My Socialist Hell: The Death of Comedy in Venezuela
CARACAS — Venezuela used to be known for many great things, among them its unfiltered, satirical, irreverent, politically incorrect, and no-holds-barred humor.
CARACAS — Venezuela used to be known for many great things, among them its unfiltered, satirical, irreverent, politically incorrect, and no-holds-barred humor.
CARACAS, Venezuela – The government of Colombia and the Marxist National Liberation Army (ELN) terrorist organization initiated peace talks on Monday in Venezuela under the auspices of socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro.
CARACAS — Venezuela’s socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro lashed out against leftist politicians who have criticized him for being a dictator — without naming one in particular — during an event in the infamous Sao Paulo Forum on Friday.
CARACAS – Venezuela’s socialist regime released an official statement on Wednesday rejecting global disgust with FIFA, the international soccer organization, for naming the repressive Islamist state of Qatar the 2022 World Cup host.
CARACAS, Venezuela – Socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro is spending quality vacation time in Egypt on the occasion of his participation in the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27) held in the city of Sharm El Sheikh.
CARACAS – U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry shook hands with Venezuela’s socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro — whom the U.S has an active $15 million bounty on — in Egypt at the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27) on Tuesday
CARACAS, Venezuela – Colombia’s far-left President Gustavo Petro traveled to Venezuela on Tuesday to meet with socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro, the first official encounter between both heads of state after the re-establishment of diplomatic ties between both countries in August.
With the arrival of Hugo Chávez and his Bolivarian Revolution, education became a constant battlefield for Venezuela’s socialist regime against students, parents, and teachers.
CARACAS – Socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro revealed on Monday that he held a telephone conversation with Brazil’s President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in which both agreed to “resume the bilateral cooperation agenda” between both countries amidst the upcoming return to power of one of the Venezuelan regime’s most critical allies.
CARACAS – Juan Guaidó, Venezuela’s legitimate yet powerless president, led a rally of hundreds of Venezuelans towards one of the headquarters of the country’s National Electoral Council (CNE) in the capital on Thursday to demand socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro hold “free and fair” presidential elections in 2024.
A family in Venezuela required on average the equivalent of 28.32 months’ worth of the country’s minimum wage to be able to properly afford food during September, according to data published by the Center for Documentation and Social Analysis of the Venezuelan Federation of Teachers (CENDAS-FVM) on Sunday.
CARACAS – Venezuela’s “opposition” parties are planning to dissolve the country’s legitimate interim government led by Juan Guaidó in January 2023, according to a report published by CNN’s Latin American branch, CNN en Español, on Thursday.
Iran’s Oil Minister Javad Owji announced on Sunday that Iran has finished repairing Venezuela’s El Palito refinery, allowing upwards of 100,000 barrels per day of Iranian oil to be refined overseas in the rogue South American socialist nation, according to a report published by the Islamic Republic News Agency on Monday.
The Biden administration announced Wednesday evening a policy change meant to limit the influx of Venezuelans illegally crossing the border into the United States, currently at an unprecedented level.
Venezuela’s socialist regime failed to obtain the necessary votes to be reelected into the United Nations Human Rights Council for a three-year term during the body’s elections on Tuesday.
CARACAS – Secretary of State Antony Blinken denied on Thursday that the Biden Administration is seeking to provide sanctions relief to Venezuela’s socialist regime – while tacitly legitimizing dictator Nicolás Maduro by promoting the idea of holding “free and fair” elections against him in 2024.
The Biden administration is preparing to ease oil sanctions on the socialist regime of Venezuela that would allow California-based Chevron to resume oil production there, potentially opening a path for the return of Venezuelan oil exports into U.S. and European markets, according to a report published by the Wall Street Journal on Wednesday.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken continued his ongoing tour of Latin America, landing in Peru on Thursday, where the Organization of American States (OAS) will be holding its annual General Assembly.
The Biden administration’s exchange of two convicted Venezuelan drug traffickers related to socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro in exchange for seven imprisoned American citizens drew a barrage of criticism this weekend, particularly given the precedent set by the Trump administration with the release of American citizen Joshua Holt.
President Joe Biden conducted a prisoner swap with the socialist regime of Venezuela that materialized on Saturday, releasing two of dictator Nicolás Maduro’s nephews who had been sentenced to 18 years in prison in America for cocaine trafficking in exchange for seven imprisoned American oil workers.
Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” that President Biden agreeing to grant clemency to two convicted Venezuelan drug smugglers in exchange for seven Americans held hostage puts all Americans in danger. Anchor Dana Bash
The socialist regime of Venezuela denied the existence of the country’s migrant crisis, describing it as “invented,” during a dialogue at the United Nations on Monday.
Everything that has occurred in Venezuela over the past two decades has undoubtedly left physical and psychological scars on my people. The repression, violence, shortages, and everything else that has been unleashed through the rule of the socialist regime should serve as a cautionary tale for everyone.
Venezuelan Foreign Affairs Minister Carlos Faría addressed the United Nations on Saturday to read an “open letter to humanity” signed by socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro in which he claimed that 60 percent of the Venezuelan migrants that have fled from his authoritarian socialist regime have “returned.”
Venezuelan socialist Oil Minister Tareck El Aissami – a U.S.-designated drug kingpin – announced on Thursday that his regime has formally requested 23 “international warrants” and contacted Interpol to arrest legitimate President Juan Guaidó and the former president of Colombia, Iván Duque.
Dictatorships are “weaponizing” migration and Biden is “falling in their trap,” said Rep. Michael McCaul, the top Republican on the House foreign affairs committee.
The United Nations Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (FFMV) released a report on Tuesday detailing how the socialist regime of Nicolás Maduro — which currently holds a seat at the U.N. Human Rights Council — has utilized its intelligence and military agencies to carry out crimes against humanity.
The vice president of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) Diosdado Cabello issued a warning on Wednesday to Venezuelan public officials against attending Puerto Rican singer Luis Fonsi’s upcoming October concert in Caracas, insulting the singer for not letting dictator Nicolás Maduro use his hit song “Despacito.”
The Secretary General of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), Haitham Al Ghais, traveled to Venezuela on Tuesday to meet with socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro, touting the “key role” of Venezuelan oil in the international market.
British media organizations confirmed on Wednesday that Venezuela would not receive a formal invite to the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II, shutting out socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro and the rightful president of the country, Juan Guaidó.
CARACAS, Venezuela – The United Nations Human Rights Council began its 51st session in Geneva on Monday with the Latin American dictatorships of Cuba and Venezuela among its members – despite their lengthy track record of human rights violations.
The governments of Latin America offered solemn condolences to the people of the United Kingdom and the Royal Family over the passing of Queen Elizabeth II, paying their respects to Britain’s longest-ever reigning monarch.
Venezuela’s socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro, in an telephone interview given to Argentina’s Radio 10 on Sunday, suggested that the government of Argentina should implement a “hate speech” law, similar to the one passed by his regime in 2017, following the alleged assassination attempt against Argentina’s vice president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner on Thursday.
CARACAS – The Interagency Coordination Platform for Refugees and Migrants from Venezuela (R4V) announced on Monday that the number of Venezuelan migrants that have so far fled from their country and its socialist regime had reached 6,805,209 by August 5, more than 20 percent of the nation’s population.
A poll published this week by the Venezuelan firm Meganálisis found an overwhelming majority of the country subscribes to Christian beliefs and holds socially conservative viewpoints such as opposition to legalized abortion and same-sex marriage.
Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) told Breitbart News this week following a call for the U.S. to ban Latin American dictators from entering that county that the only “reasonable justification” for letting them in would be their arrest.
The Chinese coronavirus pandemic is, for all intents and purposes, over in Venezuela, but the regime maintains some of the coronavirus-related restrictions it imposed in March 2020.
The government of Marxist ex-guerrilla member President Gustavo Petro in Colombia sent an ambassador to Venezuela on Sunday and accepted his counterpart representing the socialist regime of dictator Nicolás Maduro, restoring ties broken under the previous conservative president over the illegality of Maduro’s leadership of the country.
China has been transporting millions of barrels of Venezuelan oil through a state-owned defense firm since 2020, evading U.S. sanctions imposed on Venezuelan oil, as part of a move to offset the socialist regime’s large debt to the Chinese Communist Party, Reuters reported on Friday.
CARACAS, Venezuela – A top official with the German company Siemens Energy AG told Bloomberg News on Tuesday that it is “in talks” with the socialist regime of dictator Nicolás Maduro to repair the nation’s crumbling power grid.