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Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza told reporters this week that his boss, dictator Nicolás Maduro, would attend the annual Summit of the Americas despite being disinvited, with the aid of other leftist governments in the hemisphere.

The communist dictatorship in North Korea has expressed its “firm support and solidarity” to Nicolás Maduro’s regime in Venezuela in a message published in its state media arm this week.

Last year saw a steep rise in crackdowns against press freedom in Venezuela, which involved a decline in freedom of expression, censorship, and the closure of independent media outlets, according to a new report.

Venezuelan presidential candidate Henri Falcón has written an op-ed in the New York Times claiming his campaign will win an “avalanche of votes” that will “sweep [Nicolás] Maduro out of power.” 

Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro has begun purging high-rankings members of his military who have expressed their opposition to his failed socialist regime.

The Venezuelan secret police (Sebin) stormed the house of imprisoned opposition leader Leopoldo López hours after the New York Times ran a major profile of him, his wife Lilian Tintori has confirmed.

Dictator Nicolás Maduro postponed Venezuela’s upcoming presidential election to May 20, claiming this would provide a number of “electoral guarantees,” the country’s National Electoral Council (NEC) announced on Thursday.

Henri Falcón – a former governor, Hugo Chávez supporter, and the leader of the “Progressive Advance” party – has announced his candidacy in the illegitimate Venezuelan presidential election scheduled for April 22.

Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro shared a video of him on Monday rescuing a “disoriented” sloth that had reportedly gotten lost, angering many following the worst humanitarian crisis in the nation’s history. “This story has a happy ending,” Maduro wrote on

The newspaper El Nacional highlights a growing stray dog problem plaguing the streets of Venezuela’s cities this week, triggered by impoverished residents unable to afford dog food and vaccines releasing their animals into the wild.

A new national cryptocurrency launched by Nicolás Maduro’s socialist regime in Venezuela has failed to provide evidence of having raised any money at all.

Venezuelan prisoners are eating rats and pigeons as a means of survival as food supplies continue to dissipate in the failed socialist state, according to a report published this weekend.

The human rights crisis in Venezuela has further deteriorated as socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro seeks to destroy all opposition and turn the country into a one-party state.

Flooded with an influx of impoverished Venezuelan refugees fleeing the socialist failed state, Brazil has begun to implement a plan to relocate and assimilate hundreds of them throughout the nation.

Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro has proposed holding a mega-election in order to provide a sense of “democratic renewal” as he continues to govern the country by decree.

An increasingly isolated Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro urged President Donald Trump to engage in a “dialogue” with him as soon as possible, shortly before the opening of the Summit of the Americas, which Maduro has threatened to attend despite not being invited.

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari welcomed Venezuela’s top diplomat to the country this week, just as Abuja honors North Korea with floral arrangements to honor Kim Jong-Il and Eternal President Kim Il-Sung.

Growing numbers of Venezuelan parents are dumping their children in Colombian border towns as the failed socialist state’s humanitarian crisis continues to deepen.

Venezuela’s state-run oil company Petroleum of Venezuela (PDSVA) is reportedly experiencing a mass labor shortage following the resignation of thousands of employees.

Venezuela’s leading state prosecutor Tarek William Saab has claimed that the neighboring country of Colombia is planning a “military invasion” as the country’s humanitarian and political crisis continues to worsen.

Contents: Parents send kids to orphanages as Venezuela’s oil production collapse; Colombia and Brazil close borders to refugees from Venezuela; Venezuela fears a military ‘invasion’ by Colombia and U.S.

Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda of the International Criminal Court announced on Thursday that she has launched preliminary probes of police and security forces in the Philippines and Venezuela, which have been accused of using excessive force against suspected drug traffickers and political demonstrators, respectively.

The Trump administration issued a statement Thursday supporting the Venezuelan opposition’s rejection of a sudden presidential election called by dictator Nicolás Maduro, excoriating Maduro for not being “courageous enough” to hold a free and fair election.

Brazil is observing the development of a growing number of poverty-stricken favelas, or slums, as thousands of Venezuelans emigrate amid from country’s unprecedented economic and humanitarian crisis.

An organization representing Venezuelan exiles have urged the Trump administration to impose an “urgent” oil embargo on the country’s ruling socialist dictatorship.

The economic catastrophe triggered by nearly two decades of socialist policies in Venezuela has rendered the nation’s political landscape unrecognizable.

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has hinted that the Venezuelan military could oust socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro as the country’s political, economic, and humanitarian crisis reaches devastating proportions. Speaking at the University of Texas ahead of his five-stop Latin America tour,

Venezuelan socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro’s grip on power is slipping as his regime is now failing to provide adequate food supplies to its loyal military apparatus.

Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro debuted a logo for his upcoming presidential campaign that violates the nation’s electoral laws, and he illegally used public television to promote himself this weekend in anticipation of a presidential election few believe will yield legitimate results.

A Venezuelan baseball star has died from a bout of pneumonia after failing to receive adequate medical treatment amid the country’s deepening humanitarian crisis.

Venezuela’s regime-controlled Supreme Court has banned the main opposition coalition from running in the upcoming presidential election.

The socialist regime of dictator Nicolás Maduro has declared Spanish Ambassador to Venezuela Jesús Silva Fernández persona non grata and given him 72 hours to leave the country.

The top lawmakers on a Senate panel, in a rare show of bipartisanship, urged the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to launch an investigation into “credible allegations” of drug trafficking activities linked to the regime of Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro that may be fueling the drug overdose epidemic in America.

Pro-socialist vandals targeted the walls of Venezuela’s Cumaná Cathedral and its surroundings with threatening anti-Catholic messages Tuesday night, referring to Cumaná’s archbishop as “Monsignor Satan” after dictator Nicolás Maduro targeted the clergyman in a television broadcast this week.

Venezuela’s monthly minimum wage is now under one dollar a month amid the worst economic and humanitarian crisis in the country’s history.

Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro called early presidential elections on Tuesday, set to occur before the end of April.