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Dec 26 2021
News
Migration to U.S. empties Venezuela's once-booming oil capital
It took accountant Anibal Pirela six days of travel and $7,000 to reach Austin, Texas from Maracaibo, the capital of Venezuela's once-flourishing western oil state of Zulia.
Pirela traveled with his four-year-old son Daniel, joining a flood of emigrants emptying neighborhoods in Zulia, the top departure point for Venezuelans leaving their crisis-striken homeland.
"The people I
ReutersJul 06 2013
News
Venezuela, Nicaragua offer Edward Snowden asylum
Bolivia on Saturday joined Nicaragua and Venezuela in offering National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden asylum.
PoliticoMar 06 2013
News
Venezuela's Chavez: An Outsized Personality, A Domineering Figure
A fiery leftist, Hugo Chavez was a steadfast ally of dictators like Cuba's Fidel Castro while loudly opposing the United States. He claimed capitalism was destroying the world and tried to transform Venezuela into a socialist state. Millions of Venezuelans loved him because he showered the poor with social programs.
Yet Chavez, who ruled Venezuela from 1999 until his death Tuesday, was
NPR (Online News)Mar 06 2013
Opinion
Viewpoint: New Era for US-Venezuela Relations?
The death of Hugo Chávez leaves much uncertainty in Venezuela. But Shannon O'Neil says stronger ties with the United States may be on the horizon.
Council on Foreign RelationsMar 06 2013
News
Chavez Dies, Leaving Sharp Divisions in Venezuela
President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela died Tuesday afternoon after a struggle with cancer, the government announced, leaving behind a bitterly divided nation in the grip of a political crisis that grew more acute as he languished for weeks, silent and out of sight, in hospitals in Havana and Caracas.
New York Times (News)Mar 18 2023
News
Trea Turner’s grand slam leads US to comeback win over Venezuela in WBC
MIAMI — Trea Turner hit a go-ahead grand slam in the eighth inning that lifted the United States over Venezuela 9-7 Saturday night and into the World Baseball Classic semifinals. The defending champion Team USA will face Cuba on Sunday night for a spot in the WBC championship. Venezuela second baseman and Houston Astros star Jose Altuve left the game in the fifth with a right hand injury after
New York Post (News)Apr 12 2024
Opinion
The future belongs to Right-wing progressives
Reactionary as I am, it gives me no pleasure to report that conservatism is finished. As Britain struggles with the exhausted death-spasms of liberal Toryism, the only subset of Right-wing thought in the West today that doesn’t feel moribund is actively anti-conservative. The liveliest corner of the Anglophone Right is scornful of cultural conservatism and nostalgia, instead combining an
UnHerdMay 06 2019
News
Pompeo: Maduro Knows His Time is Limited in Venezuela
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will meet with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov Monday afternoon as tensions over Russia’s role in propping up Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro continue.
During a gaggle with reporters onboard his plane ahead of the meeting, which will take place in Finland, Pompeo explained Maduro’s current situation and said it’s just a matter of time until he’s
TownhallApr 06 2024
News
GOP State Attorneys Target Biden Parole Program Flying in 30,000 Immigrants Monthly
Lawsuit aims to stop scheme that flies immigrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela into the U.S. and allows them to remain indefinitely. A coalition of 21 Republican attorneys general filed a motion in federal court aiming to halt a Biden administration policy that allows 30,000 immigrants from four countries to fly into the United States each month. The motion to reconsider is led
The Epoch TimesApr 07 2024
News
Bronx judge who let migrant squatters go free with no bail released suspects who beat up cop
The Bronx judge who set loose six suspected migrant squatters arrested on drugs and weapons charges last week previously released two men who beat up a police officer. Bronx Criminal Court Judge Eugene Bowen, a Democrat elected in 2023, released the six men against the wishes of prosecutors. One of the migrants, Hector Desousa-Villalta, 24, of Venezuela, had been arrested in August on
Fox News (Online News)