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World / Politics Apr 18, 2019
U.S. national security adviser John Bolton announced a series of new sanctions against Cuba and Venezuela on Wednesday as the Trump administration sought to boost pressure on Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro and the countries that support him. Bolton, in a speech to an association of ...
World / Social Issues Apr 17, 2019
The first shipment of humanitarian aid from the Red Cross arrived in Venezuela on Tuesday, delivering medicine and supplies for needy patients in a country whose president has long denied the existence of a humanitarian crisis. Workers in blue vests helped load boxes with the ...
World / Politics Apr 16, 2019
Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido has met obstacles at nearly every turn since he declared presidential powers in a bid to end socialist President Nicolas Maduro's rule, and his visit to this once-thriving oil center was no different. He was forced to take a boat ...
World / Social Issues Apr 16, 2019
Destitute Venezuelan migrants who fled to Brazil border live in abandoned bus going nowhere
Ten destitute Venezuelan migrants who fled their country's crisis did not get far when they crossed into Brazil: they have been living for three months on an abandoned bus just across the border. They sleep on cardboard, except for the lucky one who gets the ...
World / Politics Apr 15, 2019
Mike Pompeo visits Colombia-Venezuela border and hears critic after praising Peru refugee policy
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo ended a visit to Peru on Sunday and traveled to the Colombian border city of Cucuta, crossed through by thousands of Venezuelans fleeing crisis under President Nicolas Maduro. After attending a Sunday service in the Peruvian capital Lima, the ...
World / Politics Apr 13, 2019
China's financing of Nicolas Maduro prolonging Venezuela crisis, top U.S. diplomat says
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Friday that China's financing of President Nicolas Maduro's government is prolonging the crisis in Venezuela. Pompeo kicked off a four-country tour of Latin America in Chile, where he met with President Sebastian Pinera to discuss the U.S.-China trade ...
World / Social Issues Apr 11, 2019
Raul Castro warns Cubans to brace for worsening shortages due to Trump policies
Communist Party leader Raul Castro warned Cubans on Wednesday that they should brace for worsening shortages due to Trump administration policies, but said the island won't return to the extreme deprivation of the post-Soviet period. In his first speech to the nation in more than ...
World / Politics Apr 11, 2019
Pence to UNSC: U.S. wants Maduro out and 'all options' are on the table
U.S. Vice President Mike Pence told the Security Council Wednesday that the Trump administration is determined to restore democracy to Venezuela, preferably through diplomatic and economic pressure, but "all options are on the table" — and Russia and others need to step aside. Venezuelan U.N. ...
World / Politics Apr 10, 2019
Guaido says he's maintaining 'very discreet' contacts with Venezuelan military
Venezuela's opposition leader Juan Guaido said Tuesday he has been keeping up "very discreet" contacts with Caracas' military, insisting that the armed forces were part of the overwhelming majority of people who wanted a change of government. Guaido is recognized as interim president of the ...
Asia Pacific | ANALYSIS Apr 5, 2019
Washington alarmed as China's 'Belt and Road' construction binge spreads to Americas
by Juan Zamorano, Kathia Martinez and Joe Mcdonald
China's expansion in Latin America of its "Belt and Road" initiative to build ports and other trade-related facilities is stirring alarm in Washington over Beijing's ambitions in a region that American leaders since the 19th century have seen as off-limits to other powers. China is ...
World / Politics Apr 5, 2019
Guaido says imprisoning him could be Maduro's final move, and he has contingency plan
Juan Guaido, newly vulnerable to arrest, says he is prepared to be imprisoned by the autocratic regime of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and has a contingency plan for allies to continue the protest movement he leads. "In the event that they want to, or try ...