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United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet met with members of the Maduro regime, the opposition, and human rights groups during her visit to Venezuela this week.

On Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Fox News @ Night,” House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) predicted that the 2020 presidential election will be a debate between freedom and Socialism. McCarthy said, “[I]t’s not the same Democratic Party…it

South Bend Mayor and 2020 presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg (D) criticized fellow White House rivals former Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) in an interview scheduled to air Sunday morning.

“The Young Turks” co-hosts Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian on Wednesday criticized conservative commentator Candace Owens’ recent debate performance against progressive professor Cornel West on the Fox News Channel.

Denver has elected a socialist city councilwoman who is calling for the “communal ownership” of land, according to the results of the city’s June 4 runoff.

“We have to reject the socialist model,” Trump said, calling for freedom of choice and access to the best health care plans.

Thursday on Fox News Channel’s “The Ingraham Angle,” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) embraced House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s moniker, labeling him as the “grim reaper.”

Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz, who has been teasing an independent run for the White House, is taking a “detour” from the campaign trail, he announced in a letter Wednesday.

The Central Bank of Venezuela released on Thursday a new set of banknotes for the second time in under a year, as rampant hyperinflation continues to ravage the socialist country’s crippled economy. 

Former Vice President Joe Biden called for “reordering capitalism” on Wednesday at a $2,800-a-head fundraiser hosted by the chairman of the world’s largest real estate and investment firm. 

Six Citgo oil executives, five of them American citizens, will stand trial on charges of embezzlement and conspiracy after a year and a half in prison without charges in socialist Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro’s supreme court revealed on Monday.

An overcrowded morgue in San Cristóbal, western Venezuela, has asked families of the deceased to take their bodies home or face their relatives being buried in a communal, unmarked grave, La Nación reported on Wednesday.

The Venezuelan Observatory of Violence (OVV), an NGO that tracks violent crime in the country, found that nearly 1,500 minors were violently killed in 2018, many of them by Nicolás Maduro’s socialist forces, the outlet Runrunes reported on Monday.

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo urged the world to unite to find solutions to the hunger crisis in Venezuela at the World Food Prize Laureate Announcement Ceremony, arguing that “we all have an obligation” to get the country off of the “Maduro diet.”

Thousands of Venezuelans poured into neighboring Colombia this weekend after the Maduro regime partially re-opened the border following a four-month blockade.

An increasing number of Americans are seeing socialism in a more positive light, a recent Harris poll shows.

Actress Angelina Jolie visited Venezuelan refugees in Colombia this weekend, praising them as the “strongest people in the world” while calling on the international community to provide more assistance.

Tens of thousands of Haitians participated in protests across the country on Sunday to demand President Jovenel Moïse’s resignation. The mass action came after an audit found politicians had embezzled billions in development funds from PetroCaribe, a socialist Venezuelan program that granted poorer Western Hemisphere nations access to cheap oil.

A member of a colectivo, the violent socialist gangs the dictatorship uses to stay in power, appeared on Venezuelan television Thursday condemning Nicolás Maduro for failing to repair the only hospital in the nation with a toxicology specialization.

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.

Venezuela’s Supreme Court, run by loyalists to socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro, ordered the online news outlet La Patilla to pay senior chavista official, television show host, and alleged cartel chief Diosdado Cabello 30 billion bolivars ($4.7 million) for aggregating a 2015 article in which Hugo Chávez’s former security chief accused Cabello of drug trafficking.

Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) says elected Democrats want to give amnesty to the 11 to 22 million illegal aliens living in the United States for the purpose of ensuring a “reliable socialist Democrat” voting bloc.

The Russian government rejected a Wall Street Journal report on Tuesday claiming it had largely withdrawn its significant military presence in Venezuela, adding that it had not contacted President Donald Trump about any such moves.

Former Governor John Hickenlooper continued to double down on his anti-socialism warning for Democrats even after left-wing activists this weekend at California’s Democratic convention jeered him for saying President Donald Trump will win the White House in 2020 if Republicans can easily define Democrats as socialists.

Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro told Univisión’s Jorge Ramos in a recently recovered confiscated interview that people in New York and Miami eat garbage just as they do in Venezuela.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) told former Rep. John Delaney (D-MD) Sunday to “sashay away” over his opposition to Medicare for All, contending that the single-payer, government-run health care program is “sound policy.”

Longshot 2020 presidential candidate and former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper (D) was booed by Democrat activists for warning against the dangers of socialism at the California Democrat Convention on Saturday.

Univisión announced Thursday it had recovered the full video of a lost interview by Jorge Ramos with Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro that Maduro abruptly ended before confiscating the tape and detaining Ramos.

Venezuelans living near the Colombian capital of Bogotá have received numerous anonymous death threats promising to “cleanse” them from society, the Colombian Center for Research and Popular Education reported Thursday. 

Former Colorado Governor and 2020 presidential candidate John Hickenlooper on Wednesday evening told MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow that President Donald Trump will win back the White House in 2020 if the party does not distance itself from socialism.

An allegedly close former military aide to Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chávez leveled scandalous accusations against Chávez’s Cuban ally Fidel Castro in a story carried by Argentine media on Wednesday, suggesting the Castro regime killed Chávez after seducing him with “women” and “witchcraft.”

The government of Norway, which has inserted itself into the struggle between Venezuelan President Juan Guaidó and socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro, claimed on Wednesday that the two sides seemed willing to “move forward” in talks hosted by Oslo. This was just hours before Guaidó claimed no deal came of the talks and he would take to the streets again.

The Chinese state newspaper Global Times claimed in a column Tuesday that American sanctions on the wealthy senior members of Nicolás Maduro’s illegitimate socialist regime were to blame for the ongoing humanitarian crisis in that country, contrasting U.S. sanctions with Chinese aid to Maduro.

Workout and fitness company CrossFit has quit Facebook and Instagram and called the social media giant “utopian socialists,” after a CrossFit diet plan group was summarily suspended without explanation this month.

The U.S. State Department told Breitbart News in a statement Tuesday the Trump administration believes any talks between Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro and President Juan Guaidó must “include Maduro’s departure as a precondition for elections.”

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) spoke on Saturday at a Washington branch of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) fundraiser in Seattle, Washington, where security was tight and protesters showed up in support of Omar and others came to condemn her antisemitic remarks.