Struggling to survive a socialist economy lacking everything from basic maternity goods to cancer drugs, Venezuelans have begun trading at “medical flea markets” outside of the control of the government, where they receive no guarantee the drugs will actually work.
The health crisis in socialist Venezuela is now reaching apocalyptic proportions as hospitals and pharmacies have just a fraction of the medicine and resources required to give people adequate medical treatment.
North Korea’s ambassador to Venezuela, Ri Sung Gil, offered the fellow leftist nation financial advice at a discussion hosted by the Central Bank of Venezuela (BCV) last week. On Monday, North Korean state media praised Venezuela for showcasing works complimentary of the tyrannical Kim family at a recent book fair.
A Cuban state media outlet confirmed last week that the nation’s capital, Havana, is suffering significant shortages of toilet paper. While the absence of common goods in the communist nation is not uncommon, such acknowledgment of a problem is rare.
Venezuela’s socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro has announced the introduction of a new oil-based cryptocurrency to help restore the country’s collapsed economy.
The State Department called on the socialist regime in Venezuela to release Joshua Holt on Tuesday, a 25-year-old U.S. citizen whose health has deteriorated considerably in the year and a half that he has spent behind bars on highly suspicious charges of weapons stockpiling.
Authorities in Venezuela have arrested two key officials from the company’s state-run oil company on alleged corruption charges, as socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro continues to tighten his grip on the industry and the country as a whole.
The minimum wage in the socialist country of Venezuela has crashed to under $2 a month as hyperinflation continues to shatter the country’s economy.
The Venezuelan military is set to take control of the company’s troubled state oil company after socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro appointed a leading military general to take charge.
Venezuela’s left-leaning opposition has agreed to enter talks with the country’s governing dictatorship in a bid to open a humanitarian channel into a country quickly descending into total dysfunction. The announcement was made by the opposing coalition, known as the Democratic
In the run-up to the 2016 presidential election, Democrats and left-wing media sought to portray Donald Trump as the anti-Latino candidate. However, his record in office speaks otherwise. Since his inauguration in January, the Trump administration has consistently sought to promote
Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL) says Cuba plays a major role in Latin America’s growing security challenges in an increasingly globalized world.
Recently escaped mayor of Caracas Antonio Ledezma has claimed that Venezuela’s socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro is now “weaker than ever” as his country continues to crumble around him.
The rightful mayor of Caracas Antonio Ledezma escaped from house arrest in Venezuela on Friday, the country’s latest politician to flee the country amid rising levels of political persecution.
WASHINGTON, DC — Socialist Venezuela is quietly fueling the proliferation of an expanding “clandestine jihadist network,” consisting of tens of thousands of Hezbollah affiliated Syrians, Lebanese, and Iraqis, allowing them to establish a stronghold in the South American region from where they can potentially infiltrate the U.S., warns an expert.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry has signaled that it will not offer a debt relief package to Venezuela, yet China reiterated confidence that the Maduro regime will pay off their debt.
Venezuela’s former Chavista attorney general Luisa Ortega Díaz appeared at the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Thursday to provide evidence against the Maduro regime of crimes against humanity.
A retired Venezuelan general revealed that the socialist government has hired nearly 93,000 Cubans to import Fidel Castro’s ill-fated communism experiment, a testament to Cuba’s massive intervention in the South Amercian country.
In another extraordinary outburst, Venezuela’s socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro accused Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos of drug-trafficking despite substantial evidence his regime sells huge quantities of narcotics itself.
The United States ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley described Venezuela as an “increasingly violent narco-state” at a Security Council meeting that Venezuela and other allies boycotted.
The European Union approved sanctions and an arms embargo against Venezuela on Monday in an attempt to deter the country’s rapid descent into dictatorship.
The monthly minimum wage in the socialist country of Venezuela has crashed to under four dollars a month as hyperinflation continues to crush the country’s shattered economy.
Russia has thrown the collapsing socialist state of Venezuela a lifeline by offering to restructure the $3 billion debt owed to them.
Venezuela’s socialist dictatorship has passed a law “against hatred and fascism” as the regime seeks to further silence its political opponents.
“America for the Americans” was a fundamental piece of the foreign policy of the United States in relation to Latin America since President James Monroe announced it in 1823, when his country lacked the resources and military to enforce it vis-à-vis imperial European powers.
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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.
Authorities in Venezuela have arrested and detained over 77,000 people throughout the course of 2017 as a result of skyrocketing rates of crime and political dissent amid the country’s political, economic, and humanitarian crises.
A Venezuelan man killed a teenager and successfully sold his body parts as salted rodent meat, local media has reported.
The socialist country of Venezuela is likely to default on its debt in the coming days as two critical debt repayments rapidly approach their deadlines.
The Venezuelan opposition coalition is continuing to fracture after leader Henrique Capriles Radonski said he would no longer work with Henry Ramos Allup, a socialist member of the anti-Maduro coalition.
Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro has appointed four ‘protectors’ to monitor opposition governors in the states where his ruling socialist regime failed to win top regional positions during last weekend’s regional elections.
Steve Bannon on Monday slammed the foreign policy establishment during a keynote address at an event in Washington, where most of the other speakers and audience members represented those very members of the foreign policy elite.
Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro has hit back against the United States and President Donald Trump, describing Venezuela as a “free, democratic country” whose people would “never accept” a dictator.
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.
Opposition leaders in Venezuela have alleged fraud after electoral authorities claimed that Nicolás Maduro’s socialist party won 17 of 24 governorships in Sunday’s regional elections.
Just a few months ago, amid a worsening humanitarian crisis and the prospect of an illegal power grab, Venezuela’s anti-government protests had reached a tipping point. In April, the opposition coalition announced daily protests against the socialist government led by Nicolás Maduro, leading to street
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.
The State Department has expressed concern over the possibility of electoral fraud during this weekend’s gubernatorial elections in Venezuela, as Nicolás Maduro’s socialist regime refuses to allow foreign electoral observers.
A global observance of Shabbat with hundreds of special events being held in local Jewish communities around the world — including new events in Togo, Mozambique and Venezuela — is slated for Oct. 27-28.
