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Venezuelan politician jailed in 2018 drone attack sent home

By SCOTT SMITH - Associated Press

Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro, accompanied by first lady Cilia Flores, greets supporters during an event at the Miraflores Presidential Palace to mark Youth Day, in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2020. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

Venezuela 1st lady’s nephew takes drug case to Supreme Court

By JOSHUA GOODMAN - Associated Press

Then-Rep. David Rivera, R-Fla., speaks in Miami, Thursday, Feb. 24, 2011. Democrats are sharpening attacks on a former congressman who was quietly elected to the Miami GOP's executive committee despite a federal investigation into a $50 million lobbying contract with a favorite Republican target in south Florida: Venezuela's socialist government. Rivera's election to the 160-member committee, which has not been previously reported, was largely overlooked amid the results of Miami's Aug. 18 primaries. AP Photo/Alan Diaz, File)

Ex Miami lawmaker hired by Venezuela elected to GOP board

By JOSHUA GOODMAN - Associated Press

A city worker sprays disinfectant on shuttered storefronts in the Catia neighborhood of Caracas, Venezuela, Saturday, Aug. 8, 2020, amid the new coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

Online exchange blocked in Venezuela ahead of health bonuses

By JOSHUA GOODMAN and SCOTT SMITH - Associated Press

Venezuelan rebels sentenced to prison in failed beach attack

By SCOTT SMITH and FABIOLA SÁNCHEZ - Associated Press

FILE - This May 4, 2020 file photo released by the Venezuelan Miraflores presidential press office shows what Venezuelan authorities identify as the I.D. cards of former U.S. special forces citizen Airan Berry, right, and Luke Denman, left, in Caracas, Venezuela. The two former Green Berets were arrested in May 2020 while participating in a botched raid organized from neighboring Colombia to oust Maduro. (Miraflores Palace presidential press office via AP, File)

Ex-Green Berets sentenced to 20 years for Venezuela attack

By SCOTT SMITH and JOSHUA GOODMAN - Associated Press

State Department Special Representative for Venezuela Ambassador Elliott Abrams appears before a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2020. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

With renewed US backing, Guaidó pushes anti-Maduro fight

By SCOTT SMITH and FABIOLA SÁNCHEZ - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sept. 24, 2018 file photo, Claudia Patricia Diaz Guillen, the former nurse of late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, leaves the national court in Madrid, Spain, where she fought and won a case of extradition at Venezuela's request for alleged money laundering. It was 2014 when Diaz, then Venezuela's former treasurer, was looking for a safe haven to store the unexplained wealth she had accumulated over the years, and allegedly turned to one of the oldest ways of moving vast sums of money anonymously: buying gold. (AP Photo/Paul White, File)

Gold in secret vault is traced to Hugo Chávez’s former nurse

By JOSHUA GOODMAN - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sept. 24, 2018 file photo, Claudia Patricia Diaz Guillen, the former nurse of late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, leaves the national court in Madrid, Spain, where she fought and won a case of extradition at Venezuela's request for alleged money laundering. It was 2014 when Diaz, then Venezuela's former treasurer, was looking for a safe haven to store the unexplained wealth she had accumulated over the years, and allegedly turned to one of the oldest ways of moving vast sums of money anonymously: buying gold. (AP Photo/Paul White, File)

Court: Hugo Chávez’s former nurse hid gold in secret vault

By JOSHUA GOODMAN - Associated Press

Venezuelan coalition opposed to Maduro rejects upcoming vote

By SCOTT SMITH - Associated Press

FILE - This undated file photo posted on Twitter on June 18, 2020 by Venezuela's Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza, shows CITGO oil executives, from left, Jose Angel Pereira, Gustavo Cardenas, Jorge Toledo, Jose Luis Zambrano, Tomeu Vadell and Alirio Jose Zambrano, standing outside the Bolivarian National Intelligence Service, in Caracas, Venezuela. The six men, five Venezuelan-Americans, and one a permanent U.S. resident were lured to Caracas for a meeting in late 2017 at the offices of the Houston-based company's parent, state-run oil giant PDVSA when masked security agents entered a boardroom and hauled them away. (Posted on Twitter by Jorge Arreaza/Venezuela's Foreign Ministry via AP, File)

2 American oil execs jailed in Venezuela put on home arrest

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Homes cover a hill in the San Agustin neighborhood of Caracas, Venezuela, Sunday, May 17, 2020. President Nicolas Maduro is relaxing quarantine measures over the weekend by allowing children and older adults out of their homes for a few hours each day. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

Venezuela’s apparent respite from COVID-19 may not last long

By SCOTT SMITH - Associated Press

FILE - In this June 23, 2010 file photo, international lawyer Robert Amsterdam speaks during a press conference in Tokyo. On Friday, Feb. 21, 2020, Amsterdam defended the decision of Amsterdam &amp; Partners to represent Nicolas Maduro's Inspector General Reinaldo Muñoz, brushing aside calls from Florida Republican Sen. Rick Scott and others for lawyers to stay far away from Maduro’s “brutal regime.” (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi, File)

Venezuela’s Maduro taps DC firm to fight US sanctions

By JOSHUA GOODMAN - Associated Press

National Assembly President Juan Guaido swears himself in as President of the National Assembly with opposition lawmaker votes at the newspaper El Nacional's headquarters in Caracas, Venezuela, Sunday, Jan. 5, 2020. (AP Photo/Andrea Hernandez Briceño)

Maduro tightens noose around Venezuela’s opposition

By FABIOLA SANCHEZ and JOSHUA GOODMAN - Associated Press

With a mural depicting the eyes of Veneuzela's late President Hugo Chavez, Carlos Gonzales carries a bag with food delivered by the government for the poorest people in the Antimano neighborhood of Caracas, Venezuela, Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2019. Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro went on state television Tuesday to announce that he was beefing up the nation's defense by expanding Venezuela's civilian armed militia to 2 million members. The reserve force was created by the late Hugo Chavez to train civilians to assist the armed forces and defend the socialist revolution from attacks. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Venezuela opposition urges walkouts to pressure Nicola Maduro

By Scott Smith and Christine Armario - Associated Press

Mike Pence tries to strike balance on Venezuela

By Jill Colvin - Associated Press