Venezuela
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World
Venezuelans Are Suffering, but More Sanctions Won’t Help
President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela isn’t even pretending to play fair anymore. In October, he promised to take steps toward holding free elections, including allowing the opposition to pick a candidate in a primary process of its own choosing ...
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Venezuelan Opposition Names New Candidate in Show of Unity
The announcement that Corina Yoris would run came as a surprise to many who had feared that a fractured opposition would benefit President Nicolás Maduro.
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World
Deportation Flights from the U.S. to Venezuela in Limbo in Blow to Biden
Flights sending Venezuelans back to their homeland have not taken off for two weeks. The move is a setback to President Biden’s effort to tackle a migration surge.
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World
Stakes Change, but an Old Fight Over a Chunk of South America Flares Again
It was the depths of the Cold War in the 1960s, and Caracas was on edge. Marxist guerrillas in Venezuela were getting weapons and training from Cuba’s Fidel Castro. Along Venezuela’s eastern border, anticolonial leaders in what was then British ...
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World
Alex Saab queda libre a cambio de la liberación de 10 estadounidenses en Venezuela
Saab, aliado cercano de Nicolás Maduro, fue puesto en libertad cuando EE. UU. intenta presionar al gobierno autoritario de Venezuela a realizar elecciones justas.
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World
U.S. to Release Ally of Venezuelan President in Exchange for 10 Americans
The release of Alex Saab, a top ally of Venezuela’s president, comes as the United States is trying to push the authoritarian government to hold fair elections.
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Sports
Baseball Flourishes in Colombia’s Capital. But Not Because of Colombians.
In a Bogotá league, Venezuelans who fled their homeland have carried on their culture in a country surrounded by soccer — and have built a support system. “It’s like having a piece of Venezuela here.”
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World
I’ve Seen It: Maduro Could Lose Venezuela’s Presidential Election
Nicolás Maduro has been in power for 10 years in Venezuela. In that decade, he has overseen a period of economic collapse, corruption, a sharp increase in poverty, environmental devastation and state repression of dissidents and the press. This has ...
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World
Venezuela Holds a Key Vote. Here’s What You Need to Know.
Ten opposition candidates are running to face off against President Nicolás Maduro next year. A center-right former legislator, María Corina Machado, is widely expected to win.
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World
A Thaw Between U.S. and Venezuela Ahead of a Key Vote
When the Venezuelan government released five political prisoners late Wednesday to cheers from the country’s opposition, it was the most emotional in a rapid series of policy shifts in the South American country that together represent the most ...
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