Report: Venezuela Made over $8 Billion on Drug Trafficking in 2024
Drug trafficking generated more than $8.2 billion in Venezuela in 2024, according to a report published by the non-government organization Transparencia Venezuela on Wednesday.

Drug trafficking generated more than $8.2 billion in Venezuela in 2024, according to a report published by the non-government organization Transparencia Venezuela on Wednesday.

Dictator of Venezuela Nicolás Maduro claimed his regime “will not rest” until it rescues the Venezuelans “kidnapped” by El Salvador.

Venezuela’s socialist regime on Sunday condemned President Donald Trump’s use of the 1798 Alien Enemies Act to deport suspected members of the Tren de Aragua terrorist organization, comparing it to “slavery” and “Nazi concentration camps.”

Venezuela will resume accepting U.S. deportation flights on Friday — days after socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro suspended them.

Nicolás Maduro said his regime will not accept further deportation flights of Venezuelan deportees after President Donald Trump cancelled a Biden-era oil license.

Guyana announced on Thursday that it issued an urgent request to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to stop neighboring Venezuela from holding a sham election for governor of “Guayana Esequiba,” a purported new state that the socialist regime intends to carve out in the contested Essequibo region.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detained Rafael Jose Quero Silva, a Venezuelan ex-military official living in the U.S. accused of repressing and torturing students protesting against socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro, El Nuevo Herald reported on Sunday.

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado denounced on Thursday that unknown individuals attempted to break into her home in Caracas a day after she participated in an interview with Donald Trump Jr.

Venezuela’s socialist regime criticized President Donald Trump’s decision to revoke an oil license granted by former President Joe Biden.

Brazil’s Air Force announced that it shot down a plane allegedly carrying drugs that illegally entered its airspace from Venezuela, killing two pilots.

Bolivia must pay $2 billion plus interest to Chinese and Russian companies building lithium processing plants in the country, the Bolivian newspaper El Deber reported on Wednesday, even though Bolivia already offered them preferential extraction rights.

Attorney General of Venezuela Tarek William Saab said he would file a complaint in the U.S. against the Venezuela opposition for misuse of USAID funds.

Venezuelan non-governmental organization Foro Penal on Wednesday published a list of the names of the six American men who returned home last week as a result of negotiations led by President Donald Trump.

Far-left President of Colombia Gustavo Petro once again called for the legalization of cocaine and claimed it is “not worse than whiskey” during a disastrous six-hour-long meeting on Tuesday evening with his cabinet of ministers that the government broadcast live.

Six American citizens, unjustly detained by Venezuela’s socialist Maduro regime between September and October, returned home this weekend after negotiations led by President Donald Trump.

On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher stated that younger people have fallen into a dangerous level of self-loathing about America and a significant part of this is because older generations “read about Communism and socialism” and
Colombian Army officials found weapons belonging to Venezuela’s National Bolivarian Armed Forces (FANB) in a camp of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) Marxist terrorist group, local outlets reported on Thursday.

Far-left President of Colombia Gustavo Petro said on Wednesday that he will stop using Twitter (or “X”) after he caused an hours-long diplomatic crisis with the United States by refusing to accept a deportation flight and disparaging Colombia’s longtime ally in a post published at nearly 4:00 a.m. local time.

Conservative former President of Colombia Álvaro Uribe Vélez helped defuse a short-lived diplomatic crisis between Colombia and the United States caused by far-left President Gustavo Petro on Sunday, The New York Times reported on Monday.

Politicians across the political spectrum in Colombia panned far-left President Gustavo Petro’s short-lived “trade war” with President Donald Trump and are calling for his impeachment and urging Congress to investigate his actions.

Colombia announced late on Sunday that it would send Foreign Minister Luis Gilberto Murillo and an emergency delegation to Washington.

Socialist dictator of Venezuela Nicolás Maduro warned on Thursday that the South American nation is in constant preparation for an “armed struggle” to defend “democracy and peace” ahead of a purported invasion against his authoritarian regime.

Heads of state and officials from Latin America’s leftist governments and authoritarian regimes issued statements this week marking the start of President Donald Trump’s second term, condemning Trump’s firm stance against authoritarianism.

The 55th annual World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, has long been seen as a major globalist event, but this year the leaders of the world’s most powerful nations are skipping the meeting.

California-based company Chevron filed tax returns worth about $300 million to the Venezuelan socialist regime, raising questions about how much dictator Nicolás Maduro benefits from Chevron’s oil production despite existing oil sanctions, Bloomberg reported on Thursday.

Socialist dictator of Venezuela Nicolás Maduro threatened to use Brazilian troops to “liberate” Puerto Rico from the United States’ “colonization” in remarks this weekend.

The socialist government of Brazil, notorious for its online censorship campaigns, gave Facebook parent company Meta a 72-hour deadline this weekend to provide “explanations” on its decision to scrap its third party “fact check” system, known for its left-leaning bias.

The socialist regime in Venezuela briefly detained opposition leader María Corina Machado amid gunshots on Thursday after she made her first public appearance in months.

The regimes of Iran and Venezuela signed a deal for the establishment of an Iranian drone development facility in Venezuela, the Argentine outlet Infobae reported on Friday.

Socialist dictator of Venezuela Nicolás Maduro claimed on Wednesday that one of the American citizens his regime took hostage recently on allegations of being a “mercenary” is a “senior FBI official” working to topple his regime.

Socialist dictator of Venezuela Nicolás Maduro announced Tuesday the arrest of two “important American mercenaries.”

Iranian engineers, whose “operational negligence” allegedly caused an oil spill in one of Venezuela’s main refineries in November, helped the socialist regime there cover up the accident, the Argentine outlet Infobae revealed on Tuesday.

Two American citizens filed a lawsuit against Venezuela’s socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro at a Miami federal court accusing the dictator of leading a vast “criminal enterprise” and using unjustly imprisoned Americans as bargaining chips in negotiations with the U.S., the Associated Press (AP) reported on Monday.

Exiled Venezuelan opposition presidential candidate Edmundo González is slated to meet with outgoing U.S. President Joe Biden on Monday, the Spanish news agency EFE reported.

Socialist former President of Argentina Alberto Fernández filed a formal request on Thursday to rescind the authorization that allows his two-year old son Francisco to reside in Spain with his ex-wife and former first lady Fabiola Yáñez.

Venezuela’s socialist regime on Thursday announced a $100,000 bounty for information leading to the capture of exiled opposition presidential candidate Edmundo González.

Cindy Vargas, the woman allegedly trafficked and raped by socialist former President Evo Morales when she was a child, resurfaced in an interview this week after going missing for months, claiming the socialist government of Bolivia is persecuting her.

Venezuela’s socialist regime and the Venezuelan opposition will each hold presidential inauguration ceremonies in Caracas on January 10, 2025 for the two men they claim are both president: longtime dictator Nicolás Maduro and opposition candidate Edmundo González.

The leftist governments of Latin America will begin 2025 with their once-vaunted unity strained and with many facing its own share of controversies at home.

Argentine Security Minister Patricia Bullrich filed a formal complaint on Thursday against Oscar Laborde, a leftist former diplomat believed to hold ties with the Venezuelan socialist Maduro regime, for engaging in talks with the Venezuelan socialists over an Argentine gendarme arrested in Caracas.
