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US Human Rights Report on Venezuela Doesn’t Pass the Mirror Test
Dissident Voice
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August 19, 2025
by Roger D. Harris / August 19th, 2025 The US State Department’s latest Human Rights Report condemns Venezuela for serious abuses. Weaponizing human rights, accusations are selectively applied to serve a destabilization campaign. In this article,...
Venezuela deploying millions of militia after "outlandish threats" by U.S.
CBS News
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Venezuela President Nicolás Maduro on Monday said he would deploy 4.5 million militia members in response to "outlandish threats" by the United States after Washington raised the bounty for his arrest to $50 million and launched anti-drug...
Venezuela’s Maduro to mobilise millions in militia over US ‘threats’
Al Jazeera
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August 19, 2025
The move comes after the US doubles the bounty for Maduro’s arrest to $50m and deploys three warships in the Caribbean. Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has pledged to mobilise more than four million militia fighters in response to new United...
Trump Sends Military Squadron To Venezuela's Shores After Doubling The Bounty On Maduro's 'head'
Charter 97
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2 Illustrative photo U.S. forces will be deployed in the coming days. Three U.S. guided-missile destroyers USS Gravely, USS Jason Dunham and USS Sampson, 4,000 sailors and Marines, a P-8 reconnaissance aircraft and an attack submarine are headed...
Tomahawk-Armed U.S. Destroyers To Arrive Near Venezuela On Counter-Cartel Mission
SouthFront
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August 19, 2025
The USS Gravely (DDG 107) sails alongside the USS Kearsarge (LHD 3) during maneuvering exercises with the Finnish Navy in the Baltic Sea, May 16, 2022. (U.S. Navy, by MC3 Taylor Parker) Three Arleigh Burke-class destroyers of the United States...
Bolivia election: voters bring two decades of leftist politics to an end
The Conversation
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August 19, 2025
A seismic political shift has taken place in Bolivia. The country’s leftist Movimiento al Socialismo (Mas) party, which has dominated Bolivian politics for nearly 20 years, was voted out of power in a general election on August 17. Centre-right...
Politics AFP Maduro says mobilizing millions of militia after US 'threats'
Yahoo News
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Venezuela's Nicolas Maduro on Monday said he would deploy 4.5 million militia members in response to US "threats," after Washington raised the bounty for his arrest and launched anti-drug operations in the Caribbean. "This week, I will activate a...
PNCR Executive warns of Venezuela-style collapse if US-sanctioned businessman elected
Guyana Chronicle
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August 19, 2025
EXECUTIVE Committee member of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR), Mervyn Williams has cautioned that Guyana could face a Venezuela-style collapse if citizens elect leaders who are already under United States sanctions. Speaking at a...
US Sends Warships Toward Venezuela to Combat Drug Threats, Reuters Says
Yahoo Finance
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US navy soldiers on the deck of the USS Gravely. (Bloomberg) -- The US will send three Aegis guided-missile destroyers to waters off Venezuela in the next 36 hours to address what Washington sees as the threat from drug cartels, Reuters reported,...
Venezuela Condemns U.S. Bounty on President Maduro as “Grotesque Violation of International Law”
teleSUR
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August 18, 2025 Hour: 6:21 pm Venezuela’s Attorney General Tarek William Saab, in his role as president of the Republican Moral Council, has issued a forceful condemnation of the United States’ decision to raise the bounty for the capture of...
Political belligerence in Costa Rica is a gray area
Q Costa Rica
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August 18, 2025
Q COSTARICA — Costa Rica’s president, Rodrigo Chaves, risks being removed from office and barred from holding public office for four years if he violates electoral law, as for the first time in history, the government will be barred from...
Venezuela: Oil Sector Maintains Stability as Crude Returns to US Refineries
Venezuelanalysis
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August 18, 2025
Venezuelan oil production has hovered around 900,000 barrels per day in recent months. (Archive) Caracas, August 18, 2025 (venezuelanalysis.com) – The Venezuelan oil industry has kept a recent trend of a stable output around 900,000 barrels per...
Local, federal police uncover major crime ring led by Venezuelan TdA gangsters
The Sentinel Colorado
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August 19, 2025
DENVER | An investigation that began with a spike in violent crime just outside of Aurora, evolved into a months-long local and federal investigation into allegations that the notorious Tren de Aragua gang was leading a crime ring deep into...
Venezuela: A Year Since the Presidential Elections – Democracy Hijacked
Marxism-Leninism Today
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August 17, 2025
Added to this scenario is an even more serious feature: the exercise of power has become highly discretionary. Invoking the Constitution is merely a rhetorical device. Far from guaranteeing rights, institutions have been reconfigured to forge a...
Venezuela and Azerbaijan sign agreement for tourism development
Prensa Latina - Cuba
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August 18, 2025
The agreement between the agencies Venetur, from the South American nation, and Absheron Travel, from Azerbaijan, includes mechanisms for interaction, coordination, and cooperation that make easy cultural exchange, as well as the issuance and...
Twelve Venezuelans charged with illegal entry to Trinidad
Caribbean National Weekly
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August 18, 2025
Twelve Venezuelan nationals are expected to appear before a magistrate, facing charges of illegal entry and aiding and abetting following the interception of a vessel off the Icacos coast on August 13 in Trinidad and Tobago. Coast Guard officers...
What to know about Bolivia's election that elevated a centrist shaking up the political...
Dayton Daily News - Ohio
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“There has been a paradigm shift,” said Bolivian sociologist Renzo Abruzzese. “What is truly historic is that the old cycle is over. It has carried away the classical leftist thought that dominated much of the 20th century.” The shadow of unrest...
What to know about Bolivia's election that elevated a centrist shaking up the political landscape
Yahoo News
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LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — One candidate is Rodrigo Paz, a conservative centrist senator and son of a neoliberal ex-president who is pitching himself as a moderate reformer. The other is former right-wing president Jorge “Tuto” Quiroga, galvanizing...
What to know about Bolivia's election that elevated a centrist shaking up the political landscape
The Messenger - Kentucky
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LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — One candidate is Rodrigo Paz, a conservative centrist senator and son of a neoliberal ex-president who is pitching himself as a moderate reformer. The other is former right-wing president Jorge “Tuto” Quiroga galvanizing...
Argentina squad for September 2025 World Cup qualifiers vs. Venezuela, Ecuador
Sporting News
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August 18, 2025
Argentina boss Lionel Scaloni has named a sizable squad for the team's final two CONMEBOL World Cup qualifiers of the 2026 cycle. Lionel Messi headlines the group set to take on Venezuela and Ecuador in the last two matches of the 18-game round...