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Fuel shortages in the oil-rich country of Venezuela continue to worsen as mass resignations at the state oil company’s tanker fleet cause the delay gasoline shipments

The government of Brazil is considering offering medical students and young doctors debt relief in exchange for sending them to work in less desirable rural areas to replace the thousands of slave doctors Cuba is withdrawing from the country, O Globo reported on Wednesday.

No evidence exists that the Brazilian government believed the Cuban doctors it hired would not be receiving salaries, government documents reportedly reveal according to a report published by the Spain-based Diario de Cuba newspaper on Tuesday.

Politically motivated arrests of soldiers and military personnel in Venezuela reached an all-time high in 2018, according to a report from grassroots Venezuelan site Crónica Uno published Monday.

Brazil’s President-elect Jair Bolsonaro announced Wednesday that his administration will grant political asylum to Cuban doctors forced to work in the country for the dictatorship’s profit, reversing the policy his socialist predecessor imposed on them.

Venezuelan ranchers are protesting plans by the country’s socialist regime to begin expropriating cattle through local governments, as Nicolás Maduro’s economic policy moves towards that of a Cuba-style communist state. 

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.

Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro and Cuba’s ceremonial “president” Miguel Díaz-Canel took the time Sunday to celebrate the birthday of fellow leftist autocrat Daniel Ortega, who turned 73 years old and has ruled Nicaragua for about half of the years since the 1979 Sandinista revolution.

Spain’s pro-open borders socialist prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, has called on the British government to call for another Brexit referendum so their country can “come back to the EU”.

Contents: Venezuela’s refugees crisis soars, as economic disaster reaches new levels; Number of migrants leaving Venezuela reaches three million

Brazil’s president-elect Jair Bolsonaro claimed he would do “everything legally in my power” to authorize the extradition of Italian Marxist terrorist Cesare Battisti, given asylum under socialist administrations, in remarks Wednesday.

Venezuelan Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino López dismissed American National Security Adviser John Bolton as a “clown” in a rant Tuesday accusing the United States and Colombia of fabricating claims that the socialist failed state has established ties with Marxist terrorist groups.

Venezuelan Bishop Jaime Villarroel denounced the regime of President Nicolás Maduro for treating citizens like criminals and turning the entire country into a huge “concentration camp.”

Sick Venezuelan refugees are spreading disease across neighboring countries such as Brazil and Colombia due to the collapse of their own country’s health care system, a report from The Wall Street Journal has detailed. 

Thousands of leftist protesters took to the streets of Brazil this week to march against the election of conservative firebrand Jair Bolsonaro, with some groups protesters turning into violent confrontations, local media reported. 

Obamacare was always just a stepping stone to government-controlled healthcare, and now a majority of House Democrats are ready to make that leap across the socialist river with their “Medicare for All” plan.

A Congressional Leadership Fund (CLF) ad released on Wednesday exposes Virginia fifth congressional Democrat candidate Leslie Cockburn’s socialist policies while touting Republican Denver Riggleman’s conservative policies.

Brazil President-elect Jair Bolsonaro told various media outlets on Monday that he hopes to find a place in the highest levels of his government for Judge Sergio Moro, the judge responsible for dozens of arrests of politicians in “Operation Car Wash.”

Venezuelan student leader Lorent Saleh spent four years behind bars for peaceful resistance to the socialist regime of Nicolás Maduro. Released this month, he offered several interviews this week from his new home in Spain, describing in gruesome detail the wide variety of torture methods he experienced and saw in use during his imprisonment.

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.

“Jair Bolsonaro being president was a ridiculous proposition two years ago,” wrote Igor Gielow in Brazil’s Folha de Sao Paulo on Sunday about the president-elect.

Georgia Republican gubernatorial nominee Brian Kemp joined Breitbart News Radio on Saturday to discuss his opposition to his challenger’s radical socialist agenda.

Dina Rubio writes in The SunSentinal about the ascendancy of Socialism in the Democratic Party today and offers a cautionary tale from her own personal history growing up under the Sandanistas in Nicaragua.

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.

Bodies being held at a morgue in the Venezuelan state of Zulia have begun exploding due to lack of electricity, an investigative report by BBC Mundo has revealed. 

As the Democrats drift further and further leftward into openly embracing socialism, House Majority Leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) says the political battle that lay ahead in the Nov. 6 midterm elections just two weeks from now is no longer a traditional partisan battle but one where the country must reject extreme ideas from the left.

A statewide St. Petersburg survey released on Sunday revealed Republican Rick Scott with a slight lead in the heated Florida U.S. Senate race over his Democrat challenger Bill Nelson.

Senior Venezuelan socialist official Diosdado Cabello claimed in an interview Sunday his country is “fully prepared” for a war with the United States.

Antonio Sabato Jr. — an actor and model known for starring in General Hospital, currently running to represent California’s 26th congressional district — described Democrats as supporting “open borders” and “socialism.”

Ecuador declared the Venezuelan ambassador to Quito, Carol Delgado, persona non grata on Thursday after Venezuelan Communications Minister Jorge Rodríguez called Ecuadorian President Lenin Moreno a “liar” and implied he was acting on U.S. orders.

“The choice could not be more clear: Democrats produce mobs, Republicans produce jobs,” Trump said during a campaign rally in Montana.

Fernando Haddad, the socialist Workers’ Party (PT) candidate for president of Brazil, published an attack ad on social media Wednesday implying that conservative rival Jair Bolsonaro’s victory would result in accidental homicides by children becoming the norm in the country.

A report commissioned by Ecuador’s Prosecutor General revealed this weekend the country may have lost up to $2 billion in oil deals under the socialist government of ex-president Rafael Correa. Deals with the state-owned PetroChina gave Correa billions in credit while allegedly hurting the Ecuadorian government’s profits.

Leading Venezuelan socialist Diosdado Cabello has declared that people “must respect” the decision of an opposition lawmaker to commit suicide, amid widespread claims that he was killed by Nicolás Maduro’s socialist regime. 

Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro accused President Donald Trump of planning to assassinate him on Thursday, an accusation he commonly hurled at the Obama administration in the past.

A poll published by the Brazilian firm Datafolha on Thursday found conservative presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro holding a 16-point lead over socialist rival Fernando Haddad, a margin wider than between any two presidential candidates in a run-off in that country since 2002.