After a potato shortage forced McDonald’s to remove them from menus, Venezuelans will now once again be able to purchase French fries at local franchises — made using only local ingredients, and costing about $133 for a large serving.
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro announced last week he intends to sue the United States government in an American court over sanctions placed on his regime due to human rights violations in March.
Franklin Nieves, the prosecutor responsible for securing a conviction and 13-year prison sentence for Venezuelan opposition leader Leopoldo López, has defected to the United States and confessed that the evidence he brought to the trial was “100% false.”
Last Sunday, Manuel Gonzales, a 24-year-old social communicator competing under the nom-de-guerre of Argenis Gonzalez, was crowned Miss Gay Venezuela.
It’s an understatement to describe the relationship between the US and Venezuela as strained. The two countries have a history of expelling each other’s diplomats after spats over petroleum, democracy, and human rights. However, that tension was taken to a new level recently when US judges quietly unsealed indictments charging two former top Venezuelan police officials with drug trafficking.
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro warned viewers on Sunday that he expects December’s legislative elections to be the “most difficult yet” for the socialist Chavistas. Maduro, who barely scraped a victory against opposition leader Henrique Capriles Radonski in 2013, also accused the United States of “conspiracy” against him.
The Venezuelan government has agreed to allow the nearly 2,000 Colombians violently expelled from the Venezuelan border to return to the country. It is not yet certain whether their property will be returned to them or if any of the victims of this mass deportation will want to return.
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In his address to the United Nations General Assembly, Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro praised President Barack Obama’s “courage” in working with Cuba, while condemning “neoliberalism” and calling for a “new geopolitical system.”
Brazilian magazine Veja is confirming and adding to a story that surfaced last week implicating Bolivia’s President Evo Morales, Vice President Álvaro García Linera, and a number of close confidantes in the running of an elaborate cocaine trafficking operation from the highest levels of government.
A much-publicized summit between Venezuelan head of state Nicolás Maduro and his Colombian counterpart Juan Manuel Santos to reestablish diplomatic relations following the mass deportations of Colombians without due process in socialist Venezuela has not resulted in a concrete solution regarding the fate of the forcibly displaced.
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has shut down the border between his nation and Colombia in Apure state, the third state affected by a deportation spree that has sent 20,000 Colombians fleeing home, fearing for their lives and property.
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos visited the border town of Paraguachón on Monday, where thousands of Colombians formerly living in Venezuela have been deported. During the visit, Santos confronted Venezuela’s Bolivarian National Guard, accused of multiple human rights violations against Colombians.
The government of Colombia is lodging a formal complaint against Venezuela for allegedly violating its airspace with two military aircraft over the weekend, the latest provocation in a series that includes the mass deportation of hundreds of Colombian nationals.
The leader of Venezuela’s largest opposition party, Popular Will, has been found guilty of organizing protests against the socialist government. Leopoldo López has been condemned to serve 13 years and 9 months in prison.
The Venezuelan government has published a full-page ad in the New York Times this week arguing that the mass, arbitrary deportation of Colombians from its border territories was necessary for national security interests.
A deportation spree triggered by alleged “paramilitary” vandals has forced 20,000 Colombians to leave their homes in Venezuela or be forcefully deported.
Following multiple reports of Venezuelan soldiers allegedly sexually abusing underaged Colombian girls while deporting them from the country, a young man who was forced to leave his home on the border of both countries claims a group of soldiers molested him after forcefully tearing him away from his family.
In a primetime speech Tuesday, Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos condemned the arbitrary deportation of over 1,000 Colombians from Venezuela as a human rights violation, asserting that his government is “seriously considering” taking Venezuela to the International Criminal Court and denouncing it before the UN.
An NGO operating in Venezuela has published videos of starved prisoners in the socialist nation killing, skinning, and cooking cats on aluminum pans in order to survive, as wardens have forbidden families from bringing food and serve only a small cup of rice and water per day.
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Colombia’s Attorney General Office is accusing the Venezuelan government of allowing its soldiers to sexually abuse underaged Colombian girls as Venezuela executes a mass deportation of Colombian citizens triggered by an attack on Venezuelan soldiers. President Nicolás Maduro insists Colombia is responsible.
A man accused of murdering and dismembering a woman in Caracas has become the poster boy for the latest Venezuelan government conspiracy theory: that Sen. Marco Rubio and Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen are personally paying opposition members to destabilize the socialist regime.
Newly-minted parents at Venezuela’s Dr. Luis Razetti Hospital in Anzoátegui are denouncing its maternity ward for killing 17 babies in a week, the victims of sanitation so poor the ward is overtly inhabited by a swarm of possums.
The U.S Coast Guard announced this week that they have seized more cocaine on the Pacific high seas in the past ten months than in the past three years combined, a total of 32 metric tons of cocaine.
Maria Gabriela Chávez, the most prominent of late Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chávez’s four children, is believed to be the wealthiest person in Venezuela, with a reported net worth nearing $4.2 billion.
The unpopular socialist government of Venezuela has been using an army of thousands of Twitter “bots” to inflate its support network on the social media outlet, the Associated Press reports in an extensive exposé.
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Socialist Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro is blaming a United States conspiracy for a supermarket riot over the weekend that left one 21-year-old man dead–a man witnesses say was shot to death by Venezuela’s Bolivarian National Guard.
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The Venezuelan military has invaded and seized a food distribution center in Caracas used by national food and beer corporation Polar, as well as American companies Nestle and Pepsi. 12,000 tons of food, six million liters of soft drinks, and 2,000 jobs are now at risk in a nation suffering major food shortages and a collapsed economy.
Venezuela’s socialist government has run the OPEC nation’s economy to the group, prompting shortages of goods as varied as toilet paper, coffin materials, beer, and water. The shortage has now hit pharmacies, with most pharmacies having completely run out of most forms of contraceptives, particularly birth control pills.
Two members of Venezuela’s Bolivarian National Guard–the state police–have been arrested after being accused of aiding drug trafficking by the Mexican Sinaloa Cartel, run by the now-fugitive Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán.
The government of Venezuela, intent on finding a solution to its economic woes that do not involve changing its socialist economic system, has taken up a campaign to annex two-thirds of neighboring Guyana, a jungle territory known as the Essequibo. Guyana is soundly rejecting that Venezuela has any claims to its territory.
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Venezuela has stopped publishing official data on its rate of inflation, but one expert on monetary policy says the current rate is 615 percent.
A Chavista union demanding higher wages, combined with difficulties in importing necessary ingredients, are threatening to leave Venezuela without beer. The potential scarcity of the extremely popular beverage is just the latest in a string of increasingly difficult to find common goods in the socialist nation.
Venezuelan socialist head of state Nicolás Maduro has recalled his nation’s ambassador to neighboring Guyana after statements by the latter government that Venezuela was excessively intruding into Guyanese maritime territory.
Socialism is having its moment here in America, even as socialism abroad is collapsing in disarray.
Following news of reconciliation with the Cuban communist regime, Reuters is reporting that the Obama administration has been engaging in secret diplomacy with the dictatorship currently governing Venezuela, hoping to reestablish ties with socialist President Nicolás Maduro and negotiate the freedom of political prisoner Leopoldo López.
