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Venezuela's Salvador Perez celebrates after a home-run during a World Baseball Classic game against Italy, in Guadalajara, Mexico, Saturday, March 11, 2017. All-Star catcher Perez injured his left knee in a home-plate collision with his Kansas City Royals backup Drew Butera in a World Baseball Classic game. Venezuela rallied to beat Italy 11-10 on Martin Prado's 10th-inning double after Butera stumbled into Perez to end the ninth with the score tied at 10.(AP Photo/Luis Gutierrez)

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Venezuela's Salvador Perez is helped after being injured during a World Baseball Classic game against Italy, in Guadalajara, Mexico, Saturday, March 11, 2017. All-Star catcher Perez injured his left knee in a home-plate collision with his Kansas City Royals backup Drew Butera in a World Baseball Classic game. Venezuela rallied to beat Italy 11-10 on Martin Prado's 10th-inning double after Butera stumbled into Perez to end the ninth with the score tied at 10.(AP Photo/Luis Gutierrez)

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Italy's Drew Butera collides with Venezuela's Salvador Perez during a World Baseball Classic game in Guadalajara, Mexico, Saturday, March 11, 2017. All-Star catcher Perez injured his left knee in a home-plate collision with his Kansas City Royals backup Drew Butera in a World Baseball Classic game. Venezuela rallied to beat Italy 11-10 on Martin Prado's 10th-inning double after Butera stumbled into Perez to end the ninth with the score tied at 10.(AP Photo/Luis Gutierrez)

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Venezuela's Salvador Perez is helped after being injured during World Baseball Classic game against Italy, in Guadalajara, Mexico, Saturday, March 11, 2017. All-Star catcher Perez injured his left knee in a home-plate collision with his Kansas City Royals backup Drew Butera in a World Baseball Classic game. Venezuela rallied to beat Italy 11-10 on Martin Prado's 10th-inning double after Butera stumbled into Perez to end the ninth with the score tied at 10.(AP Photo/Luis Gutierrez)

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Venezuela's Miguel Cabrera follows through on a solo home run during a spring training baseball game against the Kansas City Royals, Wednesday, March 8, 2017 in Surprise, Ariz. (John Sleezer/The Kansas City Star via AP)

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Venezuela's Jose Altuve bats against the Kansas City Royals during a spring training baseball game Wednesday, March 8, 2017, in Surprise, Ariz. (John Sleezer/The Kansas City Star via AP)

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Venezuela center fielder Ender Inciarte, left, is congratulated by second baseman Jose Altuve after Inciarte made a diving catch for an out on Kansas City Royals' Raul Mondesi to end the fourth inning during a spring training baseball game, Wednesday, March 8, 2017, in Surprise, Ariz. (John Sleezer/The Kansas City Star via AP)

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Venezuela's Miguel Cabrera rounds the bases on a solo home run during a spring training baseball game against the Kansas City Royals, Wednesday, March 8, 2017, in Surprise, Ariz. (John Sleezer/The Kansas City Star via AP)

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FILE - In this Feb. 6, 2017 file photo, Venezuela's Foreign Minister Delcy Rodriguez attends a news conference in Moscow, Russia. Venezuela suspended CNN in Spanish on Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2017, shutting off the news channel a few hours after officials angrily criticized a report saying government workers engaged in selling fraudulent passports. Rodriguez said President Nicolas Maduro's government had requested that authorities take action against CNN in Spanish because of the "damage" it caused Venezuela. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin, File)

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FILE - In this July 30, 2016, file photo, Laurie Holt, the mother of Joshua Holt, an American jailed in Venezuela, cries during a rally at the Utah State Capitol, in Salt Lake City. Holt is issuing another tearful plea for help, this time to President Donald Trump. Holt's said in her new YouTube video that her son Joshua Holt did nothing wrong and is being used as "political pawn" by Venezuela's government. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

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FILE - In this July 13, 2016, file photo, Laurie Holt holds a photograph of her son Joshua Holt, who has been jailed in Venezuela for several months, at her home, in Riverton, Utah. Laurie issuing another tearful plea for help, this time to President Donald Trump. She said in her new YouTube video that her son Joshua = did nothing wrong and is being used as "political pawn" by Venezuela's government. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

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FILE - In this Nov. 1, 2016 file photo, new government cargo trucks used to transport imported food wait outside the entrance of the Laramar warehouse in Puerto Cabello, Venezuela, the port city where the majority of Venezuela's imported food arrives. The calls by members of Congress on both sides of the aisle to sanction Venezuelan officials for profiting from food shortages come in response to an Associated Press investigation that found trafficking in hard-to-find food has become big business in Venezuela, with the military at the heart of the graft. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos, File)

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FILE - In this Nov. 14, 2016 file photo, a youth uses his pillow as a bag to collect rice from the pavement that shook loose from a food cargo truck waiting to enter the port in Puerto Cabello, Venezuela, the port that handles the majority of Venezuela's food imports. The calls by members of Congress on both sides of the aisle to sanction Venezuelan officials for profiting from food shortages come in response to an Associated Press investigation that found trafficking in hard-to-find food has become big business in Venezuela, with the military at the heart of the graft. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos, File)

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People wait outside a supermarket to buy government subsided food in Caracas, Venezuela. As domestic production dries up in Venezuela, the state has given itself the role of importing nearly all the country's food. (Associated Press)

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In this Nov. 18, 2016 photo, people wait outside a supermarket to buy government subsided food in Caracas, Venezuela. As domestic production dries up in Venezuela, the state has given itself the role of importing nearly all the country's food. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

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Supporters of Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro show their support during a political rally against Congress in Caracas, Venezuela, Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2016. After the government suspended a recall referendum seeking President Nicolas Maduro's removal last week, the opposition-controlled congress began debating his "constitutional situation." Lawmakers vow to present evidence that Maduro is a dual Colombian citizen and therefore constitutionally ineligible to hold Venezuela's highest office. (AP Photo/Alejandro Cegarra)

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Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro speaks during a political rally against the Congress in Caracas, Venezuela, Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2016. After the government suspended a recall referendum seeking Maduro's removal last week, the opposition-controlled congress began debating his "constitutional situation." Lawmakers vow to present evidence that Maduro a dual Colombian citizen and therefore constitutionally ineligible to hold Venezuela's highest office. (AP Photo/Alejandro Cegarra)

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ADVANCE FOR USE TUESDAY, OCT. 4, 2016 AND THEREAFTER - In this Aug. 11, 2016 photo, 3-year-old Ashely Pacheco rests with her father Maykol Pacheco in her hospital bed at the University Hospital in Caracas, Venezuela. Two weeks after 3-year-old Ashley scraped her knee, she was screaming in a hospital, fighting for her life as her family scoured Caracas for scarce antibiotics. Venezuela is running short on 85 percent of basic medicines. As the health care system collapses, the tiniest slips, like a little girl’s tumble while chasing her brother, are turning into life-or-death crises.(AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

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Illustration on Venezuela's descent in to chaos under socialism by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

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Venezuelan Foreign Minister Delcy Rodriguez scolded her fellow representatives in an angry, 30-minute address.