Socialist Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has used his primetime television show to condemn Pokemon Go, accusing the game of promoting “the culture of violence of capitalism” and linking a jihadist attack in Munich to the Japanese mobile phone game.
Venezuelan hospitals have been forced to tell patients to bring their own bandages, gauze, and medicine as they run out of basic supplies, with doctors picking and choosing only the emergency room cases they believe they can help because of the limited equipment they have.
Two of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro’s nephews have confessed to attempting to traffic 800 kilograms of cocaine into New York from Venezuela, identifying the owners of the drugs as the Marxist terrorist group FARC.
McDonald’s has ceased production of its signature Big Mac sandwich in Venezuela, citing a shortage of bread that makes it impossible to mass produce the product. The move, the latest in McDonald’s production woes in the socialist nation, follows President Nicolás Maduro’s order placing the nation’s military in control of the food supply.
A 25-year-old U.S. Air Force lieutenant died Monday in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), from a “non-combat related injury” sustained while supporting Operation Inherent Resolve, the U.S.-led mission against the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) in Iraq and Syria, according to the Pentagon.
For the second time in as many weeks, tens of thousands of Venezuelans flooded the Colombian border town of Cúcuta seeking to buy food and medicine, basic items impossible to find in the increasingly starved socialist nation.
The Venezuelan Episcopal Conference, the organization of the nation’s Catholic bishops, has issued a scathing statement condemning socialist president Nicolás Maduro for giving the military full control of the nation’s food supply, accusing him of being at the helm of a devastating “moral crisis” crippling every aspect of life in Venezuela.
Venezuela’s socialist president Nicolás Maduro has launched the Great Mission of Sovereign Supplying, a program which places the nation’s food supply in the control of the military, who will choose where to distribute the food and monitor ports accepting foreign food supplies.
José Gregorio Vielma Mora, the socialist governor of Venezuela’s western Táchira state, asserted this week that the 35,000 people who took advantage of a limited border opening that allowed them to buy food and medicine in Colombia were not hungry but, rather, desperately crossed the border “for fun.”
The socialist government of Venezuela opened its western border with Colombia for 12 hours this weekend as a means of combatting growing food shortages in the nation. An estimated 35,000 took advantage of the opening to buy basic food items like sugar and flour and to visit relatives they were barred from seeing after a mass deportation last year.
The Pentagon’s special envoy for closing the Guantánamo Bay prison facility, Paul Lewis, insisted on Thursday to Congress that the process of emptying the prison is being done in a “safe and responsible” manner, despite multiple former detainees confirmed to have once again joined jihadist groups.
As Latin America cooperates on a frantic search to find former Guantánamo Bay detainee Jihad Ahmad Diyab, a report suggests the terrorist left Uruguay for Venezuela last month, after authorities had issued a statement claiming he had illegally entered Brazil.
Hundreds of Venezuelan women from the western state of Táchira crossed the border into Colombia illegally, demanding the ability to buy food. Once there, the women purchased basic goods like flour and milk and marched home.
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The bodies of Ericka Ares Luik and her partner Kumar Prasad Bhat were found buried under tons of construction debris with bags on their heads this week. Luik, friends say, was hoping to flee Venezuela, home to the most violent city in the world, for Estonia.
On Friday’s “McLaughlin Group,” The Daily Beast’s Eleanor Clift said that she isn’t sure Venezuela’s economy would be much better “[I]f the capitalists were in charge of the economy,” and that Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro “has taken care of the poor.” Clift stated,
In an in-depth look at the lavish lifestyles of Caracas’ socialism-friendly diplomats and government-sanctioned businessmen, the Daily Mail exposes Venezuela’s exclusive country clubs, located mere miles from the lines of starved civilians awaiting their food rations that have come to define the nation.
After months of increasingly alarming reports out of Venezuela, where the legislature declared a “food emergency” in February, The New York Times has finally shed some light on what appears to be the beginnings of a famine in the oil-rich country, where nearly 90 percent of civilians do not have access to food.
Longtime Los Angeles Dodgers announcer Vin Scully went on a rant about socialism in Venezuela Friday during the team’s game against the Milwaukee Brewers, saying it is “failing to work.” “Socialism failing to work — as it always does —
At least 400 were arrested on Tuesday in eastern Sucre state, Venezuela, with police arguing that the starved people, many chanting “we want food,” were attempting to loot trucks carrying food meant to be distributed later through the socialist government’s ration system.
Supporters of socialist president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, beat opposition legislator Julio Borges with metal sticks in broad daylight Thursday, causing multiple nose fractures. They also injured several others before the nation’s National Electoral Council, where opposition leaders had convened urging the council to speed up the verification process for a recall on their president.
A marketing video for Estudiantes De Caracas – a professional soccer team – sought to drum up business for its soccer academy by showing expectant parents how the game is played even among their unborn babies.
Venezuela is imposing a new government food redistribution system in its capital, Caracas, that requires locals to acquire food from Socialist Party members, a move triggering national outrage as anti-socialist activists say the Party will use food to coerce citizens into supporting it.
The U.S. Department of State (DOS) has determined that Venezuela, which has refused to cooperate with the United States’ antiterrorism efforts in the region for nearly a decade, remains a “permissive environment” that promotes ideological and financial support for terrorist organizations, namely Iran’s Lebanese proxy Hezbollah.
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Poor Venezuelans in the center of the nation’s capital, Caracas, attempted to storm the nation’s presidential palace Thursday, chanting, “We want food” after Bolivarian National Guard soldiers appeared to steal the contents of a shipment of rice and sugar to a market where civilians had been waiting in line for hours.
Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro formally endorsed “revolutionary friend” Bernie Sanders for president during a broadcast Tuesday night, suggesting that Sanders would win in a landslide “if the election were free.”
An armed gang stormed the homes of eleven men and boys in northwest Venezuela on Saturday, shooting them dead in their yards. The massacre, involving three minors and a Colombian national, has brought to light once again the Venezuelan government’s seeming inability to deter the violent crime that has made it the world’s most violent country not currently at war.
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A mob of starved Venezuelan residents in central Carabobo state stopped a truck full of powdered milk Monday night, looting its contents and setting parts of the truck on fire. Incidents like this, many caught on video, are occurring on a daily basis in the socialist nation as the government struggles to subdue protesters.
Venezuelans seeking a visa for leave to the United States for the first time will no longer be able to apply for one, the U.S. embassy in Caracas announced, due to the socialist government’s forced reduction of the number of American staff working there.
A spokesperson for Coca-Cola confirmed Monday that the corporate giant would stop making its signature beverage in Venezuela, as the nation’s sugar shortage makes it impossible to continue production.
Breitbart News National Security Editor Dr. Sebastian Gorka, author of Defeating Jihad: The Winnable War, appeared on Fox & Friends Sunday to talk about the chaos in Venezuela, which is disintegrating into economic madness, lawless chaos, and possible civil war.
Remember the time I debated the Labour Party leader on Venezuela, Hugo Chavez’s legacy, and he refused to take heed of anything I was saying? Alright, he wasn’t the Labour leader back then. And you probably don’t remember, either. But
A mob in Venezuela beat a man senseless, doused him in gasoline, and set him ablaze for allegedly stealing the equivalent of five dollars.
Venezuela’s opposition-controlled parliament has rejected a state of emergency that President Nicolas Maduro decreed over a nation suffering from food shortages and a crumbling economy.
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The situation in Venezuela has been steadily declining in the past couple of years, but in the past few weeks, it has become so dire and disturbing that scenes coming out of the socialist country are said to mirror the apocalypse.
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