Tag: Venezuela

Many members of the Human Rights Council are known for egregious violations of human rights of their citizens. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

Beltway Confidential

The UN is a hypocrite on human rights

Eugene Chudnovsky · December 29, 2016 12:01 am

Maybe you laugh at Bitcoin, but they don’t in Latin America

Beltway Confidential

Maybe you laugh at Bitcoin, but they don’t in Latin America

David Freddoso · November 30, 2016 4:15 pm

Maduro has wielded authority to defy the popular vote that gave the opposition a super-majority. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano, File)

National Security

Venezuelan dictatorship digs in and hunkers down

Roger F. Noriega · October 26, 2016 4:03 am

Obama's policy of benign neglect may be paying unexpected dividends by forcing Latin America to be more assertive. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa, File)

The only place where ‘leading from behind’ has worked

Alvaro Vargas Llosa · October 12, 2016 7:00 am

Venezuelan regime runs out of other people’s money

Venezuelan regime runs out of other people’s money

Washington Examiner · October 10, 2016 4:01 am

ICE agents, along with Caribbean Corridor Strike Force, seized more than $60 million worth of cocaine and marijuana in Puerto Rico during the period of one week, the federal agency announced late Wednesday. (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement)

ICE seizes $60 million of cocaine and pot in week-long Caribbean bust

Anna Giaritelli · September 1, 2016 2:04 am

Chavez and Maduro turned to price controls in an attempt to wrestle the economy into compliance. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

Price controls work no better in America than in Venezuela

Andrew Quinlan · August 29, 2016 4:03 am

Police in Venezuela destroyed nearly 2,000 shotguns and pistols Wednesday as part of a new national gun control campaign to take firearms off the streets. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green, File)

Venezuela police confiscate and destroy 2,000 guns

Anna Giaritelli · August 18, 2016 1:56 am

Long Lines and Empty Shelves

Long Lines and Empty Shelves

dario-paya · July 29, 2016 2:10 pm

"We will be a large-scale version of Venezuela and it won't be pretty," Donald Trump said. (AP Photo)

Trump: If Hillary wins, ‘we will be a large-scale version of Venezuela’

Anna Giaritelli · June 18, 2016 3:29 am

Nicolas Maduro said that the "archaic 200-year-old" U.S. electoral system is preventing Sanders from winning. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano, File)

Venezuelan president calls Sanders ‘our revolutionary friend’

Ariel Cohen · June 2, 2016 3:19 pm

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro placed Venezuela under a "State of Exception and Economic Emergency" due to "international and national threats against our fatherland." (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

Venezuela is ‘democratic socialism’ in action

Washington Examiner · May 18, 2016 4:15 am