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Venezuela’s anti-socialist opposition coalition announced Thursday it would no longer participate in Vatican-sponsored talks with the dictatorship of Nicolás Maduro, noting that the government has been “arrogant and rude” and done nothing to advance the liberation of political prisoners or improve the economy.

A new report in Bloomberg reveals that U.S. authorities are investigating evidence suggesting that the socialist government of Venezuela paid Iran “hundreds of millions” as part of a money laundering scheme designed to avoid human rights sanctions imposed on the Islamic Republic.

Contents: Venezuela to print 20,000 Bolivar note as currency; Zimbabwe introduces a new currency, ‘bond notes’

CARACAS, Venezuela – Under the rule of charismatic revolutionary dictator Hugo Chávez, Venezuela positioned itself as the one of the world’s most prominent socialist ‘havens,’ with Chávez regularly expressing an extremely hostile approach to what he described as ‘US imperialism.’

Members of the Venezuelan anti-socialist opposition are warning that the peace deal with the Marxist terror group FARC in neighboring Colombia could result in a flood of absolved terrorists looking to rebuild their operation in Venezuela, a nation already bludgeoned by the world’s highest inflation rate and a severe food shortage.

A leaked document from George Soros’s Open Society Foundations reveals the organization was seeking to influence the positions of Latin American governments in negotiating the Transpacific Partnership Agreement, or TTP.

The Brazilian magazine Veja has published what it claims to be an official Venezuelan government document authorizing the purchase of multiple chemicals used to make weapons from the government of Iran, a violation of UN sanctions, in 2009.

Longtime Los Angeles Dodgers announcer Vin Scully went on a rant about socialism in Venezuela Friday during the team’s game against the Milwaukee Brewers, saying it is “failing to work.” “Socialism failing to work — as it always does —

Contents: Economic collapse of Venezuela will devastate the entire Caribbean region; Lufthansa suspends flights to Venezuela over non-payment; Hugo Chávez dismantled Venezuela’s businesses on purpose to create Socialist Paradise

A mob in Venezuela beat a man senseless, doused him in gasoline, and set him ablaze for allegedly stealing the equivalent of five dollars.

Contents: Venezuela’s Maduro accuses US of planning an imminent invasion; Syria peace talks in Vienna collapse in farce – again

Contents: Venezuela’s socialist economy close to a crash; Maduro orders jailing of owners of closed factories; Maduro recalls Brazil ambassador over Dilma Rousseff ‘coup’

The government of North Korea has been increasingly boasting of support from fellow socialists in Venezuela, where this weekend the North Korean ambassador gave a rousing speech calling for “continued struggle against imperialism.”

Venezuela’s socialist President Nicolás Maduro has ordered all government employees to come into work only on Mondays and Tuesdays, enraging parents who want their children to go to school and opposition members who have deemed the decree “immoral.”

A disturbing video of a crowd physically beating each other to get at a select few bags of onions outside a supermarket in Venezuela highlights the struggle the average Venezuelan must endure to keep his or her family fed in the increasingly impoverished socialist nation.

Late Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chávez poured over seven million euros into the creation of a political party in Spain run by “natural allies of the Bolivarian revolution,” according to a 2008 document appropriating Venezuelan funds to the leftist professors who would become the leaders of Podemos, now Spain’s largest third party.

The massive legal firm data leak known as the Panama Papers have exposed business dealings that allowed the government of Venezuela under Hugo Chávez to use Cuban money to purchase advanced passport technology from Germany. Venezuela would later be accused of falsifying passports for Hezbollah terrorists.

Student protesters in the far-west Venezuelan state of Táchira killed two police officers and injured four others by driving a hijacked bus into a crowd of law enforcement officials attempting to subdue a protest.

With FARC, President Barack Obama once again seeks peace at any price with America’s historic enemies while abandoning its allies and friends.

Grammy-nominated singer-actress Maria Conchita Alonso had some strong opinions about President Obama’s trip to Cuba this week.

Years of crippling socialist policies have left Venezuela so bereft of food, average Venezuelans must spent up to six hours waiting in line to received their allotted rations of basic goods like vegetable oil, flour, or milk. Musician Jonathan Acosta has offered to help ease the frustration by visiting supermarkets and performing for those waiting in line.

A coalition of Venezuelan socialists that orchestrated the failed attempt to install Hugo Chávez as the nation’s head of state in 1992 are calling for the nation’s president, Nicolás Maduro, to step down, calling him an “autocratic” failure.

Writing in the Sunday Times (of London) today, Thatcherite professor and Mitt Romney backer Niall Ferguson has claimed that the populism of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump needs to be “stamped” on. Prof. Ferguson, who is married to the anti-Islam

Residents of Venezuela’s capital, Caracas, had no access to drinking water this past weekend, allegedly due to a “maintenance” project aimed at keeping water levels high through the annual drought season. The capital’s woes have shed a spotlight on what is becoming a nationwide crisis fueling widespread unrest in the nation’s more remote states.

A number of factions within Venezuela’s socialist left are seeking a way to remove President Nicolás Maduro, in a last-ditch effort to “save the Revolution” begun by late dictator Hugo Chávez.

Venezuelan opposition leaders have written a letter to the UN General Secretary asking the world community to prevent a “judicial coup” by the ruling socialist party.

Back in 2002, in the dark ages before Breitbart News Network, the great conservative commentator Ben Shapiro warned that the United States must “Keep an eye on Russia,” because “Russia is renewing her relations with America’s enemies.” Shapiro reiterated his message in 2007, warning America that “Russia isn’t to be trusted.”

Contents: Venezuela likely to end 16 years of Socialist parliamentary government on Sunday; Venezuelans fear violence or political chaos if Socialists lose

The U.S. Department of State is urging the Venezuelan government to respect human rights following the arrest of opposition leader Manuel Rosales shortly after landing in his home country. Rosales’ arrest follows the conviction of another opposition leader, Leopoldo López, currently serving 13 years in prison for allegedly inciting violence by organizing protests against socialism.

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro warned viewers on Sunday that he expects December’s legislative elections to be the “most difficult yet” for the socialist Chavistas. Maduro, who barely scraped a victory against opposition leader Henrique Capriles Radonski in 2013, also accused the United States of “conspiracy” against him.

Maria Gabriela Chávez, the most prominent of late Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chávez’s four children, is believed to be the wealthiest person in Venezuela, with a reported net worth nearing $4.2 billion.

Contents: Big losses expected Monday when Greece’s stock market reopens; Puerto Rico to default on Tuesday; Venezuela’s collapsing economy receives $5 billion from China; Venezuela in border dispute with Guyana; Turkey returns to war with the Kurdish PKK

A Venezuelan veterinarian has been arrested in Spain after remaining fugitive for years. The man, identified only as 33-year-old Andrés L.E., is charged with implanting packets of liquid heroin in puppies traveling from Colombia to the United States to be sold as pets, in order to smuggle the drug into America.

Former Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs under George W. Bush, Roger Noriega, asserted in multiple interviews this week that the United States has ample evidence that high-ranking government Venezuelan officials are involved in cocaine trafficking, and that Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has used drug money to run his campaign.

Former officials in the government of Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chávez claim that the late leader granted temporary asylum to Bushra al Assad, sister of Syrian President Bashar al Assad, and her five nephews, before they were able to escape to Dubai.

Dr. Karen Halnon, a 52-year-old Penn State University professor, was thrown off of a plane after she lit a cigarette on the jet and proceeded to have a meltdown about U.S.-Venezuela relations.