Tag: Nicolas Maduro

In this Monday, March 14, 2016 file photo, Republican presidential candidate, Donald Trump holds a plane-side rally in a hanger at Youngstown-Warren Regional Airport in Vienna, Ohio.

Trump targets Venezuela’s cryptocurrency with new sanctions

Gabby Morrongiello · March 19, 2018 6:08 pm

Dictators Quick to Congratulate Vladimir Putin on His Re-Election

Jenna Lifhits · March 19, 2018 3:47 pm

Stein’s Law Is Under Severe Strain

Ethan Epstein · February 27, 2018 4:45 pm

In this photo from Jan. 20, an opposition member waves a Venezuelan flag during a protest outside of the city's morgue in Caracas, Venezuela. In Venezuela, President Nicolas Maduro and his Marxist supporters have previously clung to power by refusing to schedule regional elections and by jailing and banning its political opponents. Now, the government has announced hastily-scheduled presidential elections, but the most popular opposition candidate, Henrique Capriles Radonski, has been banned from running. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

Trump should do more to denounce Latin American socialism

David Unsworth · February 11, 2018 5:01 am

Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., likened a potential partnership with Russia to cooperating with Syrian President Bashar Assad to reduce chemical weapons. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Marco Rubio encourages military coup in Venezuela

Pete Kasperowicz · February 9, 2018 2:35 pm

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is working to put additional pressure on the regime by convincing neighboring countries to rely on the United States rather than Venezuela for oil and other energy resources. (Erhan Elaldi/Pool Photo via AP)

National Security

Nikki Haley: Maduro’s snap election will ‘destroy Venezuela’s democracy’

Joel Gehrke · February 8, 2018 9:08 pm

The Venezuela Airlift?

Barton Swaim · January 30, 2018 4:45 pm

"It is clear that the United States can — and should — do more to increase international pressure against Maduro and his cronies," Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., and Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., wrote in a letter to President Trump. (AP)

National Security

Marco Rubio, Bob Menendez push Trump for tougher Venezuela sanctions

Joel Gehrke · January 25, 2018 10:45 pm

"Maduro's reign of violence, repression, corruption, and bankruptcy continues to punish the Venezuelan people," Nikki Haley said Friday. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

National Security

Nikki Haley blasts Venezuela for targeting Catholic bishops

Joel Gehrke · January 19, 2018 9:31 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.

Beltway Confidential

Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro has completely lost his mind

Tom Rogan · January 2, 2018 5:07 pm

Maduro's latest sham election requires a U.S. response. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

Beltway Confidential

Time to sanction Venezuelan oil exports

Tom Rogan · October 16, 2017 6:37 pm

One ideology is better than the other. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

Beltway Confidential

A tale of two nations: capitalist Colombia and socialist Venezuela

Tom Rogan · September 28, 2017 3:46 pm