism,” in a clear reference to the regime of President Nicolás Maduro.
Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro accused the country’s private television networks of running a “terrorist campaign” against the government in the run-up to Sunday’s sham election.
Venezuelan Attorney General Luisa Ortega Diaz, a former loyalist to the late dictator Hugo Chávez, has charged the former head of the country’s national guard with “serious and systematic” human rights violations, her office announced on Thursday.
Labour’s hard-left leadership is using the fallout of the Grenfell Tower disaster to agitated for private homes of the wealthy to be seized while calling for a populist uprising to bring down the government, in tactics reminiscent of the Venezuelan socialist revolutionary Hugo Chavez.
In a major stand-off between Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro and the Catholic bishops of the country, both groups have appealed to Pope Francis for his support and mediation of the conflict.
As Venezuela enters year eighteen of the Bolivarian Socialist Revolution, the international community is finally paying attention, as Venezuelans struggle to find food, medicine, and an outlet for their frustration that will not trigger rampant state violence.
The latest triumph of socialist economics from Venezuela is a 64 percent devaluation of the national currency, setting the price of each crisp U.S. dollar bill at a staggering 2,010 bolivars.
Anti-socialist protesters in Venezuela’s Barinas state burned down the childhood home of late dictator Hugo Chávez on Monday, as well as the old home of his grandmother, and attacked a number of government buildings with Molotov cocktails.
U.S. intelligence officials have long been worried about the danger of Venezuelan military weapons falling into the hands of criminals or terrorists as the socialist country collapses.
Venezuela is in turmoil. Political confrontations continue on the streets of Caracas and other cities, with over 40 people killed in clashes with riot police in just the last few weeks.
Venezuelan exiles kicked a former banking minister under the Chavez regime out of a Miami-area bakery Sunday, according to a video.
The late Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez told a crowd at the University of Tehran in July 2006, “If the U.S. succeeds in consolidating its dominance, then humankind has no future. Therefore, we have to save humankind and put an end to the U.S.”
In a video circulating the globe, protesters in western Zulia state toppled a statue of late dictator Hugo Chávez, the latest such incident in a volatile Venezuela.
Nearly two decades of socialism has left oil-rich Venezuela in an unparalleled crisis.
Cuba is about to receive its first major Russian oil shipment of the 21st Century, because the collapsing socialist government of Venezuela can no longer meet Cuba’s needs.
A segment of MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show displayed a chyron implying the widespread anti-socialist protests in Venezuela were meant to protest President Donald Trump.
Venezuelan nationals in Paris have denounced far left presidential candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon who recently praised former Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.
An Associated Press (AP) “explainer” on the wave of protests in Venezuela this month omits the socialist government’s refusal to free prisoners of conscience, the rampant use of police brutality, and human rights violations against protesters in an attempt to explain the “economic” unrest in the nation.
Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro is giving guns to upwards of 400,000 of his supporters in hopes of squashing opponents’ demands for free and fair elections.
After Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro repeatedly referred to the anti-socialist opposition as “the antichrist,” the leader of Maduro’s party in the legislature posted a photo of Hugo Chávez on social media to celebrate Easter, with the caption “Christ is Chavista.”
Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-NY) claimed Saturday on MSNBC that President Donald Trump is using similar tactics as Russian President Vladimir Putin and former Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez in attacks against the press. “When we look at the threats that number 45 continues
Venezuela’s anti-socialist opposition coalition announced Thursday it would no longer participate in Vatican-sponsored talks with the dictatorship of Nicolás Maduro, noting that the government has been “arrogant and rude” and done nothing to advance the liberation of political prisoners or improve the economy.
Venezuelan Socialist Party Vice President Diosdado Cabello – the second most powerful socialist in the country – has flatly denied news reports of rampant looting and violence in Bolívar state, where police arrested hundreds for attacking markets, restaurants, convenience stores, and private residences.
A new report in Bloomberg reveals that U.S. authorities are investigating evidence suggesting that the socialist government of Venezuela paid Iran “hundreds of millions” as part of a money laundering scheme designed to avoid human rights sanctions imposed on the Islamic Republic.
Contents: Venezuela to print 20,000 Bolivar note as currency; Zimbabwe introduces a new currency, ‘bond notes’
CARACAS, Venezuela – Under the rule of charismatic revolutionary dictator Hugo Chávez, Venezuela positioned itself as the one of the world’s most prominent socialist ‘havens,’ with Chávez regularly expressing an extremely hostile approach to what he described as ‘US imperialism.’
Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro, protesting the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize going to neighboring head of state Juan Manuel Santos, has announced the launch of the “Hugo Chávez Award for Peace and Sovereignty of the Peoples.”
Members of the Venezuelan anti-socialist opposition are warning that the peace deal with the Marxist terror group FARC in neighboring Colombia could result in a flood of absolved terrorists looking to rebuild their operation in Venezuela, a nation already bludgeoned by the world’s highest inflation rate and a severe food shortage.
