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Colombian President Iván Duque expressed discomfort on Monday with the Biden administration’s outreach to Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro, whose gas President Joe Biden reportedly covets to alleviate shortages due to the Russia-Ukraine conflict.

The average price of gas on Tuesday jumped 11 cents in one day, surpassing 2008’s former record high of $4.103 per gallon.

On Monday’s broadcast of CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) criticized the Biden administration for reportedly looking to boost energy production in Iran and Venezuela and stated that doing so would make the authoritarian Maduro regime and Iran’s dangerous

On Monday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Cavuto: Coast to Coast,” North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum (R) argued that people who care about the environment should want oil produced in the United States and criticized the Biden administration for engaging

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.

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday held a phone call to plan strategy with Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro, one of Putin’s few outspoken supporters during Russia’s attack on Ukraine. The Kremlin said Maduro expressed “strong support” for Russia’s war effort during the call.

The Communist Party of Cuba, the Sandinista dictatorship of Nicaragua, and socialist Venezuela have expressed effusive support for Russia and its “legitimate security” interests in the past week in response to Vladimir Putin’s decision to begin a full military assault on 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.

CARACAS — The efforts of a group of Venezuelan opposition members to activate a recall vote against socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro ended in an abrupt failure after a marred process full of obstacles, threats, and impossible-to-achieve deadlines.

Venezuela’s establishment opposition won two major victories in Barinas state, home of Hugo Chávez, in the past two months – only for the victor to immediately pledge allegiance to dictator Nicolás Maduro.

Vice President Kamala Harris left for Honduras on Thursday to attend the inauguration of Xiomara Castro, the far-left radical who will be sworn in as the country’s first female president.

Russian leader Vladimir Putin spent much of this month calling the leaders of allied communist nations in Latin America to discuss “boosting strategic cooperation in all fields,” giving Moscow enhanced leverage in the Western Hemisphere as tensions with Washington mount.

The newly elected “opposition” governor of Barinas state, Venezuela, met with dictator Nicolás Maduro on Thursday to express his support for the socialist, deflating hopes that his victory represented a win for those who oppose the far-left authoritarian regime.

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres formally notified the General Assembly on Tuesday that 11 countries are behind in paying their dues, with eight of them delinquent enough to lose their voting rights.

CARACAS — Juan Guaidó’s interim presidency of Venezuela will soon reach its third year in a most weathered and worn-out state.

CARACAS — Venezuelan citizens prepare themselves for another diminished Christmas in 2021. After a year full of political stagnation, sham elections, ongoing gasoline shortages, collapsed public utilities – and every other symptom of the country’s larger condition, socialism – it’s time for a moment of respite, brief as it may be.

Several of the world’s free nations will greet the year 2022 under the immediate threat of conquest by authoritarian forces, either through military invasion or subversion from within.

Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro announced on Monday that he would begin a 15-day backpacking vacation with his wife and “first combatant” Cilia Flores, telling Venezuelans, “forget about me for 15 days.”

CARACAS — For years, the socialist regime of Venezuela has attempted to wage an ideological war against the United States and its “imperialist and capitalist anti-values” that, according to them, are the root of all of Venezuela’s cultural and societal problems.

On Saturday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends,” Boston Celtics center Enes Kanter Freedom discussed his criticism of Venezuela’s dictatorship and said that he’s going to use his platform to call out “all the dictatorships around the

Boston Celtics center Enes Kanter Freedom expanded his campaign against leftist authoritarian regimes on Tuesday night, debuting on the court a pair of sneakers in honor of the 6 million refugees created by the socialist dictatorship in Venezuela.

Longtime Venezuelan statesman Julio Borges resigned from his position as top diplomat for President Juan Guaidó on Sunday, asserting Guaidó’s administration “should disappear completely” and the formal opposition to dictator Nicolás Maduro had established a “sort of caste” system.

State television network Venezolana de Televisión (VTV) debuted a bizarre cartoon series this week titled Super Mustache in which socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro blocks an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack on the country by former President Donald Trump.

CARACAS — Inflation is a fearsome beast, and it’s plagued my country, Venezuela, for longer than I’ve existed.

The ruling United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) swept 20 of 23 governorships in the country, and control over the Caracas federal district, on Sunday in a characteristically fraudulent and violent election – this time with the blessing of the socialist “opposition.”

CARACAS — Venezuela will hold regional elections on November 21. This time around, “the people” will “elect” 3,082 men and women – split across the country’s 23 governor seats, 335 mayoral offices, and thousands of state legislators.

Doctors expressed alarm and urged monitoring participants in a 12,000-person-strong attempt to break the Guinness World Record for world’s largest orchestra in Venezuela this weekend, the outlet Runrunes reported on Tuesday, citing coronavirus concerns.

Venezuela’s socialist regime began administering a Cuban state-made coronavirus vaccine candidate to children as young as two years old on Monday, Venezuela’s state-owned La Radio del Sur reported.

An exposé published Monday by La Patilla estimated that as many as 80 percent of traffic lights in Maracaibo, Venezuela – the second-largest city in the country – are not functional, in need of repair or simply unusable due to residents looting electric wires to use at home.

The socialist regime of Venezuela has begun to implement its own version of a Chinese Coronavirus digital vaccine passport in the form of a new “stoplight” restriction system through one of its existing apps.

Sandinista dictator Daniel Ortega declared victory on Monday in a presidential race the head of the Organization of American States (OAS) decried as the “worst election possible – marred by the arrest of all other viable candidates, ban on reputable election observers, and widespread reports of violence.

The International Criminal Court (ICC) announced on Wednesday it would launch a formal investigation into allegations of crimes against humanity in Venezuela but signed a memorandum of understanding with the offending party, the socialist regime of dictator Nicolás Maduro, that guarantees the regime will have a say in investigating itself.

Italy’s left-populist Five Star Movement (M5S) is under investigation by prosecutors in Milan over allegations of receiving millions of euros of illicit funds from the Venezuelan consul in 2010.

An anonymous hacker collective revealed the names of alleged Hezbollah terrorists living in Venezuela on Tuesday, accusing them of profiting from drug and human trafficking there after arriving as “students.”

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is expected to meet Tuesday and consider a proposal to extend coronavirus vaccinations making 28 million younger children down to age five eligible for the shots in November.

The Venezuelan government on Saturday cut off negotiations with both the United States and the Venezuelan opposition after businessman Alex Saab, a close ally of socialist dictator Nicolas Maduro, was extradited to the U.S. to face money laundering charges.