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Venders sell in the street in Caracas, Venezuela, Friday, April 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

Inflation, currency woes worsen Venezuela’s complex crisis as Maduro declares ‘economic emergency’

By Regina Garcia Cano - Associated Press

Jhoan Bastidas gives an interview at his father's house in Maracaibo, Venezuela, Wednesday, March 5, 2025, after being deported from Guantanamo Bay Naval Base. (AP Photo/Juan Arraez)

After a stint in Guantanamo Bay, a Venezuelan deported from the U.S. adjusts to his homeland

By Regina Garcia Cano and Gisela Salomon - Associated Press

Crosses mark graves amid overgrown grass at Corazon de Jesus cemetery in Maracaibo, Venezuela, Nov. 21, 2019. Thieves often raid graves for valuables, while public cemeteries often go abandoned, overgrown with weeds. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Venezuela’s poorest struggle to take care of their dead

By SCOTT SMITH and SHEYLA URDANETA - Associated Press

In this Nov. 15, 2019 photo, street vendors wait for customers in &quot;Las Pulgas&quot; market in Maracaibo, Venezuela. In Maracaibo, located in Venezuela’s western Zulia state along the Colombian border, many residents say they’ve abandoned political marches, lacking faith in leaders or fearing for their personal safety. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Many in Venezuela’s 2nd city turn to prayer, not politics

By SCOTT SMITH - Associated Press

People get a ride on the back of a truck during a blackout in Caracas, Venezuela, Monday, July 22, 2019. The lights went out across much of Venezuela Monday, reviving fears of the blackouts that plunged the country into chaos a few months ago as the government once again accused opponents of sabotaging the nation's hydroelectric power system. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

Opposition rallies as Venezuela blackout eases in some areas

By SCOTT SMITH and CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA - Associated Press

Pillaged vaults stand inside Cuadrado cemetery in Maracaibo, Venezuela, May 16, 2019. Thieves have broken into some of the vaults and coffins since late last year, stealing ornaments and sometimes items from corpses as the country sinks to new depths of deprivation. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Venezuela’s misery doesn’t even spare the dead in Maracaibo

By RODRIGO ABD - Associated Press

In this May 15, 2019 photo, people sleep on the sidewalk to escape from the heat, due to the lack of electricity in their homes that does not allow them to run their air conditioners and fans, during a blackout in Maracaibo, Venezuela. Maracaibo's sweltering heat approaches 100 degrees (37 centigrade) most days, making the air conditioner a must. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Venezuela’s massive blackout sparks boom in generator sales

By SCOTT SMITH - Associated Press

Andres Quintero, left, and Fermin Perez rest on top of Perez's car as they wait in line for over 20 hours to fill their tanks with gas in Cabimas, Venezuela, Thursday, May 16, 2019. U.S. sanctions on oil-rich Venezuela appear to be taking hold, resulting in mile-long lines for fuel in the South American nation’s second-largest city, Maracaibo. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Vast gasoline lines form in oil-rich Venezuela

By SCOTT SMITH and SHEYLA URDANETA - Associated Press

People cross the Tachira River into Colombia near the Simon Bolivar International bridge, which Venezuelan authorities only open to students and the sick, in Cucuta, Colombia, Tuesday, March 12, 2019, on the border with Venezuela. People crossing the river are using makeshift bridges as the water level grows with the approaching rainy season. (AP Photo/Schneyder Mendoza)

Venezuelan city devastated by looting during power outages

By SHEYLA URDANETA - Associated Press

In this Feb. 13, 2019 photo, Luis Gonzalez waits to fill up at a fas station in San Cristobal, Venezuela. Lines stretching over a mile to fuel up have plagued the western region of Venezuela for years, but shortages compounded by U.S. sanctions are likely to spread countrywide as supplies of petrol start drying up and a raging power struggle turning crisis into catastrophe. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

Gas scarcity could turn Venezuela’s crisis to catastrophe

By SCOTT SMITH and SHEYLA URDANETA - Associated Press

In this Aug. 19, 2018 photo, a customer smells a piece of spoiled meat at a market in Maracaibo, Venezuela. Venezuelans are lining up at one of the country's largest markets to buy spoiled meat. It makes some sick, but at bargain prices, it's the only way they can afford beef. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

As electricity fails, desperate Venezuelans buy spoiled meat

Associated Press

There is currently a shortage of eggs throughout Venezuela, with people waiting in line for at least an hour to buy them. The IMF said inflation would more than double in the economically struggling South American country in 2016. (Associated Press)

Nicolas Maduro regime in Venezuela threatened by plunging economy

By Frederic Puglie — Special to The Washington Times