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The Corrupt Venezuelan Regime, according to the United States Department of Justice. Corruption in Venezuela is extremely severe and permeates all aspects of politics, business, and law enforcement. [1] The discovery of oil in Venezuela in the early 20th century worsened political corruption. [2]
Axios reported that President Donald Trump and his team wanted a regime change in Venezuela go in a similar fashion to the Fall of the Assad regime [35] Puerto Rican governor Jenniffer González-Colón said in a letter to US President Donald Trump that Maduro "is an open threat to the United States, our national security and stability in the ...
The Council on Foreign Relations called Venezuela "the archetype of a failed petrostate", and said that "oil continues to play the dominant role in the country's fortunes". It said that the fall in oil prices since 2014, due to the 2010s oil glut, "sent Venezuela into an economic and political spiral". [286]
Puerto Rico’s new Republican governor is drawing attention to Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro’s military threats against the U.S. island in the wake of President-elect Trump’s calls for ...
“The freedom of Puerto Rico is pending, and we will achieve it with Brazilian troops.” Maduro’s threat came a day after he was sworn in for a new term as president of Venezuela, a position ...
The governor of Puerto Rico pleaded for President-elect Trump to intervene after Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro threatened to invade the U.S. island territory. In a letter addressed to Trump ...
The Venezuelan presidential crisis was a political crisis concerning the leadership and the legitimate president of Venezuela between 2019 and 2023, with the nation and the world divided in support for Nicolás Maduro or Juan Guaidó.
On 1 November 2018 Trump signed an executive order to "ban US persons from dealing with entities and individuals involved with 'corrupt or deceptive' gold sales from Venezuela". [ 163 ] In mid-February 2019, National Assembly legislator Angel Alvarado said that about eight tons of gold had been taken from the vault while the head of the Central ...