Venezuela’s exiled opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez is speaking out for U.S. help, in an effort to fight the Nicolas Maduro regime. At the same time, the Venezuelan regime plans to include a jailed envoy in ongoing talks with the opposition, a move that threatens to stir tensions.
Delegations from Venezuela’s regime and opposition groups will begin negotiations in Mexico City Friday. The regime wants to work on getting the United States and Europe to lift sanctions they put in place after declaring the country’s 2018 elections illegitimate. Meanwhile, the opposition wants the regime to release political prisoners, and guarantee free and fair […]
CARACAS—Venezuelan prosecutors on Monday said they had charged opposition politician Freddy Guevara with terrorism and treason, among other allegations, after the country’s intelligence service arrested him from his car on a Caracas highway. Guevara is a close ally of opposition leader Juan Guaido, who is recognized as the South American country’s legitimate president by the […]
Leaders of the largest socialist political organization in the United States, the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), which has endorsed prominent U.S. House members, met with Venezuelan Dictator Nicolás Maduro on July 2. According to Telesur, the chairperson of the National Political Committee of the DSA, members of the International Committee, and the organization’s Political Formation, […]
WASHINGTON—U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken vowed on Tuesday that Washington would work with partners in the region to maintain pressure on Venezuelan regime leader Nicolas Maduro for a peaceful return to democracy. In pre-recorded remarks to a conference on Latin America, Blinken also said the Biden administration would continue criticism of the “repression of […]
CARACAS—Facebook has frozen Venezuelan regime leader Nicolas Maduro’s page for violating policies against spreading misinformation about COVID-19 by promoting a remedy he claims, without evidence, can cure the disease, a company spokesman said on Saturday. Maduro in January described Carvativir, an oral solution derived from thyme, as a “miracle” medication that neutralizes the coronavirus with […]
A former Venezuelan prison inmate details his experience while detained. Democratic governments and human rights organizations have long criticized Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro and his socialist dictatorship for extensive abuses. Andrew Thomas, NTD News.
The United States is sanctioning a Venezuelan tech company for its involvement in the Maduro regime’s allegedly fraudulent elections earlier this month. The Treasury Department is also targeting two individuals for working on behalf of the company. A biometric technology company is said to have known about the regime’s efforts to rig the election and […]
CARACAS, Venezuela—A Venezuelan court has sentenced two former U.S. special forces soldiers to 20 years in prison for their part in a blunder-filled beach attack aimed at overthrowing President Nicolás Maduro. Lawyers for the former Green Berets, Luke Denman and Airan Berry, said they were barred from the secretive jailhouse proceedings Friday night in what […]
