The military cancels a drag show at an Air Force base scheduled for Thursday. Congressman Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) questioned the Pentagon over the event. The Senate is racing to pass the debt ceiling bill amid a looming default. But some senators tell us they’re voting no. Find out why in our latest coverage from Capitol…

Gov. Ron Desantis blasted the Biden administration on March 11 for apparent plans to buy crude oil from “murderous tyrant” Nicolas Maduro, president of Venezuela, and for “knee-capping the American energy industry.” DeSantis made the comments during a roundtable discussion at a church in Doral, Fla. with Lt. Governor Jeanette Nunez and Venezuelan-American panelists. All spoke…

A former Venezuelan general accused of participating in a narco-terrorism conspiracy with the country’s president, Nicolás Maduro, says there’s no way he participated in such a scheme. After all, how could Clíver Antonio Alcalá Cordones have conspired with Maduro, when the CIA knows he was one of the rebels working to overthrow Maduro’s socialist government? This was…

On Oct. 25, a Center for Strategic and International Studies panel discussed some of the environmental damage taking place in Venezuela, which has been led since 1999 by socialist Hugo Chavez and, after Chavez’s death in 2013, socialist Nicolás Maduro. Sponsored by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), much of the event focused…

LONDON—Britain on Thursday sanctioned one of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s envoys, Alex Saab, in connection with an allegedly corrupt deal to obtain supplies for Maduro’s government-run food subsidy programme. Saab, a Colombian national, is currently detained in Cape Verde facing extradition to the United States, which accuses him of helping Maduro’s government skirt U.S. sanctions…

Commentary Long before the current protests in Cuba, the Cuban people’s distaste for their dictatorship showed, as many shifted from the old revolutionary slogan “Hasta la victoria siempre,” meaning “on to victory, always,” to “Hasta cuándo?” meaning “how much longer.” The protests are a moment of hope and foreboding. Since the mid-1990s, not one protest…

CARACAS—Venezuelan prosecutors on Monday said they had charged opposition politician Freddy Guevara with terrorism and treason, among other allegations, after the country’s intelligence service arrested him from his car on a Caracas highway. Guevara is a close ally of opposition leader Juan Guaido, who is recognized as the South American country’s legitimate president by the…

Commentary Organized guerrillas and a totalitarian regime are attempting to overthrow the legitimate government of Colombia, the most crucial U.S. ally in Latin America. Funded by narco-dollars and motivated by power and Marxist ideology, this terrorist alliance has propagated a misperception: that its mass violence in Colombian cities, which spiked on April 28, began as…

WASHINGTON—U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken vowed on Tuesday that Washington would work with partners in the region to maintain pressure on Venezuelan regime leader Nicolas Maduro for a peaceful return to democracy. In pre-recorded remarks to a conference on Latin America, Blinken also said the Biden administration would continue criticism of the “repression of…

CARACAS—Facebook has frozen Venezuelan regime leader Nicolas Maduro’s page for violating policies against spreading misinformation about COVID-19 by promoting a remedy he claims, without evidence, can cure the disease, a company spokesman said on Saturday. Maduro in January described Carvativir, an oral solution derived from thyme, as a “miracle” medication that neutralizes the coronavirus with…