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The last-minute surge of outsider candidate Rodolfo Hernández in the Colombian presidential race suggest he could leap into second place in Sunday’s election, guaranteeing a place in a runoff, likely against far-left candidate Gustavo Petro.

Officials in socialist Sri Lanka boasted on Thursday of having arrested 137 people for “hoarding” gasoline, diesel, and kerosene as the government struggles to purchase sufficient supplies or distribute the little it has efficiently — a crisis worsened by severe shortages of medicine and basic items like powdered milk.

Incumbent Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX) declared victory as socialist Jessica Cisneros wouldn’t concede yet in Tuesday’s run-off battle for the Democrat nomination for Texas’s Twenty-eighth Congressional District after neither candidate got more than 50 percent of the vote needed to win the party’s nomination outright in March.

CARACAS – New York prosecutors charged Venezuelan cardiologist Moisés Luis Zagala González this month with designing and licensing malware used by cybercriminal groups, including some with ties to the Islamist regime of Iran.

Venezuelan socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro said during a radio broadcast on Thursday that he was applying for a U.S. visa to attend a salsa music festival in New York City next month, omitting that the U.S. government has not only sanctioned him but is offering up to $15 million for information leading to his arrest on charges of drug trafficking.

The administration of President Joe Biden, formally and via anonymous reports, announced twin policies to ease the financial misfortunes of the communist government of Cuba and its proxy socialist government in Venezuela, leaving leaders in both communities dismayed and confused.

Multiple anonymous senior officials told reporters on Tuesday that leftist President Joe Biden is planning to soon ease sanctions on dictator Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela, including sanctions that prevent negotiations between American oil companies and Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA).

CARACAS — A group of 18 “Progressive” Democrat members of Congress sent a letter to President Joe Biden this week urging him to drop sanctions against the authoritarian socialist regime of Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela.

The Socialist government of Spain is set to become the first country in Europe to offer women monthly leave from work for menstruation.

CARACAS, Venezuela — Colombian citizens will head to the polls on Sunday, May 29, to choose who will be their nation’s president for the next four years.

Local news outlets in Sri Lanka documented the destruction of over 50 homes and other properties belonging to government ministers and members of Parliament – including at least four tied to the ruling Rajapaksa family – between Monday night and Tuesday morning, a major escalation in violence in less than 24 hours after over a month of mostly peaceful protests.

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro declared “war” on government oil company Petrobras during a live broadcast online on Thursday evening over what he called “absurd” profits that were tantamount to the “rape” of the Brazilian people.

Venezuelan polling firm Meganálisis found in a study published this week that nearly 80 percent of the country believe that members of opposition movements against socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro are either “sellouts” or themselves chavistas, a catastrophic lack in trust that makes change in the country nearly impossible.

Brazilian ex-President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, a socialist running for president again this year after his judicial appointees overturned a 25-year prison sentence for corruption, used a campaign rally this weekend to promote the creation of a pan-American currency.

Former President of Sri Lanka Maithripala Sirisena said on Friday that his successor, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, had agreed to remove his brother Mahinda from the prime minister seat after a meeting with opposition parties.

The socialist regime of Venezuela held a free music and sports festival between April 12-16 in the city of Puerto Cabello, Carabobo, inviting foreign and local musicians to perform.

Venezuelans in the national capital, Caracas, burned effigies of dictator Nicolás Maduro and his Russian patron Vladimir Putin in public this weekend as part of an Easter tradition known as “the burning of Judas.”

China’s state-run propaganda newspaper Global Times on Wednesday blamed American sanctions on Russia due to the war in Ukraine for Sri Lanka’s increasingly dire economic disaster – a disaster greatly exacerbated by the country taking out predatory loans from China.

Gaetz grilled Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on military wokeness, prompting a fiery exchange between the two during a hearing on Tuesday.

Protesters in Los Angeles, California, and Staten Island, New York, joined hundreds at home in Sri Lanka this week to demand that President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and his brother, Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa, resign amid catastrophic shortages of most basic goods.

CARACAS — The socialist government of Venezuela decreed a 1,757-percent minimum-wage raise in the month of March.

The oversight committee of the Congress of Ecuador revealed in a 200-page report published on Wednesday the country lost about $3,60 per barrel of oil in a deal with China, resulting in total losses of nearly $5 billion.

Tuesday on CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” Sen. Pat Toomey (R-PA) weighed in on the Biden administration’s new proposals over corporate stock buyback restrictions and a billionaire minimum income tax.

Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro’s second-in-command, United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) leader Diosdado Cabello, mused on Monday that his country could engage in a Ukraine-style invasion of Colombia to “de-cocainize” the country.

Twitter users are ridiculing Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez (NY) after she took to her Instagram story this week and whispered in a “creepy” Biden fashion to her followers about socialism.

Venezuelan socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro announced on national television this week that his regime would pressure citizens to receive a Chinese coronavirus vaccine booster shot every four months.

White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki repeatedly shut down questions about President Joe Biden potentially cutting a deal to import oil from socialist Venezuela on Monday after rumors of such a move, fueled by a U.S. delegation to Caracas, prompted international outrage.

Sir Keir Starmer, the Labour Party leader, declared on Friday that he is a staunch believer that “trans women are women”.

Any potential agreement between the administration of President Joe Biden and Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro for America to purchase Venezuelan oil – as reports have rumored Biden to be interested in this week – would have to go through the country’s oil minister, Tareck El Aissami, long suspected of ties to Hezbollah and wanted in America for drug trafficking.

Socialist dictator of Venezuela Nicolás Maduro confirmed during a Monday night broadcast that President Joe Biden had sent a delegation to Caracas for a “respectful, cordial, diplomatic” discussion.

Multiple major corporate media outlets in America reported this weekend that President Joe Biden sent a delegation to Venezuela to meet socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro, reportedly to discuss buying Venezuelan oil.

CARACAS — Venezuela is one of three Latin American countries that has expressed support for Russia and its invasion of Ukraine — or more specifically, the socialist regime of Venezuela is the one that has expressed its support of Putin.

Rep. Byron Donalds slammed far-left Democrats — specifically Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez  (D-NY) — for “unleash[ing] inflation on our shores.”

CARACAS — The socialist regime of Venezuela recently imposed a new tax on all foreign currency payments to civilians and companies. Now that the country is being held together by the once illegal and demonized U.S. dollar, the regime wants their fat slice of everyone’s money.

The European Union (E.U.) sought to place itself in front of Russia’s territorial ambitions Thursday as it announced the “strongest, the harshest package” of sanctions to punish Moscow for the invasion of Ukraine.

Venezuelan socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro paid back years of support to Russian strongman Vladimir Putin in a televised diatribe Tuesday night accusing Ukrainian leaders of being “fascists” and declaring his regime’s “complete backing” of Putin’s ongoing military invasion of Ukraine.