Biden Admin Hints at More Sanctions Relief for Venezuela After Election Talks Disaster
U.S. acting ambassador to Colombia Francisco Palmieri said the Biden administration is, once again, willing to ease sanctions on Venezuela.
U.S. acting ambassador to Colombia Francisco Palmieri said the Biden administration is, once again, willing to ease sanctions on Venezuela.
The administration of U.S. President Joe Biden reinstated oil and gas sanctions on Venezuela on Thursday, a recognition that lifting the sanctions did nothing to entice the socialist regime to host a free and fair election.
The government of Argentina condemned the socialist regime of Venezuela on Tuesday evening for cutting the power and water supply to the Argentine ambassador’s official residence in Caracas.
Venezuela’s National Electoral Council (CNE) did not allow the Venezuelan Unitary Platform opposition coalition to register the candidacy of Corina Yoris for the upcoming July presidential election.
The United Nations Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (FFMV) warned on Wednesday that the socialist Maduro regime is enacting a “more violent” repression against dissidents ahead of the upcoming July 28 sham presidential election.
Venezuelan opposition frontrunner candidate María Corina Machado is facing increased pressure from her alleged allies to choose a replacement who can run against socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro in the upcoming July sham presidential election, according to a report published by Reuters on Thursday.
Biden diplomat Brian Nichols said incentives granted to Venezuela’s socialist regime were “not sufficient” to convince it to have an election.
Venezuela’s National Electoral Center (CNE), controlled entirely by the ruling socialist regime, announced on Tuesday that the South American country will hold its next sham presidential election on July 28 — the date of late dictator Hugo Chávez’s birthday.
The United States reportedly hopes that Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva will use his “influence” to help Venezuela.
Venezuela’s María Corina Machado said that a mob of socialists attacked her campaign event, beating her supporters “with sticks and stones.”
The United States is urging Venezuela’s neighboring countries to help build bridges between socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro and the Venezuelan opposition after Maduro torched a dubious deal brokered by the White House, Bloomberg reported this weekend.
Venezuela’s socialist dictator, Nicolás Maduro, accused the Venezuelan “opposition” on Wednesday of being “terrorists and extremists” who operate “outside the Constitution and the law.”
NSC Coordinator for Strategic Communications John Kirby gave socialist Venezuela a deadline of April to commit to a “free and fair” presidential election in remarks on Monday, threatening the restoration of oil and gas sanctions lifted by U.S. President Joe Biden.
Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro declared on Thursday that the deal signed between his socialist regime and the Venezuelan “opposition” to hold a “free and fair” 2024 presidential election was “mortally wounded,” implying the cancelation of the election.
Venezuela’s socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro ordered the activation on Tuesday of a security operation branded “Bolivarian Fury.”
CARACAS, Venezuela — The socialist regime will hold a presidential election sometime during the second half of 2024.
The Venezuelan socialist regime arrested opposition members, along with an American, accusing them of “treason” and “conspiracy.”
It only took the socialist Maduro regime a few days, a crooked “opposition” lawmaker, and a rigged court ruling to remind everyone that as long as it is in power, there will be no such thing as a free and fair election in Venezuela.
Venezuela’s Supreme Justice Tribunal issued a ruling that suspends “all of the effects” of the “opposition” primary election on October 22.
The government of Spain announced on Monday that it is planning to urge the European Union to lift sanctions on socialist Venezuela during the next E.U. ministerial meeting, a response to leftist American President Joe Biden doing the same.
Socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro declared on Monday that the primary election held by the Venezuelan opposition on Sunday was a “fraud” and part of a “coup” plot against him.
CARACAS, Venezuela — Former lawmaker María Corina Machado obtained an overwhelming majority of the votes cast in the opposition’s Sunday primary election as of tallies available on Monday, making her the expected nominee-elect to run against socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro in a 2024 presidential election.
CARACAS, Venezuela — The administration of American President Joe Biden is holding talks with socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro that could lead to a temporary lifting of oil sanctions in exchange for “free and fair elections” in Venezuela, according to reports published by Bloomberg and Reuters on Wednesday.
CARACAS – Venezuela’s establishment “opposition” has closed ranks around 14 candidates for its upcoming October 22 primary.
CARACAS, Venezuela – The polling firm Meganálisis found in a study published this weekend that “nobody” is leading the race in the Venezuelan establishment opposition’s upcoming presidential primary election.
Venezuelan conservative leader María Corina Machado shared a video this week showing citizens in the country using a garbage truck to transport an injured person to a clinic in lieu of an ambulance.
A survey published this weekend by the Venezuelan polling firm Meganálisis found that María Corina Machado, a conservative opposition party leader, inspired the most confidence in Venezuelans who want the ruling Maduro regime removed.
Juan Guaidó, the legal president of Venezuela, urged people in the country on Monday to join a rally celebrating “health heroes” fighting the Chinese coronavirus pandemic — a small-scale attempt to rebuild the enormous momentum behind anti-socialist protests that fizzled under his leadership.
Venezuelan President Juan Guaidó enjoys only about five percent support from a citizenry that also overwhelmingly rejects dictator Nicolás Maduro — a reality that the U.S. should address in its policy towards the country, a senior Venezuelan pollster told Breitbart News this week.
Venezuelan opposition personality Henrique Capriles Radonski came under fire this week for holding talks with Islamist Turkey without the approval of President Juan Guaidó and embracing the parliamentary elections organized by the Maduro regime.
María Corina Machado — leader of Vente Venezuela, the nation’s only major conservative party — accused top U.S. Venezuela policy official Elliott Abrams of “undermining” President Donald Trump on Monday in remarks that branded her delusional and lazy.
President Donald Trump’s Special Representative for Venezuela, former opponent Elliott Abrams, accused Venezuelan conservative leader María Corina Machado on Monday of indulging in “magical realism” for refusing to ally with socialist opposition members against socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro.
Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, head of the country’s only mainstream center-right party, Vente Venezuela, rejected the possibility this weekend of a pact with socialist President Juan Guaidó against socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro.
The Washington Post published off-the-record remarks on Tuesday by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in which he laments the fractured state of Venezuela’s opposition to dictator Nicolás Maduro, quipping that “forty-plus people” think they are the rightful heirs to the presidency.
Venezuelans are growing impatient with President Juan Guaidó following his announcement that he would engage in talks with dictator Nicolás Maduro beginning Tuesday, launching the fifth dialogue process with the regime in six years.
The wife of Venezuelan opposition leader Leopoldo López said in an interview published Tuesday that her husband would consider running for president in any free elections in a post-Maduro era.
Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado published a letter on Monday directed at Chinese Communist Party chief Xi Jinping and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, intended to discourage both countries from continuing to do business with Nicolás Maduro’s socialist regime.
Prominent members of the anti-socialist opposition in Venezuela congratulated Brazilian President-elect Jair Bolsonaro on Monday for his election victory this weekend. Bolsonaro made fighting socialism a pillar of his campaign policy, promising to cut financial ties with the dictatorship in Caracas.
The anti-socialist Venezuelan opposition party Vente Venezuela posted a video late Wednesday of a violent gang attacking their leader, former legislator María Corina Machado, and supporters with sticks and pipes in broad daylight.
Venezuela’s right of center opposition praised President Donald Trump’s efforts to exert pressure on the country’s socialist dictatorship while urging further sanctions against the regime.