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Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has hinted that the Venezuelan military could oust socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro as the country’s political, economic, and humanitarian crisis reaches devastating proportions. Speaking at the University of Texas ahead of his five-stop Latin America tour,

Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro debuted a logo for his upcoming presidential campaign that violates the nation’s electoral laws, and he illegally used public television to promote himself this weekend in anticipation of a presidential election few believe will yield legitimate results.

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.

Venezuela’s regime-controlled Supreme Court has banned the main opposition coalition from running in the upcoming presidential election.

The top lawmakers on a Senate panel, in a rare show of bipartisanship, urged the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to launch an investigation into “credible allegations” of drug trafficking activities linked to the regime of Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro that may be fueling the drug overdose epidemic in America.

Pro-socialist vandals targeted the walls of Venezuela’s Cumaná Cathedral and its surroundings with threatening anti-Catholic messages Tuesday night, referring to Cumaná’s archbishop as “Monsignor Satan” after dictator Nicolás Maduro targeted the clergyman in a television broadcast this week.

Venezuela’s monthly minimum wage is now under one dollar a month amid the worst economic and humanitarian crisis in the country’s history.

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

U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley condemned Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro on Friday for launching a new campaign against local Catholic leaders who use their pulpits to urge the government to seek peace and end violent repression of dissidents.

The latest report from the International Energy Agency finds American oil production at its highest level in 50 years and projects that it will surpass that of Saudi Arabia and Russia in 2018.

Venezuelans are increasingly buying and selling items of garbage as a means of survival as the country’s economic and humanitarian crisis continues to deepen.

The Colombian government has announced it will urge greater international action to resolve the crisis in Venezuela at the upcoming World Economic Forum in Davos.

A rogue Venezuelan helicopter pilot leading a resistance against the country’s socialist dictatorship is believed to have killed after a violent standoff with police on Monday.

Socialist Venezuela’s plastic surgery industry continues to thrive and attract tourists from nearby Brazil for cheap operations even as the country’s economic and humanitarian crisis continues to worsen.

Venezuela’s democratically elected National Assembly has outlawed the use of a national cryptocurrency known as the “petro” on Tuesday, describing it as an illegal attempt to mortgage the country’s oil reserves.

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The Venezuelan capital of Caracas is drowning in garbage after socialist officials dissolved the city government. There are reportedly no plans to restart basic municipal functions like collecting waste.

Venezuela’s socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro has raised his country’s minimum wage by a further 40 percent, meaning public sector employees will now earn around two dollars a month in his seventh and final major hike of 2017.

Authorities arrested a soldier in Venezuela’s Bolivarian National Guard for killing a pregnant woman in a queue for Christmas Eve pork rations, local media reported.

As much as the Islamic regime in Iran may deny it, a serious problem is on its hands. The new generation of Iranians seeking economic stability and individual freedom lost its fear last week, taking the streets by the thousands and chanting, “We don’t want an Islamic republic.”

Venezuela’s bolivar currency is quickly becoming worthless as foreign merchants and local businesses demand all payments in dollars.

Latin American politics for the past decade has been driven by a continental debate on the merits of socialism – a debate that, thanks to the devastating humanitarian situation in Venezuela, conservatives are increasingly poised to win.

Countries with appalling human rights records relished their moments in the spotlight Thursday, lambasting the U.S. for daring to move its Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.

Although Venezuela’s problems began with the election of the authoritarian left-wing revolutionary Hugo Chávez in 1998, 2017 was the year that the country’s problems became too catastrophic for even the world’s most ardent socialists to defend.

Place a temporary hold on U.S. funding for the United Nations except in the case of urgent humanitarian relief. Set up a committee to review all U.S. UN contributions.

Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro has gifted officers from the country’s national police force a $5 Christmas bonus, as well as an extended holiday to thank them for their loyalty to his socialist regime.

The New York Times published a major report on starvation under Nicolás Maduro’s socialist dictatorship this weekend after repeatedly taking huge sums of cash from the regime to publish their anti-American propaganda.

The Trump administration’s National Security Strategy (NSS) has pledged to further isolate rogue left-wing dictatorships in both Venezuela and Cuba and blamed powers such as China and Russia for helping them survive.

Venezuelan socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro’s nephews have been sentenced to 18 years in a U.S. prison on drug trafficking charges.

A Venezuelan artist has finally found a use for his country’s bolivar currency in the form of art canvases, local website Venezuela al Día revealed.

Joshua Holt, an American citizen detained in Venezuela on charges his family and witnesses insist are false, has reportedly endured a long-term infection and received little medical care in the mall-turned-prison the socialist nation uses to torture political dissidents.

Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro will attend an emergency meeting of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in Turkey Wednesday on the Muslim world’s response to President Donald Trump’s declaration that the U.S. would acknowledge Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.

A one-year-old girl was reportedly raped to death in the Venezuelan state of Zulia this week in another shocking tale of violence to come out the collapsed socialist state.

Venezuela’s socialist leader Nicolás Maduro has ruled that the main opposition parties can no longer stand in next year’s presidential election, the latest in a series of anti-democratic moves by his regime.

The leftist governments of Latin America — including Venezuela, Cuba, Ecuador, and Bolivia — have all issued statements condemning American President Donald Trump for officially recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.

One of China’s largest state-owned companies has filed a lawsuit against the Venezuelan state-run oil firm Petroleum of Venezuela (PDSVA) over their failure to pay their debt, the Financial Times first reported.