LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Will Racke In a Thursday statement, the State Department ordered families of U.S. diplomats at the embassy in Caracas to leave Venezuela in advance of a national vote that could upend the country’s political order and worsen its ongoing meltdown. Anticipating escalating violence, State also initiated a voluntary evacuation of…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Kody Fairfield Claiming to be primed for civil war, a Venezuelan general issued orders to prepare for the future use of snipers against anti-government protesters, according to a secret recording of a regional command meeting held three weeks ago at a military base in the northwestern Venezuelan city of…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Will Racke Venezuelan police officers have reached a breaking point after weeks of repeated deployments to battle fellow citizens protesting the regime of President Nicolas Maduro. Daily clashes with desperate demonstrators have left members of the National Guard, the country’s paramilitary police force in charge of riot control, demoralized and…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Kody Fairfield Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has likened the harassment of government officials and their families outside of Venezuela to the treatment of Jews under the Nazis, report Reuters. “We are the new Jews of the 21st century that Hitler pursued,” Maduro said during the cabinet meeting. “We don’t carry…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Will Racke General Motors denounced the Venezuelan government Thursday for what it called an “illegal judicial seizure of its assets” by public authorities. The U.S. automaker halted operations at its auto plant in the industrial hub of Valencia when state officials took over the facility amid massive public protests…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Andrew Follett Venezuela’s socialist government stripped its congress of power late Thursday in what opposition leaders are calling a coup. Venezuela’s Supreme Court ruled that all powers vested under the legislative body will be transferred to the country’s highest court. Venezuela’s opposition legislators are calling this a coup, as…
In recent times, Venezuela has been the object of many headlines across the globe that detail its current economic predicament. Once Latin America’s most stable country, Venezuela is now experiencing a historically unprecedented economic and social collapse. How did such a nation awash with bountiful oil reserves and numerous decades of democratic stability stoop to…
By JP Carroll Things have gotten so desperate in Venezuela that people have resorted to picking food out of the trash so they do not starve to death. To deal with increasing shortages of various goods, including food and drinks, “I come here looking for food because if I didn’t, I’d starve to death,” former…
By JP Carroll Communist Cuba’s President Raul Castro said Saturday that his island nation would never rejoin the Organization of American States (OAS), an apparent effort to show solidarity with socialist Venezuela. The OAS is an international organization meant to serve as a discussion forum for its 35 member states to promote cooperation in the Western Hemisphere. Washington, D.C. serves…
If there is one thing Bernie Sanders is trying to avoid it’s comparisons between his brand of socialism and what is happening in Venezuela. Sanders has skirted the issue, even admitting he should know more about how socialism has worked in Latin America. But all that is lost now as Nicolas Maduro, the authoritarian leader…