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Venezuela's leftist leader Maduro makes a play for evangelical voters

Evangelical Christians are often courted by right-wing politicians. But in Venezuela, left-wing President Nicolás Maduro is trying to secure the church's support in the run-up to elections.

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With patriotic reggaeton and videos, Venezuela's government fans territorial dispute with Guyana

Venezuelan textbooks contain maps of the region in which students learn to quickly point out their homeland as well as neighboring Colombia, Brazil and Guyana

The Independent UK

Is Javier Milei's Movement in Argentina a Cult of Personality in the Name of Liberty?

The stakes are high for this weekend's presidential election.

Reason

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Was the Radical Left Correct About the IMF and World Bank?

Alex Gladstein on how "monetary colonialism" has crippled the Third World

Reason

Ex-Venezuelan spy chief pleads not guilty to charges alleging he flooded US with drugs

A former Venezuelan spy chief and longtime adviser to the country’s late leader Hugo Chávez has pleaded not guilty to decade-old drug trafficking charges, a day after his extradition from Spain

The Independent UK

Ex-Venezuelan spy chief Carvajal is extradited from Spain to US on drug trafficking charges

Venezuela’s former spy chief, retired Maj. Gen. Hugo Carvajal, is being extradited from Spain to New York to face drug trafficking charges

The Independent UK

Venezuela government's ban on longtime foe draws attention to the opposition's presidential primary

Maria Corina Machado has been a longtime foe of Venezuela’s government, and not exactly a unifying figure for its critics

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Iran's president begins Latin America tour with stop in Venezuela

In his first visit to Latin America, Iran’s hardline president has met with his Venezuelan counterpart and declared both countries have “a common enemy,” alluding to the United States

The Independent UK

Opponents compete to square off against Venezuela's powerful leader

Leaders of Venezuela’s fractured opposition are shaking voters’ hands and promising — yet again — that they will defeat President Nicolás Maduro at the ballot box

The Independent UK

Inside Venezuela’s oil corruption scandal

Dozens of business figures and politicians have been arrested so far this year in a £17bn corruption scandal that has rocked Venezuela and its state-run oil company.

The Week

US judge sends Hugo Chavez's ex nurse to prison for 15 years

A federal judge in Miami has handed down a 15-year prison sentence to the former nurse of late Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez for taking bribes from a billionaire media mogul to green-light lucrative currency transactions when she served as Venezuela's national treasurer

The Independent UK

Shadowy brokers walk off with billions in Venezuelan oil

Dozens of obscure brokers are at the center of a new crackdown in Venezuela on corruption in the state-run oil industry that has government insiders scurrying for cover

The Independent UK

Venezuela oil czar in surprise resignation amid graft probes

The man responsible for running Venezuela’s oil industry — the one that pays for virtually everything in the troubled country, from subsidized food to ridiculously cheap gas — has quit amid investigations into alleged corruption among public officials

The Independent UK

Venezuelans still miss Chavez, want Maduro to do 'better'

President Hugo Chávez told Venezuelans to choose Nicolás Maduro as his successor during his last televised message before dying of cancer

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A generation of Venezuelan children know only struggles

A generation of children in Venezuela have only known a country in crisis, plagued over the last decade or more by shortages, inflation and desperation

Financial Times

How Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro outfoxed the west

The repressive leader has weathered an economic crisis, sanctions and an uprising. What should the US do with him now?

The Independent UK

A decade under Maduro, migration marks Venezuelans’ lives

Few Venezuelans have not had their lives touched by migration over the last 10 years, when more than 7 million people left the struggling South American country

The Conversation

I assisted Carter’s work encouraging democracy – and saw how his experience, persistence and engineer’s mindset helped build a freer Latin America over decades

When former President Jimmy Carter and his wife Rosalynn Carter founded the nonprofit Carter Center in 1982, one of their goals was to help Latin American countries – many of which were emerging from decades of military dictatorship – transition to democracies.

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The Independent UK

Venezuela frees former spy chief who defied Nicolás Maduro

Venezuela’s government has released a former spy chief for the late Hugo Chavez who spent nearly five years in prison for spearheading a movement of disgruntled leftists that defied President Nicolás Maduro’s rule

Los Angeles Times

Still wrestling with Jan. 6 fallout, US contends with Bolsonaro’s Florida stay after Brazil riots

WASHINGTON — The U.S. government is struggling to contend with the Florida stay of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, who many blame for violent riots this week in Brazil’s capital.

The Independent UK

Venezuela's Maduro enters 2023 seeking global recognition

Nearly a decade since inheriting Venezuela's leadership, President Nicolás Maduro is working to regain the international recognition he lost when his 2018 re-election was deemed a sham by many

Miami Herald

Ex-Venezuelan treasurer, husband convicted of corruption in first trial of its kind in Florida

MIAMI — A former Venezuelan national treasurer and her husband were found guilty Tuesday of accepting tens of millions of dollars in bribes and moving their tainted money to Miami in the first foreign corruption case of its kind to go to trial in South Florida.

Radio France Internationale

Venezuelan photographer Fabiola Ferrero wins Carmignac Photojournalism Award

Venezuelan photographer, Fabiola Ferrero, won the 12th Carmignac Photojournalism Award for her series Venezuela, The Wells Run Dry, documenting the disappearance of the Venezuelan middle class following the collapse of the oil industry.

Los Angeles Times

The left now rules most of Latin America. Will it be able to live up to its promises?

MEXICO CITY — Over the last four years, leftist candidates have won presidential elections in one Latin American country after the other: Mexico, Argentina, Bolivia, Peru, Chile and Colombia.

Reason

With Lula's Win in Brazil, the Left Dominates Latin America

The question now is whether Bolsonaro’s coalition can remain in place once the man himself is out of power.

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