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The heavy sanctions the United States has imposed on Venezuela have had little success at turning the government of President Nicolás Maduro back from its increasingly authoritarian ways. But where the sanctions have had an impact is in deepening the country’s public health crisis, particularly the coronavirus pandemic. Or so…

The heavy sanctions the United States has imposed on Venezuela have had little success at turning the government of President Nicolás Maduro back from its increasingly authoritarian ways. But where the sanctions have had an impact is in deepening the country’s public health crisis, particularly the coronavirus pandemic. Or so…

Cars parked in line to refill gasoline in San Antonio, near Caracas, Venezuela, September 9, 2020. (Manaure Quintero/Reuters) How Maduro’s regime is hanging on, two years after an uprising against it — and what Biden should do about it. Two years ago, on April 30, 2019, the Venezuelan people took…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken vowed on Tuesday that Washington would work with partners in the region to maintain pressure on the government of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro for a peaceful return to democracy. In pre-recorded remarks to a conference on Latin America, Blinken also said…

Before dawn on April 30, 2019, Juan Guaidó and Leopoldo López — Venezuela’s U.S.-backed interim president and, until that morning, the country's most prominent political prisoner — stood together and declared the end of Nicolás Maduro’s regime. The walls were closing in. A plane, U.S. officials would claim, was waiting…

MIAMI (AP) — A former Venezuelan attorney general who defied President Nicolas Maduro by siding with his opponents has been implicated in a major corruption case involving a Venezuelan businessman who this week pleaded guilty to paying $1 million in bribes, two people familiar with the case said Thursday. The…

Venezuela will ask the United Nations to help remove landmines in its territory that it says have been deployed by "irregular" armed groups near the Colombian border, President Nicolas Maduro said on Sunday.Reuters Last Updated:April 05, 2021, 05:15 ISTFOLLOW US ON:CARACAS: Venezuela will ask the United Nations to help remove…

Dear Normal, Everyone wants you back. It seems every day of this late-stage pandemic era is marked with someone wistfully talking about Normal: going back to you, starting new with you. It’s all about norms and normalcy. All about you. As for me, I’m not so interested in Normal. I…

Nicolas Maduro said Venezuela was working to pay for vaccines from the WHO’s Covax mechanism through oil shipments The country’s crude exports have plummeted to their lowest levels in decades since the US sanctioned a state oil company in 2019 Topic |   Venezuela E3B1C256-BFCB-4CEF-88A6-1DCCD7666635 Published: 4:07pm, 29 Mar, 2021 Updated: 4:07pm,…

Venezuela has received vaccine doses from allies Russia and China. By REUTERS   MARCH 29, 2021 03:06 A scientist conducts research on a vaccine for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) at the laboratories of RNA medicines company Arcturus Therapeutics in San Diego, California, U.S., March 17, 2020. (photo credit: BING GUAN/REUTERS)…