A court in Venezuela has upheld long prison sentences for six American oil executives detained in the South American country on corruption charges for more than four years. Venezuela’s supreme court announced the ruling late Friday, disappointing family members who had hoped the surprise decision last fall to hear the appeal, and by a top…
EXCLUSIVE: Trump Says America Becoming Like a Communist State
Former President Donald Trump on Jan. 31 lamented that the United States resembles a communist nation under his successor, pointing to rampant inflation, diminishing freedoms, and the porous U.S.–Mexico border. “They’re destroying our country. They’re making us a different country. We’re becoming like a socialist or a communist state,” Trump told former top White House…
Refugees Risk Perilous Path to Escape Socialist Venezuela Into Neighboring Guyana
Tens of Thousands of Venezuelan immigrants are flooding into neighboring South American country Guyana in a bid to escape destitution and instability of socialism. Escape routes away from coast guards and Venezuela’s armed gangs, also known as syndicates, take the refugees along perilous routes, risking starvation and sickness in search of a new and unprepared-for…
Socialist Venezuela Caused 50,000 Oil Spills From 2010 to 2016
October 26, 2021
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On Oct. 25, a Center for Strategic and International Studies panel discussed some of the environmental damage taking place in Venezuela, which has been led since 1999 by socialist Hugo Chavez and, after Chavez’s death in 2013, socialist Nicolás Maduro. Sponsored by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), much of the event focused…
US Justice Department Charges Five Individuals For Alleged Venezuela Bribery Scheme
The U.S. Justice Department announced on Thursday that it was charging three Colombians and two Venezuelans for money laundering in connection with a Venezuela bribery scheme. The individuals allegedly laundered the proceeds of inflated contracts through a Venezuelan state-owned food and medicine distribution program called CLAP. In order to operate through CLAP, DOJ said the individuals bribed…
Maduro Regime Suspends Negotiations With Opposition as Venezuelans Continue to Suffer 76 Percent Poverty
CARACAS/PRAIA—Venezuela on Saturday said it would suspend negotiations with the opposition that were set to resume this weekend. The announcement was made by Socialist party legislator Jorge Rodriguez, who heads the Maduro regime’s negotiating team. Rodriguez said the Venezuelan government would not attend the talks set to begin on Sunday after Cape Verde extradited Colombian…
UN Says Venezuelan Courts Are Involved in Human Rights Violations
By Antonio Maria Delgado From Miami Herald Venezuela’s justice system is exceedingly unjust, with its courts being used as a tool of repression used to arbitrarily jail activists and political opponents to the Nicolás Maduro regime while turning a blind eye to a growing number of human rights violations, a United Nations report said Thursday….
Death Toll Rises to at Least 20 in Western Venezuela Floods
SAN CRISTOBAL, Venezuela—At least 20 people have died in the western Venezuelan state of Merida following intense rains that caused mudslides and rivers to overflow. On state TV on Wednesday a ruling Socialist Party official in Merida announced the death toll had risen and said authorities were working to restore telephone service in some areas….
Antonella Marty: How Socialist, Communist Ideology Took Over Cuba, Latin America
August 12, 2021
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“Communism destroys the incentives. It destroys the most important essence of the human being … liberty,” says Antonella Marty, director of the Atlas Network’s Center for Latin America. At FreedomFest in South Dakota, we sat down with Marty to discuss the spread of communist and socialist ideology in Latin America—from Cuba to Venezuela to her…
UK Reaffirms Backing for Guaido as Venezuela President Ahead of $1 Billion Gold Case
LONDON—The British government reiterated on Monday that it recognises opposition figure Juan Guaido as Venezuela’s president, a move aimed at quashing a bid by the Nicolas Maduro-backed Venezuelan central bank to repatriate nearly $1 billion of its gold stored in London. Legal teams representing Maduro and Guaido will be at the UK Supreme Court on…
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