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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Bestselling author and filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza met with White House Chief Strategist Stephen K. Bannon and Deputy Adviser to the President Sebastian Gorka at the White House on Friday.

Former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton spoke to Breitbart News Daily Sirius XM host Raheem Kassam, asserting the crisis in Venezuela should be seen as part of a larger regional problem.

LONDON (AFP) – Outspoken former London mayor Ken Livingstone on Thursday suggested that one of the causes of Venezuela’s current crisis was that former president Hugo Chavez “didn’t kill all the oligarchs”.

Turnout figures in Venezuela’s constituent assembly election on Sunday were inflated by at least one million votes, according to the company that has provided the country with its voting system since 2004.

Deputy Adviser to the President Dr. Sebastian Gorka, formerly national security editor for Breitbart News, discussed the dismal Venezuelan dictatorship of Nicolas Maduro with SiriusXM host Raheem Kassam on Wednesday’s Breitbart News Daily.

The White House joined a number of other countries in condemning Sunday’s sham election in Venezuela and calling for the immediate release of two of the country’s imprisoned opposition leaders.

“The only way you are getting rid of this Parliament is by killing the 112 representatives who are here,” opposition lawmaker Freddy Guevara said on Tuesday, asserting that Venezuela’s National Assembly will not give up their seats to the socialist parallel legislature dictator Nicolás Maduro is scheduled to install on August 3.

The Venezuelan Episcopal Conference (CEV) has publicly invoked the intercession of the Virgin Mary to free the nation “from the claws of communism,” in a clear reference to the regime of President Nicolás Maduro.

Marco Rubio gave a televised address broadcast throughout Venezuela on Globovisión on Monday to express solidarity with the Venezuelan people following a sham election designed to tighten socialist dictator Nicolas Maduro’s grip on power.

Venezuela’s Secret Police (Sebin) stormed the homes of opposition leader Leopoldo López and rightful mayor of Caracas Antonio Ledezma early Tuesday morning, taking the two men away over alleged violations of their house arrest provisions.

Venezuela’s dictator Nicolás Maduro has responded to U.S. sanctions banning him from the country Monday with an outrageous tirade in which he claimed the White House was in the hands of the Ku Klux Klan and calling the sanctions a sign of America’s “impotence, desperation, and hate.”

Venezuela now teeters on the brink of civil war following a sham election that will turn the country into a socialist dictatorship led by Nicolas Maduro.

An NGO documenting police repression in Venezuela announced on Monday that the government arrested 96 people during Sunday’s vote for a parallel legislature, adding to over a dozen known deaths amid police attacks on protesters Sunday.

The Trump administration has placed personal sanctions on Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro in response to Sunday’s fraudulent election designed to further his grip on power.

The socialist government of Venezuela has declared its election Sunday to create a parallel legislature to rewrite the constitution a popular success, despite reports of low turnout and at least 13 dead in clashes between protesters and the military.

The United States ordered the family members of employees at the embassy in Venezuela to leave the country Thursday and gave embassy personnel themselves the option to leave if they wish, as a vote that could either wipe out the last vestiges of democracy or unleash a full-blown civil war rapidly approaches.

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) signaled Thursday that resolving the ongoing humanitarian and political crisis in Venezuela remains a “personal priority” for the Trump administration.

The violinist Willy Arteaga, who has become a symbol for Venezuela’s struggle for democracy, was arrested on Wednesday during an opposition protest in Caracas, local reports have confirmed.

The socialist government of Venezuela has banned “public assemblies and protests,” threatening up to ten years in prison for anyone participating in them, following nearly five months of daily protests against the government.

Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro has again attempted to send President Donald Trump an English-language message during a rally, insisting that his nation will hold an illegal vote to draft a socialist-friendly constitution and insisting that “Mister Emperator Trump … go home.”

Following a series of infuriated social media posts by Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee, the artists responsible for the breakout summer pop hit “Despacito,” Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro once again used the song to promote his regime this week.

Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro staged an elaborate ceremony Wednesday to applaud the thirteen socialist officials named in the latest round of U.S. Treasury sanctions against the regime, intended to punish the government for its gratuitous human rights abuses against unarmed protesters.

The flow of Venezuelans across the Colombian border is quickly becoming an exodus amid the country’s worsening humanitarian crisis, as well as fears of the creation of a “constituent assembly” that will codify the country’s dictatorship into a new constitution.

The Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), Luis Almagro, has appointed a special investigator to determine whether the Venezuelan government has committed crimes against humanity.

Venezuela’s government has spent at least $7.8 million on Washington lobbyists in an attempt to prop up its oil revenues since 2013 amidst the country’s deepening economic and humanitarian crisis, a report from the Miami Herald revealed.

Socialist dictator Nicolas Maduro of Venezuela has offered his opponents a deal to delay the upcoming Constitutional Assembly elections for 45 days, giving the opposition a chance to participate, and hold a new presidential election in exchange for their help lobbying against U.S. sanctions.

Former socialist Spanish president Jose Luis Rodríguez Zapatero told Venezuelan opposition leader Leopoldo López this week that dictator Nicolás Maduro is willing to postpone a vote to elect drafters of a new constitution if the opposition offers a “cooling off” of protests, according to the Miami Herald.

Pictures have emerged of the Venezuelan military presenting soldiers with toilet paper rolls in what appears to be a reward for their loyalty.

Venezuela’s socialist president Nicolas Maduro has debuted his own socialist remix of the record-breaking hit Spanish-language single “Despacito.”

The value of the bolívar, the currency of crisis-stricken Venezuela, dropped to new lows this weekend and has now lost 99.9 percent of its value against the U.S. dollar since 2010.

Venezuela’s socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro vowed Sunday to go forward with a vote to elect representatives to draft a new constitution intended to cement his stranglehold on power despite international condemnation and pressure to cancel plans to do so.

Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro is attempting to stage a coup by imposing a new to-be-written constitution on a nation in which there is no functional divide between civilian and military rule, a Venezuelan opposition spokesman told Breitbart News.

An official representative of Primero Justicia, the largest opposition party in Venezuela, told Breitbart News this week that the nation’s anti-socialist opposition is “completely united” against dictator Nicolás Maduro and “ready to assume government.”

Over one hundred people protested outside Congress on Wednesday to call for the liberation of Venezuela and Cuba from socialist rule.

During a meeting between members of Congress on the worsening crisis in Venezuela, Sen. Marco Rubio has claimed that the country’s National Assembly leader Diosdado Cabello is the new “Pablo Escobar.”

Luis Almagro, the head of the Organization of American States (OAS), told a Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee Wednesday that Venezuela was “the most corrupt country on the continent” and called for further sanctions to weaken the “illegitimate” socialist regime there.