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How Turkey Props up Venezuela

The government of Recep Tayyip Erdogan has provided an unexpected sanctions evasion lifeline for Nicolas Maduro’s Venezuela.
The Trump administration is classifying certain Latin American drug traffickers as terrorists and enemy combatants, allowing ...
President Maduro’s appeal to oil-rich nations Sunday laid bare just how isolated he has become, a Latin American oil expert says, before describing Venezuela as "broke" and drowning in $150 billion of ...
Troops from the USA’s 22nd Marine Expeditionary Force were pictured firing mortar systems in live-fire drills and training on ...
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has grown increasingly paranoid of US airstrikes following recent threats from the Trump administration, with the dictator now regularly rotating his sleeping beds ...
Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro warned that his country must "stand like warriors … ready to smash the teeth of the North American empire" Wednesday, a moment that coincided with the U.S. seizure of ...
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro said he had a phone call with U.S. President Donald Trump amid escalating tensions over U.S. sanctions and regional security, portraying the exchange as amicable.
Time is a tyrant’s best friend. Nicolás Maduro is not leaving power because he doesn’t feel an existential threat to his regime. On the contrary, he is betting that internal divisions over Venezuela ...
Nicolás Maduro believes that his predecessor and political father, the late Hugo Chávez, appeared before him in the form of a small bird and a butterfly. He also thinks that celebrating Christmas two ...
Several senior Venezuelan officials and opposition politicians would have a claim to power in a transition, but all would face difficulties. By Anatoly Kurmanaev President Trump has been increasing ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. imposed sanctions on three nephews of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, among others, on Thursday as President Donald Trump looks to inflict further pressure on the South ...
The United States has announced new sanctions on shipping companies and vessels it says help move Venezuelan oil, putting more pressure on a major prop of President Nicolas Maduro’s regime a day after ...