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Former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani, a lawyer for President Donald Trump, speaks during a news conference at Four Seasons Total Landscaping on legal challenges to vote counting in Pennsylvania, Saturday Nov. 7, 2020, in Philadelphia. **FILE**

Trump’s legal team claims issues with Dominion voting software

By Alex Swoyer and S.A. Miller - The Washington Times

FILE - In this May 3, 2020 file photo, security forces guard the shore area and a boat in which authorities claim a group of armed men landed in the port city of La Guaira, Venezuela. Interior Minister Nestor Reverol said on state television that security forces overcame before dawn Sunday an armed maritime incursion with speedboats from neighboring Colombia in which several attackers were killed and others detained. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix, File)

Failed Maduro coup leader flew on pro-govt magnate’s plane

By JOSHUA GOODMAN - Associated Press

Judge lifts stay on sale of Venezuela’s US refineries

By SCOTT SMITH - Associated Press

FILE - In this Aug. 27, 2018 file photo, Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, listens to Russian Rosneft CEO Igor Sechin during his flight to visit Chernigovets coal mine, in Beryozovsky, Kemerovo region, Russia. On Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2020, the Treasury Department slapped sanctions on Rosneft’s trading arm and its CEO, accusing the Geneva-based firm of providing a critical lifeline to Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro. (Alexei Druzhinin, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)

Ending Putin’s support of Venezuela no easy feat for US

By JOSHUA GOODMAN and DARIA LITVINOVA - Associated Press

Illustration on Bernie Sanders and Socialism by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

On Venezuela, Bernie Sanders has a lot more explaining to do

By Jose Nino and Reed Cooley

FILE - In this Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2016 file photo, United Socialist Party of Venezuela lawmaker Hugo Carvajal speaks during an interview at the National Assembly administrative offices, in Caracas, Venezuela. Carvajal, Venezuela's longtime spy chief was arrested Friday, April 12, 2019 in Madrid by Spanish police acting on a United States warrant for the alleged trafficking of tons of cocaine. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano, File)

The rise and fall of former Venezuelan spymaster ‘El Pollo’

By ARITZ PARRA and JOSHUA GOODMAN - Associated Press

FILE - In this Dec. 12, 2018, file photo, Cuba's Director-General of U.S. Affairs Carlos Fernandez de Cossio makes a statement to reporters, in Havana, Cuba. De Cossio says his nation has no troops in Venezuela but it maintains the right to military and intelligence cooperation with its ally. (AP Photo/Desmond Boylan, File)

No Cuban troops in Venezuela, Cuban diplomat tells AP

By MATTHEW LEE and MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN - Associated Press

Vice President Mike Pence speaks to the annual meeting of the National Rifle Association, Friday, April 26, 2019, in Indianapolis. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump threatens Cuba as US supports Venezuela uprising

By MATTHEW LEE and BEN FOX - Associated Press

CORRECTS SPELLING OF GUAIDO - Venezuela's self-proclaimed interim president Juan Guaido walks into the crowd after he addressed transportation workers during a demonstration of support for him in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2019. Venezuela is gripped by a historic political and economic crisis despite having the world’s largest proven oil reserves. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

Venezuela’s Maduro closes Brazil border to block aid entry

By SCOTT SMITH and JOSHUA GOODMAN - Associated Press

Anti-government protesters gather for the start of a nationwide demonstration demanding the resignation of President Nicolas Maduro, in Caracas, Venezuela, Saturday, Feb. 2, 2019. Momentum is growing for Venezuela's opposition movement led by lawmaker Juan Guaido, who has called supporters back into the streets for nationwide protests Saturday, escalating pressure on embattled Maduro to step down. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

The Latest: Thousands rally in Spain to support Guaido

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Juan Guaido, left, takes a selfie photo with his wife Fabiana Rosales and his daughter Miranda Guaido upon arrival to swear in the new board of the National Assembly in Caracas, Venezuela. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano, File)

Juan Guaido, Venezuela interim president, backed by youth

By Frederic Puglie — Special to The Washington Times

Illustration on the suppression of comedy in Venezuela by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

How comedians in Venezuela try to stay ahead of the horrors, and not get arrested

By A.J. Rice

Spanish court allows extradition of ex-Chavez bodyguard

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FILE - In this June 11, 2012 file photo, Venezuela's former Foreign Minister Ali Rodriguez delivers a speech as he takes office as secretary general of the Union of South American Nations, UNASUR at the Presidential Palace in Bogota, Colombia. Venezuelan state TV said Monday, Nov. 19, 2018, that Rodriguez passed away in Havana. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara, File)

Venezuelan ambassador to Cuba Ali Rodriguez dies

By JORGE RUEDA - Associated Press

Spanish court agrees to extradition of Hugo Chavez’s aide

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In this, Monday, March 12, 2018 photo, Helene Villalonga speaks during an interview at AMAVEX INC., an organization she founded that helps reunify migrant families and victims of domestic violence find shelter, in Doral, Fla. People who study immigrant trends in the United States says the Venezuelans seem to be following a similar path as the Cubans who fled the revolution in 1959 and the upheaval that followed. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

US was a temporary stop for many Venezuelans; now it’s home

By GISELA SALOMON - Associated Press

FILE - In this Oct. 15, 2014 file photo, Venezuela's Minister of Interior and Justice Miguel Rodriguez Torres, left, speaks with President Nicolas Maduro during a break at a press conference with the national and foreign media at Miraflores Presidential palace in Caracas, Venezuela. Torres, a former spy chief for Hugo Chavez who has been leading a movement of alienated leftists opposed to President Maduro, was hauled away Tuesday, March 13, 2018, by agents from the Sebin intelligence police, according to Torres' aides. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos, File)

Venezuelan police arrest Chavez’s ex-spy chief at event

By FABIOLA SANCHEZ and JOSHUA GOODMAN - Associated Press

"We need to establish a relationship of respect, expressing desires for cooperation and setting aside propaganda," said Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, the Mexican presidential front-runner who casts himself as the ultimate political outsider. (Associated Press/File)

Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, Mexico’s front-runner for president, challenges establishment

By Paul Imison - Special to The Washington Times

In this Jan. 25, 2017 photo, Colombia's actor Andres Parra plays the role of Venezuela's former President Hugo Chavez during the filming of &quot;El Comandante&quot; in Bogota, Colombia. The life of Chavez, who mesmerized Venezuela’s impoverished masses before dying of cancer in 2013, is being dramatized in a Spanish-language TV series that is generating a backlash even before it airs. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

Hugo Chavez returns to life in TV show criticized by allies

By ALBA TOBELLA and JOSHUA GOODMAN - Associated Press

Nicolas Maduro's defiance comes at a time when Venezuela's economy is rated perhaps the worst performing in the world. (Associated Press)

Nicolas Maduro of Venezuela doubles down on leftist policies despite election setback

By Frederic Puglie - Special to The Washington Times