Tag: Hugo Chavez

President Trump talks to Nikki Haley, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, at the United Nations General Assembly, Monday, Sept. 24, 2018, at U.N. Headquarters.

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Trump at the UN is ratings gold

Daniel DePetris · September 24, 2018 1:48 pm

In this Feb. 19, 2015 file photo, the sun sets behind an oil well in a field near El Tigre, Venezuela.

Venezuela is drowning, yet Maduro keeps subsidizing Havana

Jorge C. Carrasco · September 18, 2018 12:00 am

The Turkish leader is behaving very strange. (Murat Cetinmuhurdar/Pool Photo via AP)

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The madness of Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Tom Rogan · February 26, 2018 7:24 pm

The Venezuela Airlift?

Barton Swaim · January 30, 2018 4:45 pm

Nicolas Maduro announced that he is increasing Venezuela's minimum wage by 40%. But seeing as Venezuela's inflation rate already increased by at least 1,000% last year, Maduro's gambit is only likely to increase the already-catastrophic suffering of his people.

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Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro has completely lost his mind

Tom Rogan · January 2, 2018 5:07 pm

Rather than reform the economy to boost private production and attract foreign investment, that which would reduce starvation rates, Maduro resorts to this rabbit gimmick. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)

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Venezuela: Once an energy paradise, now a rabbit republic

Tom Rogan · September 14, 2017 6:25 pm

Cabrera didn't back down even though they are potentially risky remarks, given that his family still lives in Venezuela. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

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MLB star Miguel Cabrera asks Venezuelan ‘dictators’ not to harm family

Joel Gehrke · July 11, 2017 8:42 pm

Anti-government demonstrators sit under a bridge that has graffiti written in Spanish that reads "Hunger," during a protest in Caracas, Venezuela, on July 1. Demonstrators are taking to the streets after three months of continued protests that has left dozens dead and seen the country's chief prosecutor Luisa Ortega barred from leaving the country and her bank accounts frozen, by the Supreme Court following her mounting criticisms of President Nicolas Maduro. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

In Venezuela, the destructive force of socialism is at work

Dan Hannan · July 10, 2017 4:00 am

Today, in the nation with the world's largest oil reserves, millions of children are starving. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

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Bernie Sanders, Jeremy Corbyn, and the starving children of Venezuela

Tom Rogan · June 15, 2017 3:54 pm

Hugo Chavez's legacy is a Venezuela in ruin. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd, File)

The deafening silence of Hollywood’s Chavistas

Cory Franklin · May 1, 2017 4:03 am

Tintori says officials told her she was being kicked out on the orders of Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

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A crumbling Chavist bloc still flexing what muscles it has

David Freddoso · March 16, 2017 11:00 am

Venezuela was once a relatively wealthy nation. Then Chavez nationalized its farms and "domestic production dried up." (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

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Venezuela, where ‘food is a better business than drugs’

David Freddoso · December 29, 2016 9:15 pm