Hannah Dreier

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Venezuela jubilant over UN Security Council win

Hannah Dreier · October 16, 2014 11:25 pm

Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro addresses the 69th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2014, at U.N. headquarters. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Venezuela’s Maduro calls for shakeup at UN

Hannah Dreier · September 25, 2014 4:50 am

In this Sept, 4, 2014 photo, a patient is prepped for her breast augmentation at the metropolitan outpatient surgery center in Caracas, Venezuela. Doctors say restrictive currency controls that deprive local businesses of the cash to import foreign goods have caused breast implants approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to disappear. It may not be the gravest shortfall facing the socialist South American country, but surgeons say the issue cuts to the psyche of the image-conscious Venezuelan woman. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

Venezuela’s newest shortage: breast implants

Hannah Dreier · September 15, 2014 4:09 am

FILE- In this May 15, 2013 file photo, a woman who just bought toilet paper at a grocery store reads her receipt as she leaves the private store in Caracas, Venezuela. On Wednesday Sept. 10, 2014, Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro reassured foreign creditors that his government will make good on a $4.5 billion foreign debt payment due next month. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano, File)

As Venezuela economy worsens, fears of default

Hannah Dreier · September 11, 2014 10:18 pm

Long-delayed data show Venezuela inflation rising

Hannah Dreier · September 10, 2014 3:47 am

FILE - In this March 11, 2014 file photo, Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro speaks on his radio and television program called "In contact with Maduro" at Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas, Venezuela. Critics have mostly ignored the new TNT spy drama "Legends," but it's creating a furor in Venezuela. The telecommunications commission opened an investigation on Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2014 into the series over an episode in which a character fingers Maduro and his socialist party as the buyer of chemical weapons. (AP Photo/Alejandro Cegarra, File)

Venezuela rails against portrayal in US spy drama

Hannah Dreier · September 2, 2014 9:55 pm

FILE - In this Feb. 20, 2014 file photo, a woman walks downtown after buying bread in Caracas, Venezuela. Venezuelans may soon have to scan their fingers to buy bread at the supermarket. President Nicolas Maduro announced late Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2014 a new, mandatory grocery fingerprinting system to combat food shortages. In the spring, Venezuela tried a similar system in government-run supermarkets on a voluntary basis. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd, File)

Venezuela proposes fingerprinting grocery shoppers

Hannah Dreier · August 21, 2014 9:09 pm

Gunmen wreak havoc in Caracas emergency rooms

Hannah Dreier · August 14, 2014 4:06 am

CORRECTS DATE TO 2014 Former Venezuelan general Hugo Carvajal arrives at the Queen Beatrix International Airport in Oranjestad, Aruba, Sunday July 27, 2014 after being released by authorities. Carvajal was detained in Aruba on U.S. drug charges, released by the Dutch Caribbean island Sunday and sent home, authorities said Sunday.(AP Photo/Pedro Famous Diaz)

US: ‘Threats’ behind release of Venezuela general

Hannah Dreier · July 28, 2014 10:07 pm

Venezuela ruling party faces dissent at convention

Hannah Dreier · July 26, 2014 9:50 pm

In this July 15, 2014, photo, a defaced billboard promoting Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro with a message that reads in Spanish; "Following in Chavez's footsteps," towers over a main highway in Caracas, Venezuela. Announcements of foiled coups have long been a part of the Chavista discourse, but lately they have become more frequent and elaborate. Opponents say the drumbeat of alleged conspiracies helps the administration shift attention away from domestic problems such as soaring prices and rising crime. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

Venezuelan conspiracy theories a threat to critics

Hannah Dreier · July 23, 2014 2:29 pm

End comes for notorious Venezuelan vertical slum

Hannah Dreier · July 22, 2014 10:10 pm