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FILE - In this March 12, 2020, file photo, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro speaks at a press conference at the Miraflores Presidential Palace in Caracas, Venezuela. The Trump administration will announce Thursday, March 26, 2020, indictments against Maduro and members of his inner circle for effectively converting Venezuela's state into a criminal enterprise at the service of drug traffickers and terrorist groups, according to multiple people familiar with the situation. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix, File)

US outlines plan for Venezuela transition, sanctions relief

By JOSHUA GOODMAN - Associated Press

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, accompanied by State Department spokeswoman Morgan Ortagus, left, arrives to speak at a news conference, Tuesday, March 31, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, Pool)

Mike Pompeo outlines blueprint for democratic ‘transition’ in Venezuela

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Opposition political leader Juan Guaido greets supporters during a march before it was blocked by police in Caracas, Venezuela, Tuesday, March 10, 2020. Guaido called for the march aimed at retaking the National Assembly legislative building, which opposition lawmakers have been blocked from entering. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

Guaido urges unity government backed by loans to fight virus

By JOSHUA GOODMAN - Associated Press

FILE - In this Aug. 27, 2018 file photo, Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, listens to Russian Rosneft CEO Igor Sechin during his flight to visit Chernigovets coal mine, in Beryozovsky, Kemerovo region, Russia. On Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2020, the Treasury Department slapped sanctions on Rosneft’s trading arm and its CEO, accusing the Geneva-based firm of providing a critical lifeline to Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro. (Alexei Druzhinin, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)

Rosneft hands Venezuelan oil business to Russian state firm

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV and JOSHUA GOODMAN - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 12, 2020, file photo, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro speaks at a press conference at the Miraflores Presidential Palace in Caracas, Venezuela. The Trump administration will announce Thursday, March 26, 2020, indictments against Maduro and members of his inner circle for effectively converting Venezuela's state into a criminal enterprise at the service of drug traffickers and terrorist groups, according to multiple people familiar with the situation. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix, File)

A defiant Maduro threatens ‘cowboy’ Trump after drug charge

By JOSHUA GOODMAN and SCOTT SMITH - Associated Press

FILE - In this Oct. 28, 2008 file photo, a man walks past a satellite dish station in El Sombrero, Venezuela. Venezuela’s only telecommunications satellite has veered off its orbit and stopped working, according to a government statement on March 26, 2020. (AP Photo/Howard Yanes, File)

Venezuela’s only telecoms satellite is lost in space

By MANUEL RUEDA - Associated Press

A man wearing a face mask as a precaution amid the spread of the new coronavirus passes a mural that in Spanish reads &quot; No more Trump&quot; in Caracas, Venezuela, Friday, March 27, 2020. The U.S. Justice Department has charged in several indictments against Maduro and his inner circle, made public on Thursday, that the leader has effectively converted Venezuela into a criminal enterprise at the service of drug traffickers and terrorist groups as he and his allies stole billions from the South American country. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

AP Explains: US indicts Venezuela’s Maduro as narcoterrorist

By SCOTT SMITH - Associated Press

In this March 12, 2020, file photo, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro speaks at a press conference at the Miraflores Presidential Palace in Caracas, Venezuela. The Trump administration will announce Thursday, March 26, 2020, indictments against Maduro and members of his inner circle for effectively converting Venezuela's state into a criminal enterprise at the service of drug traffickers and terrorist groups, according to multiple people familiar with the situation. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix, File) **FILE**

Trump administration charges Venezuela President Maduro with drug trafficking

By Lauren Toms, Jeff Mordock and Lauren Meier - The Washington Times

FILE - In this March 12, 2020, file photo, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro speaks at a press conference at the Miraflores Presidential Palace in Caracas, Venezuela. The Trump administration will announce Thursday, March 26, 2020, indictments against Maduro and members of his inner circle for effectively converting Venezuela's state into a criminal enterprise at the service of drug traffickers and terrorist groups, according to multiple people familiar with the situation. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix, File)

US indicts Venezuela’s Maduro on narcoterrorism charges

By JOSHUA GOODMAN and SCOTT SMITH - Associated Press

People wearing protective masks as a precaution against the spread of the new coronavirus travel on a bus in Caracas, Venezuela, Tuesday, March 17, 2020. President Nicolas Maduro ordered citizens to stay home, and to wear a mask in public under a quarantine in a bid to control the spread of the coronavirus. The vast majority of people recover from the new virus. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

IMF rejects Maduro’s bid for emergency loan to fight virus

By JOSHUA GOODMAN - Associated Press

A boy, wearing a protective mask as a precaution against the spread of the new coronavirus, stands outside a store waiting his mother to finish shopping, in Caracas, Venezuela, Friday, March 13, 2020. Venezuela's Vice President Delcy Rodriguez confirmed Friday the first two cases of the new coronavirus in the South American country. The vast majority of people recover from the new virus. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

Venezuela, already in crisis, reports 1st coronavirus cases

By SCOTT SMITH and FABIOLA SÁNCHEZ - Associated Press

In this Feb. 28, 2020 photo, Venezuelan Kamal Morales discusses the plight of his Venezuelan boyfriend Gustavo Acosta during an interview in New York. Morales' boyfriend has spent the past year moving around U.S. immigrant detention centers in the deep south after they crossed the Mexico-U.S. border together to apply for asylum. Morales’ own asylum request was rejected and he was ordered deported, but is currently living in New York while on parole. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

Fleeing Maduro, Venezuelans find nightmare in Trump’s jails

By JOSHUA GOODMAN and GISELA SALOMON - Associated Press

A protester carries sign with the Spanish message &quot;Going hungry&quot; during an opposition march in Caracas, Venezuela, Tuesday, March 10, 2020. U.S.-backed Venezuelan political leader Juan Guaido led the march aimed at retaking the National Assembly legislative building, which opposition lawmakers have been blocked from entering, but the march was blocked by police early in its route. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

Opposition’s street protests losing appeal in Venezuela

By JORGE RUEDA and SCOTT SMITH - Associated Press

A member of the opposition holds up her handcuffed hands as she joins the start of a rally in Caracas, Venezuela, Tuesday, March 10, 2020. Her signs read in Spanish &quot;No fear,&quot; and &quot;Diosdado assassin,&quot; referring to ruling party politician Diosdado Cabello. U.S.-backed Venezuelan political leader Juan Guaido will lead a march aimed at retaking the National Assembly legislative building, which opposition lawmakers have been blocked from entering. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

Venezuelan riot police drive off protesters with tear gas

By SCOTT SMITH - Associated Press

In this photo released by the Juan Guaido's Press Office, an unidentified man aims a gun at a crowd as opposition leader Juan Guaido, center right in light blue shirt, meets with supporters during a rally in Barquisimeto, Venezuela, Saturday, Feb. 29, 2020. (Juan Guaido Press Office via AP)

Socialist hardliner aims gun on Guaidó march in Venezuela

Associated Press

In this Feb. 27, 2020 photo, Orlando Blanco, 68, waits for food to be served at a religion center in the slum called The Cemetery in Caracas, Venezuela. In the midst of a severe crisis, families in Venezuela struggle to consume enough food daily. A recent study by the UN World Food Program reveals that one in three residents of the South American country has difficulty bringing food to the table and fails to meet their basic nutritional requirements. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

Many Venezuelans struggle to put food on the table in crisis

By JORGE RUEDA and SCOTT SMITH - Associated Press

Opposition leader Juan Guaido gestures during an interview with the Associated Press in Caracas, Venezuela, Friday, Feb. 21, 2020. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

AP Interview: Venezuela’s Guaidó extols Trump alliance

By SCOTT SMITH and FABIOLA SÁNCHEZ - Associated Press

Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne speaks during the closing news conference at the Lima Group Ministerial meetings in Gatineau, Quebec, Thursday, Feb. 20, 2020. (Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press via AP)

Lima Group urges world to help bring stability to Venezuela

Associated Press

Fabiana Rosales, the wife of opposition leader Juan Guaido, arrives to the building where the family of her husband's uncle Juan Jose Marquez lives in Caracas, Venezuela, Thursday, Feb. 20, 2020. Guaido says military police raided the home of his uncle early Thursday, a week after he was arrested on suspicion of bringing explosives into Venezuela on the same flight as Guaido. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

Venezuelan police search home of detained uncle of Guaidó

By SCOTT SMITH - Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 15, 2019 file photo, Dennysse Vadell sits between her daughters Veronica, right, and Cristina holding a digital photograph of father and husband Tomeu who is currently jailed in Venezuela with five other executives from Houston-based Citgo, in Katy, Texas, Friday. According to a family member of one of the other arrested men, they were rounded up while under house arrest in Venezuela on Feb. 5, 2020 by SEBIN intelligence police hours after President Donald Trump met Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro's chief opponent at the White House. (AP Photo/John L Mone, File, File)

Maduro accused of “disappearing” US oilmen as trial delayed

By JOSHUA GOODMAN - Associated Press