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Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob MenendezRobert (Bob) MenendezSenate passes resolution supporting Ukraine amid invasion fears Senators urge Biden to 'impose significant costs' if Russia invades Ukraine Senators eye Plan B amid Russia sanctions stalemate MORE (D-N.J.) said Monday that talks between Biden administration officials and the government of Venezuelan President Nicolás…

BERLIN — German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Monday pushed back hard against calls from the U.S. and Ukraine for a ban on imports of Russian gas and oil as part of international sanctions on Moscow. One of the darkest ironies of Russian President Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine is that…

Multiple major corporate media outlets in America reported this weekend that President Joe Biden sent a delegation to Venezuela to meet socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro, reportedly to discuss buying Venezuelan oil. The price of crude oil has skyrocketed internationally in light of the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine. While…

CARACAS — Venezuela is one of three Latin American countries that has expressed support for Russia and its invasion of Ukraine — or more specifically, the socialist regime of Venezuela is the one that has expressed its support of Putin. The people of Venezuela have a completely different stance than…

Author of the article: CARACAS — Venezuela’s rate of consumer price inflation continued to fall in February to 2.9%, the lowest figure in eight years, the central bank said on Friday. The government of President Nicolas Maduro has been making cuts to spending in the bolivar currency since the second…

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday held a phone call to plan strategy with Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro, one of Putin’s few outspoken supporters during Russia’s attack on Ukraine. The Kremlin said Maduro expressed “strong support” for Russia’s war effort during the call. According to the Kremlin readout of the…

MIAMI — A Colombian businessman linked to Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro was secretly signed up by the Drug Enforcement Administration as a cooperating source in 2018 and gave agents information about bribes he paid to Venezuelan officials, according to new court records unsealed Wednesday in the closely watched corruption case.…

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Author of the article: CARACAS — Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro expects the South American country’s economy grew by more than 4% last year, following eight years of recession and rising prices, he said on Saturday. Venezuela’s central bank has not updated figures for the country’s gross domestic product since the…

In 2019, a coalition of Venezuelan political parties backed by the U.S. had grand ambitions to overthrow President Nicolás Maduro and cut off his financing by seizing some $20 billion in foreign assets from his regime and managing them on their own. Mr. Maduro’s grip on power has since tightened.…