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The stadium is partially empty during the opening winter season game between Los Leones de Caracas and Los Tigres de Aragua in Caracas, Venezuela, Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2019. A deepening crisis has left her nation in shambles, and a recent curve ball from the Trump administration has prevented big league players in the MLB from taking the field, stripping away star-power that fans have come to expect over decades. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

Crisis throws curve ball at opening of Venezuelan baseball

By JORGE RUEDA and SCOTT SMITH - Associated Press

Houston Astros' Jose Altuve flips his glove during batting practice before Game 7 of the baseball World Series against the Washington Nationals Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2019, in Houston. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

Venezuelan baseball league starts amid sanctions

By JORGE RUEDA - Associated Press

El Salvador orders expulsion of Venezuelan diplomats

By MARCOS ALEMÁN - Associated Press

Venezuela’s battle to keep prized Citgo hits US courts

By SCOTT SMITH - Associated Press

Maduro True Colors Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

‘Yes, Ana Navarro, Nicolas Maduro is a socialist’

By Jon Miltimore

FILE - In this Oct. 1, 2019 file photo, Juan Guaido, opposition leader and self-proclaimed interim president of Venezuela, attends the weekly legislative session in Caracas, Venezuela. The U.S. Treasury Department on Thursday, Oct. 24, 2019, issued an order giving Guaido’s team three months to negotiate a debt settlement. A $913 million payment due Monday could have triggered foreclosure. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos, File)

Venezuela’s opposition gets reprieve in battle to keep Citgo

By SCOTT SMITH - Associated Press

In this Oct. 8, 2019 photo, gas station attendant Leowaldo Sanchez poses with food items he was paid with by motorists: a bottle of cooking oil, a kilogram if rice and a package of corn flour, as he works at the pump in San Antonio de los Altos on the outskirts of Caracas, Venezuela. Bartering at the pump has taken off as hyperinflation makes Venezuela’s paper currency, the bolivar, hard to find and renders some denominations all but worthless, so that nobody will accept them. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

Venezuelans buy gas with cigarettes to battle inflation

By SCOTT SMITH - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sept. 30, 2019, file photo, Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro speaks during a press conference at the Foreign Ministry in Caracas, Venezuela. The Venezuelan ambassador to Japan says his bank account has become inaccessible in Japan in what he said was apparently a consequence of President Donald Trump’s decision to freeze Venezuelan assets in the United States. The Trump administration has sought to isolate Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro by prohibiting high-ranking loyalists from entering the U.S. and by freezing U.S. assets of many included in the no-entry list. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos, File)

Venezuela wins seat on UN rights body despite opposition

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

The Latest: US envoy blasts Venezuela seat on UN agency

Associated Press

In this photo taken Oct. 13, 2019, girl lies surrounded by candles and designs of white powder during a ceremony on Sorte Mountain where followers of indigenous goddess Maria Lionza gather annually in Venezuela's Yaracuy state. Believers congregated for rituals on the remote mountainside where adherents make an annual pilgrimage to pay homage to the goddess, seeking spiritual connection and physical healing. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

Venezuelans seek strength, healing from mythical goddess

Associated Press

FILE - In this Aug. 13, 2019 file photo, Guatemala's President-elect Alejandro Giammattei gives an interview in Guatemala City. Giammattei says officials have blocked him from entering Venezuela on Saturday, Oct. 12, 2019, where he planned to meet opposition politician Juan Guaido, a foe of socialist leader Nicolas Maduro. (AP Photo/Oliver de Ros, File)

Venezuela denies entry of Guatemala’s president-elect

By FABIOLA SÁNCHEZ and CAMILLE RODRÍGUEZ MONTILLA - Associated Press

US hopes to keep Venezuela off UN Human Rights Council

Associated Press

Oil-covered fishermen carry home the truck tire inner tubes they use to float on in Lake Maracaibo in Cabimas, Venezuela, July 12, 2019. Venezuelan fishermen are the ones more at risk from persistent long-term exposure to the oil in Lake Maracaibo, compared to the consumers occasionally exposed to the oil-soaked seafood, according to Cornelis Elferink, a professor of pharmacology and toxicology at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Fishermen live in stain of Venezuela’s broken oil industry

By SCOTT SMITH - Associated Press

Venezuela’s gas shortages stall ambulances in their tracks

By LUZ DARY DEPABLOS and SCOTT SMITH - Associated Press

Adobe cuts off Venezuela clients, citing US sanctions

Associated Press

Backdropped by a painting of independence leader Simon Bolivar, Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro gives a press conference at the Foreign Ministry in Caracas, Venezuela, Monday, Sept. 30, 2019. Maduro denied the accusation by the Colombian president that the guerrilla group ELN was operating with the Venezuelan government's support inside Venezuelan territory, answered questions about his recent trip to Russia and about a possible return to the negotiation table with the opposition. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

Venezuela asks UN to say US can’t invoke treaty to use force

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

A man carries a load on his back as he works as a “lomo taxista,” or taxi of the lower back, outside a bus terminal in San Antonio, Venezuela, Thursday, Sept. 19, 2019. Many who have little money to migrate, or prefer to stay closer to home, are settling in border towns like San Antonio, where the informal economy of black market goods and street vending provide them with some work opportunities. (AP Photo/Rafael Urdaneta)

Venezuelan border town swells with internal migrants

By LUZ DARY DEPABLOS and MANUEL RUEDA - Associated Press

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Support CITGO investors

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Illustration on Bernie Sanders and Socialism by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

On Venezuela, Bernie Sanders has a lot more explaining to do

By Jose Nino and Reed Cooley

Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, shakes hands with Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro during their meeting in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Sept. 25, 2019. Nicolas Maduro is on a working visit to Moscow. (Sergei Chirikov/Pool Photo via AP)

EU slaps sanctions on 7 more in Venezuela over rights abuses

By LORNE COOK - Associated Press