Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro, who dined on steak and lived in a palace as his country starved, is now in “hell on Earth’’ in a Brooklyn jail — and machine-gun-toting authorities are making sure he stays there.
Venezuelan state-run oil company PDVSA has begun cutting crude production because it is running out of storage capacity due to an ongoing US oil blockade that has reduced exports to zero, piling more pressure on an interim government trying to hang onto power in the face of US threats of more military action.
Thousands have seen their travel plans in the Caribbean upended over the weekend after the US launched a series of airstrikes in Venezuela and captured former dictator Nicolas Maduro.
Despite pulling back from social media, claiming the public scrutiny made her feel like she was in “a different form of prison”, discourse around the case is at an all time high after new videos were released.
Debate over the Democratic Party’s direction pits those favoring “democratic socialism” against those supporting “the neoliberal framework that helped destroy America’s middle class, weakened unions and left rural America feeling abandoned,” argues Brendan Frasier at The Hill.
"These people are not from my country," Cinthia Davila of Venezuelan said of the pro-Maduro mob gathered outside the prison. "These people don't know my country."
All it took for the Giants to halt a nine-game losing streak to the Cowboys was the chance to worsen their draft position and anger fans looking to the future.
Bringing down Maduro was about bringing the Western hemisphere back under the influence of the United States — and brushing back America’s nastiest enemies.
David Bowie’s had a vigorous afterlife since dying in New York 10 years ago. He conquered Billboard’s album chart for the first time in his career with the dark jazzy masterpiece “Blackstar,” released Jan. 8, 2016 — just two days before his death. His best-known singles surged back into the top 100 on both sides...
A nutjob whacked a 71-year-old man in the face with a shovel during a random attack in Brooklyn while the Big Apple was blanketed in snow, police said.
Three years shy of its 50th anniversary, Iran’s tyrannical, terror-sponsoring regime may finally be nearing its breaking point. Cross your fingers. The key question now is: What will the world — particularly America — do to ensure, and hasten, its demise, and steer it back toward a respectable position in the civilized world? For nearly...
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