Venezuela Crisis - Page 2

Venezuela’s leading state prosecutor Tarek William Saab has claimed that the neighboring country of Colombia is planning a “military invasion” as the country’s humanitarian and political crisis continues to worsen.

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has left for a week-long tour of Latin America, where he will seek to promote the Trump administration’s foreign policy agenda and shore up U.S. alliances in the region.

A Venezuelan baseball star has died from a bout of pneumonia after failing to receive adequate medical treatment amid the country’s deepening humanitarian crisis.

Over half a million Venezuelans have now migrated to Colombia amid their country’s worsening political, economic, and humanitarian crisis, Colombian migration authorities revealed.

The recently exiled mayor of Caracas, Antonio Ledezma, claimed on Tuesday that Venezuela’s dictator, Nicolás Maduro is starting to lose the support of the military, the sole apparatus keeping his socialist regime intact.

Growing numbers of young girls in Venezuela are selling their bodies for sex in exchange for food as the crisis-stricken country’s humanitarian crisis continues to worsen.

Two Venezuelan medical students were arrested by authorities for photographing the dire conditions at a hospital in Barquisimeto, Lara state, as the country’s humanitarian crisis continues to worsen.

Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro will not attend a United Nations Human Rights Council, amid worldwide condemnation of his regime’s systematic human rights abuses.

The price of fresh vegetables in Venezuela has risen by nearly 600 percent in recent months amid the country’s skyrocketing inflation and worsening humanitarian crisis, according to a report from El Nacional.

The U.S. State Department has accused Venezuela’s socialist regime of instigating “another rupture in Venezuela’s constitutional order” after its illegal lawmaking body began proceedings to put its political opponents on trial for treason.

Venezuelan authorities broadcasted a raid on the home of former Prosecutor General Luisa Ortega Díaz, hours after she confirmed that she would present evidence of widespread corruption on the part of top government officials.

Venezuelan exiles in Miami have urged Vice President Mike Pence to lobby the administration to provide migratory permits to Venezuelans fleeing their country in fear of political persecution.

Nearly 20,000 Venezuelans have emigrated to the small Caribbean island nation of the Dominican Republic amid the country’s worsening economic, political, and humanitarian crisis, Dominican officials have revealed.

Further protests are taking place in Venezuela over increasing shortages of medicine, causing thousands of preventable deaths, the Associated Press has reported.

Photos from inside Venezuela have shown people participating in mass looting as a means of survival, including stealing entire vending machines and carrying them through the streets.

A 14-year-old boy was “run over and tortured” by an armored vehicle driven by the Venezuelan National Guard in the city of Mérida, according to opposition politician José Manuel Olivares.

Venezuela’s opposition-controlled parliament has rejected a state of emergency that President Nicolas Maduro decreed over a nation suffering from food shortages and a crumbling economy.

The situation in Venezuela has been steadily declining in the past couple of years, but in the past few weeks, it has become so dire and disturbing that scenes coming out of the socialist country are said to mirror the apocalypse.