Tag: Venezuela

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo attends a meeting.

US pushes Russia to keep Venezuela’s interim president safe from harm

Joel Gehrke · March 6, 2019 6:06 pm

Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro leaves at the end of the closing ceremony of the International Tourism Fair in Caracas, Venezuela, Monday, Nov. 26,2018. The United Nations has released $9.2 million for food, medicine and other help for struggling Venezuelans through an emergency relief fund, the first such assistance during the country's deepening a political and economic crisis.

US warns of sanctions on foreign banks that support Maduro

Emily Ward · March 6, 2019 5:32 pm

Looters wreck gaming machines at one of Havana's many plush casinos during rioting over the fall of the Batista regime, Jan. 1, 1959.

Trump administration allows first lawsuits against Cuba for US property seized during Castro’s revolution

Joel Gehrke · March 4, 2019 11:11 pm

Venezuelan Congress President Juan Guaido, an opposition leader who declared himself interim president, shows his passport to supporters as he leads a rally demanding the resignation of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.

Guaido returns to Venezuela, defying Maduro

Zach Halaschak · March 4, 2019 9:31 pm

Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro speaks to supporters during a pro-government rally in Caracas, Venezuela, Saturday, Feb. 23, 2019.

Beltway Confidential

Why I thought Nicolas Maduro would be gone by now

Tom Rogan · March 4, 2019 9:05 pm

House Oversight and Reform Committee member Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y.

Ocasio-Cortez refuses to denounce Maduro

Claude Thompson · March 4, 2019 8:18 pm

In this 1971 photo, President Salvador Allende waves to supporters in Chile.

US must re-learn Chicago economics from South America

Roger Ream · March 4, 2019 5:00 am

National Security

Fears for Juan Guaido as he returns to Venezuela

Daniel Jativa · March 3, 2019 8:11 pm

National Security Adviser John Bolton speaks to the Venezuelan American community prior to President Donald Trump's speech at Florida International University in Miami, Monday, Feb. 18, 2019.

John Bolton: ‘We’re not afraid to use the word Monroe Doctrine’

Daniel Jativa · March 3, 2019 2:55 pm

Venezuela's self-proclaimed interim president Juan Guaido talks to supporters in Argentina.

European Union to Nicolas Maduro: Let Juan Guaido go home

Joel Gehrke · March 2, 2019 10:22 pm

‘America first’ doesn’t mean ‘American alone,’ Joni Ernst says

Diana Stancy Correll, Daniel Jativa · March 1, 2019 10:19 pm

In this Aug. 20, 2018 photo, power lines stand alongside oil pumps on Maracaibo Lake, off Maracaibo, Venezuela.

Venezuela to move oil HQ to Moscow in attempt to circumvent sanctions

Daniel Jativa · March 1, 2019 8:03 pm