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.
Protests across Venezuela are quickly becoming acts of civil disobedience rather than politically organized movements, El Nacional reports.
Venezuela’s foreign minister Samuel Moncada announced Tuesday that the socialist government would conduct a “profound review” of U.S.-Venezuela relations after President Donald Trump referred to head of state Nicolás Maduro as a “bad leader who dreams of becoming a dictator” and threatening further sanctions.
President Donald Trump has sent out another clear message on the worsening political and humanitarian crisis in Venezuela, promising “strong and swift economic actions” should socialist leader Nicolás Maduro push ahead with plans to create a non-elected “constituent assembly.”
In yet another attack on the Catholic faithful, socialist colectivo gangs stormed the Carmen Church in Caracas, Venezuela Sunday, holding Archbishop of Caracas Jorge Urosa Savino and hundreds of worshippers hostage for hours.
Millions of Venezuelans from around the world voted against the socialist government’s plans to rewrite the country’s constitution on Sunday, as the country’s humanitarian crisis deepens.
As the United Nations urges nearby countries to take more responsibility for refugees from the famine-stricken socialist experiment in Venezuela, it is failing to put any significant pressure on President Nicolás Maduro’s government for its appalling human rights record – made worse by Venezuela’s continued presence on the U.N.’s Human Rights Council.
Further protests are taking place in Venezuela over increasing shortages of medicine, causing thousands of preventable deaths, the Associated Press has reported.
As socialist Venezuela’s economic woes continue, many Venezuelans are struggling to afford the most basic of hygiene products, such as toothpaste, a report from The Washington Post reveals.
Venezuelans have congregated in a Caracas neighborhood to protest the death of a boy with Down syndrome, who reports claim police shot to death after he reflexively fled the scene of law enforcement activity.
The Episcopal Conference of Venezuela (CEV) has published a letter sent to dictator Nicolás Maduro demanding he cancel a plan to draft a new socialist constitution, following remarks by Monsignor Diego Padrón referring to Maduro’s government as a “dictatorship.”
On Sunday, Venezuela’s opposition marked one hundred days since a series of daily protests against the socialist government, triggered by the Supreme Court’s aborted attempt to replace the National Assembly and install itself as the national legislative body.
The Supreme Court of Venezuela granted opposition leader Leopoldo López house arrest – freeing him from the notorious Ramo Verde military prison – this weekend on medical grounds. Following his release, wife Lilian Tintori accused prison officials of torturing López and denying him medical care.
Gov. Rick Scott (FL) has suggested that any business within the state of Florida dealing with the Venezuelan government should have their license revoked as the country’s leader, Nicolás Maduro, ramps up repression against his people.
More than three months into a wave of daily anti-socialist protests, Reuters reports that the government of Venezuela has arrested at least 123 armed forces servicemen for a variety of crimes, including traditional crime like larceny and political crimes like “treason.”
The Venezuelan helicopter pilot who allegedly attacked the country’s Supreme Court building last month resurfaced Wednesday in a video vowing to carry on fighting for the “liberation” of his country from the Maduro dictatorship.
Socialist chavista gangs known as “colectivos” stormed Venezuela’s National Assembly Wednesday – the nation’s Independence Day – and kept hundreds of legislators and journalists hostage for eight hours, according to people who were later released.
A reporter for the state-run television channel Venezuelan Television (VTC) referred to the country’s leadership as a “dictatorship,” in a seemingly rare moment of honesty from the pro-government network.
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has raised the country’s minimum wage by 50 percent amid soaring inflation that has rendered its currency practically worthless.
Venezuelan Attorney General Luisa Ortega Diaz, a former loyalist to the late dictator Hugo Chávez, has charged the former head of the country’s national guard with “serious and systematic” human rights violations, her office announced on Thursday.
Photos from inside Venezuela have shown people participating in mass looting as a means of survival, including stealing entire vending machines and carrying them through the streets.
CARACAS, Venezuela – Universities in America are usually known as hotbeds of left-wing activism, but at the Universidad Central de Venezuela (UCD), where education is free and socialist policies have been in place for nearly 20 years, many students are now looking to the right for answers.
Former U.N. ambassador John Bolton appeared on Thursday’s Breitbart News Daily to talk about the Supreme Court’s opinion on President Trump’s immigration order, the White House warning to Syria on chemical weapons, North Korea’s claim that President Trump’s “American First” platform is “a version of Nazism,” and the collapse of Venezuela.
Dramatic images of a police helicopter flying over Caracas, Venezuela, began circulating on social media Tuesday evening, with dictator Nicolás Maduro claiming that the helicopter had shot at and thrown grenades at the headquarters of the nation’s Supreme Court.
The Santa Rosa de Lima church in Venezuela’s capital, Caracas, is reeling from a looting that left an altar of Mary destroyed and the church without its tools to perform Communion, including the Eucharist and chalice used to take in the holy wine.
At a meeting of the Organization of American States (OAS) this week, international diplomats had the chance to send a clear message to Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro that his authoritarian rule must end.
Countries attending the Organization of American States summit in Cancun on Monday failed to reach an agreement on asking Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro to scrap his plans to rewrite the country’s constitution.
The Brazilian government has suspended sales of tear gas to Venezuela amid increasing police violence, Reuters has reported.
CARACAS, Venezuela – Driving through the streets of Caracas, it is impossible not to notice the ubiquitous government propaganda on the sides of buildings and scores of armed police. Even harder to avoid, however, is the garbage. On almost every street
A 14-year-old boy was “run over and tortured” by an armored vehicle driven by the Venezuelan National Guard in the city of Mérida, according to opposition politician José Manuel Olivares.
Cuban dissident leaders who protested President Barack Obama’s “normalization” concessions to the Castro regime are eagerly awaiting President Donald Trump’s anticipated rollback of these reforms, expecting Trump to be “fair to dissidents and the exile community.”
The mother of an American man wrongfully imprisoned in Venezuela says she is hopeful the Trump administration may soon secure the release of her son after the return of 22-year-old student Otto Warmbier to the United States this week from North Korea.
In a major stand-off between Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro and the Catholic bishops of the country, both groups have appealed to Pope Francis for his support and mediation of the conflict.
Waiting to check in for my flight at Caracas airport on Wednesday, security services stopped me, demanding a full search of my belongings.
In an interview with the Cuban-American news outlet Martí this week, Congressman Mario Díaz-Balart (R-FL) said President Donald Trump’s soon-to-be-unveiled Cuba policy will center around promoting “the freedom of the Cuban people” and treating the Castro regime as the “narco-terrorist tyranny” that it is.
Former President Barack Obama’s administration “systematically disbanded” U.S. efforts to disrupt terrorist activity in the Western Hemisphere linked to Iran and proxy Hezbollah, a former American counterterrorism official told Congress.
On the Tuesday edition of Breitbart News Daily, broadcast live on SiriusXM Patriot Channel 125 from 6AM to 9AM Eastern, Breitbart London Editor-in-Chief Raheem Kassam will be discussing the fallout from the march in Manchester as well as the deteriorating situation in
CARACAS, Venezuela – Even at Bogotá airport in Colombia, the closest major capital city to Venezuela, a look of curiosity comes over the faces of staff when you tell them you are heading to Caracas. Entry visas into Venezuela remain
As Venezuela enters year eighteen of the Bolivarian Socialist Revolution, the international community is finally paying attention, as Venezuelans struggle to find food, medicine, and an outlet for their frustration that will not trigger rampant state violence.
As the one-year anniversary of his arrest on charges largely considered falsified approaches, American Joshua Holt continues to languish in a Venezuelan prison. His family, the Miami Herald reports this week, says he has grown “depressed and angry,” losing weight as his health deteriorates in prison.
