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In this March 12, 2020, photo, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro speaks at the Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas, Venezuela. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix) **FILE**

Maduro security forces committed humanitarian crimes in Venezuela: U.N. council

By Lauren Toms - The Washington Times

FILE - In this March 12, 2020 file photo, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro gives a press conference at Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas, Venezuela. Independent experts commissioned by the U.N.’s top human rights body have issued a scathing, in-depth report finding the government of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro responsible for crimes against humanity. The report commissioned last year by the 47-member-state Human Rights Council said the alleged crimes include extrajudicial executions, enforced disappearances, arbitrary detentions and torture. The findings issued Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2020 were based on nearly 3,000 cases, interviews and other evidence. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix, File)

US denies sending American accused of spying in Venezuela

By SCOTT SMITH - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 12, 2020 file photo, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro gives a press conference at Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas, Venezuela. Independent experts commissioned by the U.N.’s top human rights body have issued a scathing, in-depth report finding the government of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro responsible for crimes against humanity. The report commissioned last year by the 47-member-state Human Rights Council said the alleged crimes include extrajudicial executions, enforced disappearances, arbitrary detentions and torture. The findings issued Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2020 were based on nearly 3,000 cases, interviews and other evidence. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix, File)

Experts cite ‘crimes against humanity’ in Maduro’s Venezuela

By JAMEY KEATEN - Associated Press

Venezuela's Attorney General Tarek William Saab holds a photo of bullets he says were seized with other weapons in connection with what the government calls a failed attack over the weekend aimed at overthrowing President Nicolás Maduro, during a press conference in Caracas, Venezuela, Friday, May 8, 2020. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

Venezuela: captured US spy charged in alleged terrorist plot

By SCOTT SMITH - Associated Press

Colombia targets ex US Green Beret behind anti-Maduro plot

By JOSHUA GOODMAN - Associated Press

This satellite image released by Maxar Technologies shows the FSO Nabarima oil tanker off the coast of Trinidad and Tobago, Sunday, Aug. 9, 2020. The oil tanker listing off a remote Venezuelan coastline is triggering international calls for action. Critics of President Nicolas Maduro and maritime experts say the FSO Nabarima is taking on water and could sink. (Maxar Technologies via AP)

Damaged Venezuelan oil tanker drawing international concern

By JOSHUA GOODMAN and SCOTT SMITH - Associated Press

FILE - In this July 30, 2018 file photo, Venezuela's opposition leader Henrique Capriles speaks during an interview at his office in Caracas, Venezuela. Capriles broke on Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2020, with U.S.-backed leader Juan Guaido, whose coalition has vowed to boycott the crisis-torn nation's upcoming congressional elections claiming they're rigged. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano, File)

Venezuela opposition politician breaks with US-backed Guaidó

By SCOTT SMITH - Associated Press

In this March 12, 2020, photo, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro speaks at the Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas, Venezuela. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix) **FILE**

Washington says pardons by Venezuela’s Maduro are token acts

By SCOTT SMITH - Associated Press

A doctor takes a blood sample for a quick COVID-19 test from a handcuffed inmate at a comprehensive diagnosis center that set up to attend patients with new coronavirus in Caracas, Venezuela, Thursday, Aug 27, 2020. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

Human Rights Watch: Venezuela using COVID-19 to crack down

Associated Press

FILE - In this June 11, 2014 file photo, Venezuela's Rafael Ramirez, Minister of Popular Power of Petroleum and Mining, speaks to journalists prior to the start of an OPEC, at their headquarters in Vienna, Austria. Houston energy firm Harvest Natural Resources has dropped a lawsuit on Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2020, against Venezuela's former oil czar, who it had accused of orchestrating demands for a $10 million bribe to approve an asset sale in the South American country. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak, File)

Houston firm drops bribe suit against ex Venezuela oil czar

By JOSHUA GOODMAN - 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

FILE - In this Dec. 3, 2018 file photo, Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan give a thumbs up as he embraces Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro during a ceremony at Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas, Venezuela, Monday, Dec. 3, 2018. The personal relationship between the leaders is warm, partly forged by mutual support during domestic attempts to force them from power. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos, File)

Tension with Washington helps fuel Turkey-Venezuela alliance

By CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA - Associated Press

Iran: Fuel en route to Venezuela seized by US wasn’t Iranian

Associated Press

A man wearing a face mask amid the COVID-19 pandemic passes a mural of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, July 22, 2020. Analysts say that in recent months the pandemic has helped suck away the opposition’s scanty momentum and bolster Maduro’s already strong hand. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

US prosecutor in Miami targeting Venezuela graft is leaving

By JOSHUA GOODMAN - Associated Press

Venezuelan rebels sentenced to prison in failed beach attack

By SCOTT SMITH and FABIOLA SÁNCHEZ - Associated Press

FILE - In this May 25, 2020 file photo, the Iranian oil tanker Fortune is anchored at the dock of the El Palito refinery near Puerto Cabello, Venezuela. U.S. officials said Thursday, Aug. 13, 2020, that the Trump administration has seized the cargo of four tankers it was targeting for transporting Iranian fuel to Venezuela as it steps up its campaign of maximum pressure against the two heavily sanctioned. (AP Photo/Ernesto Vargas, File)

Officials: U.S. seizes Iranian gas heading for Venezuela

By JOSHUA GOODMAN - Associated Press

Oil spill in Venezuela stains treasured Caribbean beaches

Associated Press

Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido speaks upon his arrival to the headquarters of Democratic Action political party in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, June 17, 2020, the day after Venezuela's Supreme Court ordered its takeover ahead of parliamentary elections expected this year. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix) **FILE**

Trump administration to keep backing Juan Guaido regardless of outcome of Venezuela’s next election

By Lauren Toms - The Washington Times