Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro did not attend a hearing at the nation’s legislature Tuesday, to which he was summoned for gross violations of the Constitution in his treatment of the opposition.
The members of Venezuela’s legislature, the National Assembly, arrived at work Thursday morning to find that the socialist government had shut the congressional building’s lights off and police were blockading their entry.
Following the government’s decision to dismiss a constitutional recall petition to remove Nicolás Maduro as president, Venezuela’s anti-socialist opposition staged massive nationwide protests on Wednesday. Maduro’s government, despite just having agreed to “talks,” responded with widespread violence against peaceful protesters.
The Venezuelan National Assembly has passed a declaration demanding dictator President Nicolás Maduro appear before the legislature to defend himself against accusations of having overridden the Venezuela’s Constitution to remain in power, causing the collapse of the Venezuelan economy and using violence to suppress political dissidents.
As hundreds of Chavista thugs stormed Venezuela’s National Assembly following the declaration of a state of dictatorship in the country, Pope Francis received said dictator, Nicolás Maduro, at the Vatican and announced a mediator role in “talks” between Maduro’s socialist regime and opposition legislators.
The head of Venezuela’s anti-socialist opposition in the legislature denounced an attempt to “lynch” multiple lawmakers by a mob of about 300 Chavistas following the legislature’s decision to declare an aberration from the constitutional order and accuse president Nicolás Maduro of a coup d’etat.
A recall vote against Venezuela’s socialist president, Nicolas Maduro, has been crushed by the government, less than a week before the next stage in the process was scheduled to begin.
Anti-socialist legislators in Venezuela have released a report finding that the nation’s state-run oil corporation, Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA), is missing $11 billion unaccounted for in the past decade.
Venezuela’s morgues are woefully lacking in preservation chemicals, air conditioning, and essential supplies, resulting in the rapid decay of dozens of bodies, some even exploding as part of the decomposition process.
The parents of multiple late prisoners in the western state of Táchira, Venezuela, say the government did nothing to stop a notorious cannibal from killing and eating their children – and forcing other prisoners to eat human flesh or face
Moscow has reportedly accused the United States of “taking aggressive steps” that “pose a threat” to Russian “national security.”
The Russian Defense Ministry announced that it is planning to upgrade its naval base in the Syrian port city of Tartus into a permanent facility, a move that comes as the Kremlin has expressed interest in erecting military bases in Latin America and Egypt, as well as reopening Soviet-era facilities in Vietnam and Cuba.
Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro, protesting the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize going to neighboring head of state Juan Manuel Santos, has announced the launch of the “Hugo Chávez Award for Peace and Sovereignty of the Peoples.”
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Actor Jamie Foxx has met with President Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela.
Venezuela has largely run out of food. It has also run out of medicine and basics like toilet paper, soap, and laundry detergent. The situation has become so dire after 17 years of socialist rule, CNN reports, that Venezuelans with the means to do so are now traveling to the United States just to stock up on food and toilet paper.
Members of the Venezuelan anti-socialist opposition are warning that the peace deal with the Marxist terror group FARC in neighboring Colombia could result in a flood of absolved terrorists looking to rebuild their operation in Venezuela, a nation already bludgeoned by the world’s highest inflation rate and a severe food shortage.
The beauty queen praised by Democratic Presidential Candidate Hillary Clinton during this week’s debate appears to have birthed a love child with one of Mexico’s most dangerous drug lords.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry met the head of state of socialist Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, during Monday’s ceremony to celebrate an amnesty deal between the government of Colombia and the terrorist group FARC. During the meeting, Kerry expressed extreme concern with Maduro’s mismanagement of the country, offering to “work constructively” with Venezuela.
TEL AVIV – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Sunday blamed the recent spate of terror attacks against Israelis on “martyrs” who had “lost hope.”
Speaking at a rally in Miami, Florida, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump vowed to reverse the myriad concessions to the Cuban communist regime made under President Barack Obama and stand “with the oppressed people of Venezuela” in their struggle to rid their country of socialism.
A new study finds Venezuela on the brink of famine, with an alarming fifteen percent of citizens saying they can only feed themselves with “food waste discarded by commercial establishments,” while nearly half say they have had to take time off work to search for food.
During a broadcast this weekend promoting new socialist food distribution policies, Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro jokingly referenced a popular nickname for the nation’s dire food shortages, telling a crowd, “Maduro’s diet gets you hard – no need for Viagra!”
A new report indicates increasing concern among high-ranking officials in China that Venezuela’s economy may soon collapse, dragging an assortment of Chinese investment projects down with it.
The mother of an American citizen arrested for “espionage” in Venezuela says her son’s health is deteriorating rapidly, he has not received due process, and there is evidence to believe the socialist government framed him to take an American prisoner.
With the nation on the brink of famine, reports are surfacing that the socialist government of Venezuela may soon begin to limit the distribution of food in a town where protesters personally confronted President Nicolás Maduro, forcing him to leave.
Faced with what the opposition is calling, “the largest mobilization of people in the political history of Venezuela,” the nation’s socialist government is using violent police tactics, roving Chavista gangs, and “secret police” arrests of prominent dissidents to attempt to silence dissent.
Jihad Ahmad Diyab — former detainee at the U.S. Guantánamo Bay detention center and, until recently, Latin American fugitive — may be planning a “hunger strike,” demanding the small nation of Uruguay pay to reunite him with his family in the Middle East.
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In anticipation of a major rally against the socialist government Thursday, Venezuelan police rounded up and deported journalists affiliated with the Miami Herald, Le Monde, Al Jazeera, and the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). “As soon as I stepped off the plane
The government of Venezuela has confirmed the abduction of human rights activist Yon Goicoechea, accusing him of amassing explosive materials on television without confirming the existence of a warrant or evidence against him.
On Monday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Lead,” Laurie Holt, the mother of Mormon missionary Joshua Holt, who has been held prisoner in Venezuela since June 30, stated that despite “numerous” attempts to contact officials, “I haven’t heard from anybody as
The Brazilian magazine Veja has published what it claims to be an official Venezuelan government document authorizing the purchase of multiple chemicals used to make weapons from the government of Iran, a violation of UN sanctions, in 2009.
Colombian officials warn of an “invasion” of illegal immigrants following the deportation of 33 Venezuelans. The South American country’s border with Venezuela was recently re-opened. Venezuela is facing massive economic problems with its failing, socialist economy.
In a harrowing story highlighting the growing hunger rates in socialist Venezuela, the family of a five-year-old boy has filed charges against a 16-year-old who allegedly asked the young child for sex in exchange for an arepa, a traditional Venezuelan corn bread.
Images of starved Venezuelans looking to feed their families by any means necessary have become increasingly commonplace as the nation’s socialist government continues to crash its economy. The most recent of these incidents involves surveillance video showing the swift mass looting of a bakery.
Jihad Ahmad Diyab, a former Guantánamo Bay detainee who went missing earlier this summer after leaving Uruguay, where he was given refugee status, is reportedly being kept incommunicado in a Venezuelan secret prison. His attorney fears he has taken up a hunger strike.
From October 2015 to June 2016, Venezuelans filed 10,221 applications for asylum. By comparison, over that same period last fiscal year — October 2014 to June 2015 — just 3,810 Venezuelans filed applications for asylum in the U.S.
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“Sterilization Day” is becoming one of the most popular days for a clinic near Caracas, Venezuela, as the growing threat of famine leads women in a nation where birth control has been unattainable for months to abandon their dreams of motherhood.
Jihad Ahmad Diyab, a former Guantánamo Bay detainee who was released to Uruguay as part of a deal between the White House and the socialist government of former President José Mujica, has surfaced in Venezuela after his disappearance a month ago. He is demanding to be flown to Turkey to reunite with his Syrian family.