by WorldTribune Staff, March 25, 2019 Two Russian Air Force planes carrying troops and tons of equipment landed in Venezuela on March 23, reports say. A flight tracking website showed two aircraft left a Russian military base for the Venezuelan capital Caracas on March 22. The arrival of the military jets in Venezuela was confirmed by Javier […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 11, 2019 As the blackout that has crippled the capital of socialist Venezuela dragged into its fifth day on March 11, at least 17 people were reported dead as a result of the power outage which has left Caracas without Internet, mobile phones, banks, credit-card machines, or air-conditioning. Pro-Maduro motorcycle gangs, […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 7, 2019 Vice President Mike Pence on March 6 announced the U.S. would revoke the visas of 77 individuals tied to Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro and also called out Cuba for propping up Maduro’s brutal socialist regime. “We will continue to hold the Maduro regime accountable until ‘libertad’ is restored in […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 25, 2019 President Donald Trump, in a Feb. 18 speech in Miami, said that “The days of socialism and communism are numbered, not only in Venezuela, but in Nicaragua and Cuba as well.” “And right on cue, the dominos started tottering,” Monica Showalter wrote for American Thinker on Feb. 24. Cuban […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 5, 2019 Hugo Chavez, the leader of Venezuela’s socialist revolution, once said that “to be rich is bad.” Last summer, the stepsons of current socialist leader Nicolas Maduro dropped $45,000 on an 18-night stay at the Ritz hotel in Paris. “These rich Chavista kids have also been spotted in the best […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 4, 2019 U.S. President Donald Trump on Feb. 3 said that he will not meet with Venezuelan socialist leader Nicolas Maduro and said that sending troops to the crisis-ridden country is “an option.” In an interview with CBS News, Trump reiterated that military intervention was a possibility. “Certainly, it’s something that’s […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 3, 2019 A top general in Venezuela’s air force said the country’s military is poised for mutiny against socialist President Nicolas Maduro. Gen. Francisco Yanez of the air force’s high command said in a Feb. 2 video posted to Twitter that “People of Venezuela, 90 percent of the armed forces of […]
by WorldTribune Staff, January 27, 2019 Secretary of State Mike Pompeo at UN challenged all nations to recognize opposition leader Juan Guaido as the interim president of Venezuela or admit they support tyranny. “Now it is time for every other nation to pick a side. No more delays, no more games. Either you stand with […]
by WorldTribune Staff, January 23, 2019 With support from the U.S., opposition leaders in Venezuela have sparked what they hope is the beginning of the end of the socialist regime of President Nicolas Maduro. Reports on the ground say smaller-scale demonstrations that began on Jan. 21 began to spread on Jan. 22 with protests erupting […]
CELEBRATING 20 YEARS OF EXCELLENCE: Countdown: Top stories of 2018 by WorldTribune Staff, January 9, 2019 A former Venezuelan Supreme Court justice, who had backed the country’s socialist government in every major legal dispute since President Nicolas Maduro assumed power, has fled to the United States. Former Supreme Court Justice Christian Zerpa told a Miami […]
