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Venezuelan politician and former President of the National Assembly (1983)
Available reporting and public records in the provided sources do not identify any U.S. senators as “getting money back from Venezuela.” The documents instead show U.S. senators sponsoring legislation...
Most major international institutions and many Western governments did not recognize Venezuela’s 2018 presidential vote as free and fair; the OAS declared the May 2018 process lacked legitimacy and ma...
Available reporting and official records in the provided sources show no published evidence that Adam Schiff has received or sent financial transactions linked to the Venezuelan government or Venezuel...
Since 2018 international responses to Venezuelan elections have split along geopolitical and regional lines: many Western governments and regional blocs rejected the Maduro-administered votes as neith...
Venezuela’s highest court and the comptroller have justified long-term political disqualifications of María Corina Machado and other opposition figures by citing administrative and alleged criminal li...
Prior administrations repeatedly applied diplomatic pressure, sanctions and covert backing for the opposition against Nicolás Maduro but stopped short of direct military removal because of legal const...
Venezuela’s opposition since 2015 has cleaved into at least two enduring strategic camps: a confrontational bloc centered on maximal pressure—mass protest, international isolation of Maduro, and occas...
The short answer: the United States did not publicly acknowledge executing a direct, overt military coup in Venezuela in 2019, but American policy and covert tools were actively deployed in ways that ...
Venezuela’s slide into authoritarian rule and the concentration of power that left the country “under the thumb” is the product of a multi-decade domestic transformation begun under Hugo Chávez and co...
Venezuela’s 2018 and 2024 presidential contests were monitored only selectively by international actors, with many mainstream intergovernmental bodies declining participation and the missions that did...
Western governments and many regional actors rejected the legitimacy of Venezuela’s 2018 presidential vote as flawed and illegitimate, actions that set the stage for a diplomatic split in 2019 when th...
Electoral observers, opposition groups and multiple international reports documented a pattern of irregularities, exclusions and alleged fraud surrounding Venezuela’s 2018 and 2024 presidential contes...