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Discontinued Venezuelan bank notes hang above a cigarette stand in the San Jose del Avila neighborhood in Caracas, Venezuela, Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2019. Working class neighborhoods in Venezuela's capital sifted through charred rubble and smoldering trash on Tuesday, following a day of isolated protests in response to the arrest of National Guardsmen who mounted an uprising against President Nicolas Maduro. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

The Latest: Venezuelan lawyers seeking protection for Guaido

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Roadblocks set up by anti-government protesters block a street in the Cotiza neighborhood during clashes with security forces as some residents show support for a mutiny by a National Guard unit in Caracas, Venezuela, Monday, Jan. 21, 2019. Venezuela's government said Monday it put down the mutiny. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

The Latest: Maduro fires back at US after criticism by Pence

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A tank of Venezuelan Bolivarian National Army moves inside the Military base Paramacay in Valencia, Venezuela, Sunday, Aug. 6, 2017. Venezuelan ruling party chief Diosdado Cabello said the military squashed a "terrorist" attack at the military base Sunday, shortly after a small group of men dressed in military fatigues released a video declaring themselves in rebellion.(AP Photo/Juan Carlos Hernandez)

Pedro Sanchez Venezuela tank deal props up Nicolas Maduro

By Martin Arostegui — Special to The Washington Times

A loyal National Guard soldier looks out to the street from behind his base's wall after an apparent mutiny by some of his fellow guards in the Cotiza neighborhood of Caracas, Venezuela, Monday, Jan. 21, 2019. The disturbance started after a group of men dressed in military fatigues and carrying assault weapons published a series of videos on social media saying they won't recognize President Nicolas Maduro's government. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

Signs of fraying in military support for Venezuela president

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Chile's Foreign Minister Roberto Ampuero, center, attends a meeting of the Lima Group concerning Venezuela in Lima, Peru, Friday, Jan. 4, 2019. A coalition of international leaders gather in Lima to define a strategy for resolving Venezuela's growing crisis ahead of President Nicolas Maduro's Jan. 10 inauguration to a second term, which is widely dismissed as illegitimate. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

Foreign diplomats urge Venezuela’s Maduro to hand over power

By FRANKLIN BRICENO and SCOTT SMITH - Associated Press

"We have a very powerful enemy, the 'gringo' empire," Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said during a Dec. 26 event in western Venezuela. "Whoever dares to invade Venezuela, our sacred territory, will meet a people with a rifle in hand and meet [armed forces] ready to fight." (Associated Press/File)

Nicolas Maduro, Venezuela president, defies critics before second inauguration

By Frederic Puglie - Special to The Washington Times

Journalists talk in El Nacional's newsroom, Venezuela's last nationally circulated, opposition newspaper, in Caracas, Venezuela, Thursday, Dec. 13, 2018. The newspaper will stop publishing its print edition amid unrelenting government pressure and paper shortages, editors said Thursday. Their final edition will run Friday after 75 years in print. It will become an exclusively online publication. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

Venezuela’s El Nacional newspaper to cease print edition

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Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro holds a small copy of his nation's constitution as he speaks at a polling center after voting in local elections in Caracas, Venezuela, Sunday, Dec. 9, 2018. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos) ** FILE **

Nicolas Maduro’s backers taunt opposition, U.S. over Russian bomber visit to Venezuela

By Dan Boylan - The Washington Times

In this Aug. 26, 2018 photo, Roberto Patino greets children at a children's center in the La Vega neighborhood of Caracas, Venezuela. Patino, a rising star in Venezuela's unravelling opposition movement, and other grassroots organizers in their 20s and 30s have been feeding children, encouraging women to become community activists and organizing protests to demand public services like reliable drinking water and electricity. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

Venezuela’s next generation of opposition plays a long game

By SCOTT SMITH - Associated Press

Members of a military agency that transports valuables remove gold bars from a military plane to be taken to Venezuela's Central Bank, at the Carlota military airport in Caracas, Venezuela, Thursday, March 1, 2018. Since January, Venezuela's central bank has accumulated 3.7 tons of gold from the Orinoco mining belt in southern Bolivar state, which is almost half of the 8.5 tons dispatched in all of 2017.&#160;(AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

Nicolas Maduro, Venezuela gold targeted by Donald Trump

By Dan Boylan - The Washington Times

Migrants travel on a cattle truck, as a thousands-strong caravan of Central American migrants slowly makes its way toward the U.S. border, between Pijijiapan and Arriaga, Mexico, Friday, Oct. 26, 2018. Many migrants said they felt safer traveling and sleeping with several thousand strangers in unknown towns than hiring a smuggler or trying to make the trip alone. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

How migrants manipulate generous U.S. asylum system

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

FILE — In this Sept. 18, 2018 file photo, Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro speaks during a press conference at the Miraflores Presidential Palace, in Caracas, Venezuela. Prosecutors said Thursday, Oct. 18, that people linked to the Venezuelan government and Mexican companies conspired to overcharge Venezuela for basic food aid packages. President Maduro began distributing subsidized food as his nation fell deeper into political and economic turmoil, but critics say Maduro has essentially weaponized food, distributing the boxes primarily to government workers and supporters. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos, File)

U.S. warns Venezuela against end-run on sanctions

By Dan Boylan - The Washington Times

Staff members of jailed councilman Alberto Alban Salazar embrace outside the Bolivarian National Security Service (SEBIN) headquarters in Caracas, Venezuela, Monday, Oct. 8, 2018. Venezuela's Attorney General Tarek William Saab said Monday that Salazar, who was arrested on suspicion of involvement in a failed assassination attempt on President Nicolas Maduro, has died of suicide. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

U.N. urges Venezuela to probe opposition politician’s death

By Scott Smith and Fabiola Sanchez - Associated Press

In this Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2018 photo, David David points at a photo of his brother Franklin David, during an interview in his office in Santa Teresa Del Tuy, Venezuela. Franklin David was arrested in this town outside Caracas for doing what he has done almost every day for the past 25 years: selling car parts. In a surprise raid, armed police officers showed up at Franklin David’s warehouse and hauled him away for allegedly raising prices too much. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

Venezuela merchants face arrest for defying Maduro’s reforms

By JOSHUA GOODMAN - Associated Press

Customers wait outside of a government bank to get new bank notes in Maracaibo, Venezuela, Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2018. The new currency has five fewer zeros in a bid to tame soaring inflation. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

Venezuelans confused over new bills under economic overhaul

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A butcher pushes beef ribs to sell at Las Pulgas market in Maracaibo, Venezuela, Sunday, Aug. 19, 2018. Venezuelans are bracing for a 3,000 percent hike in the minimum wage on Monday, leaving one butcher contemplating firing some of his six employees just to stay in business, and the introduction of a new currency that lops five zeros off the country’s fast-depreciating bills. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

Frustration rules as Venezuela unveils new currency

By SCOTT SMITH - Associated Press

People line up to buy cheese at a market in Caracas, Venezuela, Saturday, Aug. 18, 2018. Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro raised wages for the fifth time this year while saying he's looking to establish a single exchange rate tied to the nation's fledgling cryptocurrency. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

Venezuelans jittery ahead of sudden economic reforms

By SCOTT SMITH - Associated Press

FILE - In this Dec.13, 2017 file photo, president of Venezuelan parliament Julio Borges leaves after receiving the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought, an award given to Venezuela's opposition, in Strasbourg, eastern France. On Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2018, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro implicated Borges, one of the country’s most prominent opposition leaders, in an alleged assassination attempt using drones. (AP Photo/Jean-Francois Badias, File)

Venezuela top court orders lawmakers arrested

By Scott Smith - Associated Press

Press members wait as they try to get access to an apartment complex where an allegedly armed drone crashed, causing a fire, in Caracas, Venezuela, Sunday, Aug. 5, 2018. Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro dodged an apparent assassination attempt the previous day when drones armed with explosives detonated while he was delivering a speech to hundreds of soldiers being broadcast live on television, according to officials. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

Venezuela detains 6, hunts more in drone attack on Nicolas Maduro

By Scott Smith and Christine Armario - Associated Press

Employees and people wait outside of the main entrance of an office building during a blackout in Caracas, Venezuela, Tuesday, July 31, 2018. The electrical system suffered a failure that left the Venezuelan capital and part of the states of Miranda and Vargas without service, according to authorities. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

Power outage throws Venezuela’s capital into confusion

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