The Communist Party of Cuba thanked its counterpart in China on Tuesday for pressuring the administration of President Joe Biden to invite Cuba to next week’s Summit of the Americas, an event technically reserved for democracies.
Far-left socialist candidate Gustavo Petro, a former member of the M19 Marxist guerrilla, won the first round of Colombia’s presidential election on Sunday.
U.S. State Department official Kevin O’Reilly, coordinator of the Summit of the Americas scheduled to begin on June 6, said on Thursday that a final decision has been made to exclude Venezuela and Nicaragua. The Biden administration is still struggling to decide whether Cuba will be invited.
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro confirmed Thursday that he would travel to Los Angeles in June for the Summit of the Americas and said he planned to meet American counterpart Joe Biden in person, adding that Biden treated him “as if I didn’t exist” during their last meeting, and blaming the snub on “age.”
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.
The Biden administration has reportedly invited Spain to attend the Summit of the Americas, scheduled next month in Los Angeles. The summit was already controversial in Latin America because the authoritarian regimes of Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua were not invited to attend. The invitation to former regional colonial power Spain could become a further irritation.
Chinese Foreign Ministry Wang Yi spent much of the weekend calling up senior officials in Latin America to discuss dictator Xi Jinping’s vague “global security initiative,” the South China Morning Post observed on Sunday, in what appeared to be an effort to bolster Beijing’s profile in the Western Hemisphere.
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.
On Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Cavuto: Coast to Coast,” Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH) reacted to the Biden administration reportedly easing some economic sanctions against Venezuela by wondering why the administration would lift sanctions on a Russian ally
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 president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, announced on Monday that his nation had spent $15.3 million to purchase an additional 500 Bitcoins to add to the nation’s cryptocurrency reserves.
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.
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.
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.”
Human rights activists are demanding the United Nations expel China, Cuba, Venezuela, and several other members of its Human Rights Council following the suspension of Russia’s membership on Thursday in light of their abysmal human rights records – in China’s case, including genocide.
CARACAS — The socialist government of Venezuela decreed a 1,757-percent minimum-wage raise in the month of March.
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) warned during a Congressional hearing on Thursday that China is moving to capitalize on a severe “economic downturn” in Latin America partially fueled by Chinese coronavirus lockdowns to expand its influence there.
CARACAS — The news that President Joe Biden sent a delegation to meet socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro took Venezuelans by surprise.
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.
On Monday’s “Sean Hannity Show,” Economics Professor at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business Austan Goolsbee, who served as Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Barack Obama said he found the Biden administration’s plan to lift
Florida Democrats try to distance themselves from the Biden administration as it reaches out to Venezuela to shore up U.S. oil supplies.
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.
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) ripped President Joe Biden and his administration for ongoing negotiations with the Islamic Republic of Iran, the socialist Nicolas Maduro regime in Venezuela, and other efforts by Biden to cut deals with adversaries of America.
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.
On Monday’s broadcast of CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-ND) stated that President Joe Biden has starved energy producers of capital through signals like “regulation, taxation, flirting with Maduro in Venezuela, or the ayatollah in Iran to fill the
The Biden Administration is on defense over its plan to replace oil from Russia by importing it from Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro.
President Biden angles himself to be tough toward Vladimir Putin because the Russian leader is a “dictator,” yet he turns to other dictators for gas imports as he kneecaps domestic energy, Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) said during a roundtable discussion in Doral, Florida, on Friday.
On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher said it’s “very strange” for President Joe Biden to cut off oil imports from Russia while asking Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, and Iran to produce oil. Maher stated, “When we cut
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.
Republicans in the U.S. Senate have introduced a bill to ban oil and gas imports from the dictatorships in Iran and Venezuela.
On Wednesday’s broadcast of ABC’s “GMA3,” Rep. Jason Crow (D-CO) said he opposes importing oil from Venezuela because importing oil from dictatorial regimes leaves America “vulnerable” and America can’t support dictators anywhere and we have to stand up for American
On Wednesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “MTP Daily,” House Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-NY) reacted to a possible oil deal with Venezuela, by stating that, with certain conditions, if we can move Venezuela away “from being an ally
The region of Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro freed two American citizens, identified as an oil executive and a tourist, late Tuesday night following a meeting between the socialist leader and a delegation sent by President Joe Biden.
Republican Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA) said at a press conference on Capitol Hill on Tuesday that President Joe Biden should stop begging “other dictators” in Iran and Venezuela for fossil fuels needed in the U.S. and allow domestic oil to flow.
While speaking to reporters on Tuesday, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) said we should see if Iran and Venezuela “can help those countries that are trying to stop Putin” by boosting the world’s energy supply, and that while doing so is
On Tuesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Jose Diaz-Balart Reports,” Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) reacted to the Biden administration reportedly looking to increase oil imports from Venezuela by stating that there is no need to go to
While speaking to reporters on Tuesday, Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) reacted to the Biden administration reportedly looking to increase energy imports from Iran and Venezuela by calling for a return to prior energy production policies to boost domestic energy production. CNN
While speaking to reporters on Tuesday, Sen. Jon Tester (D-MT) reacted to the Biden administration reportedly looking to increase energy imports from Iran and Venezuela by stating that the United States shouldn’t be helping out countries that don’t share America’s
