Venezuelan socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro has appointed Aragua state governor Tareck El Aissami the nation’s new vice president. Multiple reports have linked El Aissami to both a major cocaine trafficking outlet and the jihadi terror organization Hezbollah.
Starved Venezuelans looking for an escape from the socialist tyranny controlling the government of their homeland have begun to flee in droves, challenging the immigration agencies of nations around the world.
An extensive Associated Press report unveiled that Venezuela’s military, now in full control of all food that enters the country, has been reselling it at astronomical markups.
Venezuelans have been crossing over the border into Brazil in search of food and medical care as Brazilian hospitals struggle to keep up with the influx of new patients.
The military under the socialist regime of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is capitalizing on the misery of the people they are sworn to protect by running illegal markets that sell food at 100 times the government-set price while much of the South American country finds itself on the verge of starvation, the Associated Press (AP) has learned.
2016 was a difficult year in many parts of the world for those who sought to be different under authoritarian regimes. Whether Communists, Islamists, or the religious intolerance of their own families, these individuals took a stand and, in some cases, paid the ultimate price to advocate for freedom.
The southern California congressman who was on the short list to become President-elect Donald J. Trump’s secretary of state told Breitbart News, when President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi pulled his country’s United Nations resolution condemning Israel at Trump’s request, he proved he was a friend of the United States.
Venezuelan government statistics revealed this month show that 4,156 people were killed in incidents labeled “resistance against authorities” between January and September 2016. Venezuela’s police have been accused of torture and beatings of dissidents, as well as raids of political opponents’ offices and keeping dissidents as prisoners of conscience.
An attorney representing Joshua Holt, an American arrested in Venezuela under dubious “terrorism” charges, says she has not been allowed to see him for most of December, since the fourth scheduled hearing the judge in his case chose not to attend.
Venezuelan Socialist Party Vice President Diosdado Cabello – the second most powerful socialist in the country – has flatly denied news reports of rampant looting and violence in Bolívar state, where police arrested hundreds for attacking markets, restaurants, convenience stores, and private residences.
Shiite Iran’s narco-jihadist proxy Hezbollah is operating a “virtually unopposed drug trafficking operation” in South America with links to the terrorist group Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), reports the bipartisan House Task Force to Investigate Terrorism Financing.
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The government of China has demanded that Venezuela make an effort to “restore social order” following a string of attacks against Chinese-owned businesses in cities like Bolívar, where the socialist government’s decision to invalidate the nation’s highest-denomination bolívar bill triggered riots that damaged hundreds of storefronts.
On the latest edition of In Contact with Maduro, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro’s television show, the socialist food distribution groups known as the CLAP debuted a personalized Christmas carol celebrating Maduro’s decision to allow Venezuelans to use 100 bolívar bills through January.
Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro has announced he will allow Venezuelans to continue using the 100 bolívar bill — outlawed last week because of inflation — until January.
Venezuelans are looting shops, desperately lining up at banks, and burning their highest-denomination bolívar bills following a failure by President Nicolás Maduro to distribute new bills in light of the nation’s official descent into hyperinflation.
Venezuelan foreign minister Delcy Rodríguez broke through a barrage of police and economic officials in Buenos Aires, Argentina, earlier this week in an attempt to storm into a meeting of the South American trade bloc Mercosur, which has suspended Venezuela’s membership due to its repeated violations of human rights.
Local councils and national welfare groups in Venezuela have confirmed an increase in parents giving away their children due to the economic crisis ravaging the country.
Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro has temporarily closed the Colombian border in an attempt to “destroy the mafia,” whom he claims are taking advantage of the country’s faltering economy.
A new report in Bloomberg reveals that U.S. authorities are investigating evidence suggesting that the socialist government of Venezuela paid Iran “hundreds of millions” as part of a money laundering scheme designed to avoid human rights sanctions imposed on the Islamic Republic.
A study finds that more than 2.4 million Venezuelans resort to eating garbage to survive, as video of this phenomenon surfaces – Venezuelans patiently waiting for markets to throw away their rotted produce and dig for anything remotely edible.
The Venezuelan government has seized nearly 4 million toys from a private company in order to hand them out to poor children this holiday season.
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Venezuela’s anti-socialist opposition has skipped a third meeting with the government mediated by the Vatican as the Socialist Party’s second-in-command chides Pope Francis for being “disrespectful,” in a sign that the Vatican’s role in attempting to bring an end to Venezuela’s woes has changed little.
Women living in Venezuela’s border region are flocking into neighboring Colombia to sell their hair, sometimes for as little as $20 a head.
The wives and mother of two political prisoners in Venezuela have chained themselves to the gates of the Vatican to demand Pope Francis intervene for the swift liberation of their loved ones, the former mayor of Caracas and the head of one of its largest opposition parties.
Venezuela said it would start issuing higher denominations of currency as the country faces triple-digit inflation and a currency meltdown that reduced the value of the country’s largest note to 2 U.S. cents.
On Friday night, Cuba’s Communist dictator Raúl Castro announced the death of elder brother and predecessor Fidel Castro at the age of 90. While the younger Castro has imposed a mandatory nine-day mourning period in Havana, the exile community 90 miles away wasted no time in celebrating.
CARACAS, Venezuela – Under the rule of charismatic revolutionary dictator Hugo Chávez, Venezuela positioned itself as the one of the world’s most prominent socialist ‘havens,’ with Chávez regularly expressing an extremely hostile approach to what he described as ‘US imperialism.’
Representatives of Venezuela’s socialist government reportedly abandoned talks with the opposition on Tuesday in a move one opposition member argued made a “mockery of the pope,” who vouched for the talks.
Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro said he “aspires, expects, and will work for” a friendly relationship with President-elect Donald Trump, despite Trump emphasizing support for Venezuela’s anti-socialist opposition in his campaign platform.
The socialist government of Venezuela has been torturing U.S. citizen Joshua Holt in prison, forcing him to violate his Mormon faith and perform “calisthenics” naked in the hallways of the prison, according to Holt’s family.
“Leopoldo López will remain in prison because he is a murderer,” Diosdado Cabello, the second most powerful socialist in Venezuela, said amid laughs on his television show on Saturday, referring to an opposition leader who counted his 1,000th day in prison on Sunday.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, facing his own anti-Islamist resistance at home, called Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro on Wednesday to express his support for the socialist regime and the calls for “dialogue” with the opposition, many of whom Maduro has imprisoned.
As many observers have noted, the election of Donald Trump to the U.S. presidency is the latest in a series of seismic global political shifts. Many of those have occurred oceans away, from Western Europe to the Middle East to Asia.
The democratic election of Republican Donald Trump to the U.S. presidency has trigged a bizarre backlash against America’s free and fair election in the radical leftist communities native to the country’s big cities.
Chinese President Xi Jinping is heading to Latin America next week — Ecuador, Peru, and Chile — while Chinese diplomats have scheduled a December meeting with Venezuelan counterparts.
The media arm of the Venezuelan socialist government has laid its markers in what is sure to be a relentless war of words against the future government of President-Elect Donald Trump, labeling him “a genuine representative of American imperialism,” whose victory will herald in the collapse of the United States.
The parents of an American being held hostage in Venezuela published a stern column condemning the Obama administration’s treatment of the families of hostages, arguing that the government only helps those families with the skill to navigate the “byzantine bureaucracy of the U.S. government.”
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro – now legally declared a dictator following the illegal suppression of a constitutional recall against him – launched a new tropical music radio program this week titled Salsa Time.
