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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

FILE - In this Sept. 23, 2019, file photo, Julio Borges, a Venezuelan opposition leader, participates in a meeting organized by the Organization of American States to discuss sanctions on Venezuela in New York. Borges, a former Venezuelan lawmaker is now exiled in Colombia. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File)

At UN, Venezuela’s rival delegations circle each other

By ALEXANDRA OLSON - Associated Press

Maduro: Trump ‘obsession’ with Venezuela about impeachment

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In this Feb. 14, 2019, file photo, Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro speaks during an interview with The Associated Press at Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas, Venezuela. Maduro ordered on Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2019, Venezuela's military to hold exercises along the border with Colombia, accusing the neighboring nation's president of plotting an attack as tensions mount between the two South American countries. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos, File)

Donald Trump decries ‘tragedy of historic proportions’ in Venezuela

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

President Donald Trump speaks during a multilateral meeting on Venezuela at the InterContinental New York Barclay hotel during the United Nations General Assembly, Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2019, in New York. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump bars high-ranking Maduro loyalists from entry to US

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In this Feb. 19, 2019 photo, the bones of an animal lie on a rock during a scientific mission to study how temperatures and plant life are changing in the Andean ecosystem known as the paramos _ a mist-covered mountain grassland that lies between the top of the treeline and the bottom of the Humboldt glacier, in Merida, Venezuela. A team of scientists in Venezuela is trying to weather the political and economic crisis engulfing their country to record what happens as Venezuela's last glacier vanishes. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Hardy scientists trek to Venezuela’s last glacier amid chaos

By CHRISTINA LARSON and FEDERICA NARANCIO - Associated Press

President Donald Trump listens during the the United Nations Climate Action Summit during the General Assembly, Monday, Sept. 23, 2019, in New York. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump attacks globalism and urges action on Iran at UN

By JONATHAN LEMIRE and DEB RIECHMANN and MATTHEW LEE - Associated Press

In this Feb. 14, 2019, file photo, Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro speaks during an interview with The Associated Press at Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas, Venezuela. Maduro ordered on Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2019, Venezuela's military to hold exercises along the border with Colombia, accusing the neighboring nation's president of plotting an attack as tensions mount between the two South American countries. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos, File)

Europe turning into ‘resort’ for Venezuela regime officials, U.S. official says

By Lauren Toms - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Sept. 17, 2019, file photo, Venezuelan opposition leader and self-proclaimed interim president of Venezuela Juan Guaido walks with lawmaker Delsa Solorzano after the weekly session at the National Assembly in Caracas, Venezuela. The Trump administration is more than tripling U.S. support for pro-democracy work in Venezuela and for the first time will give funds to Guaido as he attempts to set up an interim government. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos, File)

Trump administration to triple democracy aid to Venezuela

By JOSHUA GOODMAN - Associated Press

In this Sept. 17, 2019, photo, Carlos Vecchio, an exiled politician who the U.S. recognizes as Venezuela’s ambassador, points to a blank section of a wall where artwork once hung inside the Ambassador's residence in Washington. U.S. officials are investigating the possible looting from Venezuela of valuable European and Latin American artwork they believe is being quietly plundered by government insiders as Nicolas Maduro struggles to keep a grip on power. “This is just the tip of the iceberg,” Vecchio said. “If this is what they’ve managed to do with some artwork at a single diplomatic mission, you can imagine what they’ve done inside Venezuela.” (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

AP Exclusive: US helping Venezuela’s Guaido track stolen art

By JOSHUA GOODMAN - Associated Press

Venezuelan opposition leader and self-proclaimed interim president of Venezuela Juan Guaido speaks during a weekly session at the National Assembly in Caracas, Venezuela, Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2019. Venezuela’s opposition-led congress has again thrown its support behind Guaidó, saying he’ll serve as the crisis-wracked nation’s interim president until they’ve ended Nicolás Maduro’s grip on power. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

US, Latin America allies to weigh sanctions on Venezuela

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Venezuela's National Assembly President and self-proclaimed interim President Juan Guaido speaks to the press in Caracas, Venezuela, Monday, Sept. 16, 2019. A group of minority opposition parties in Venezuela agreed Monday to enter negotiations with President Nicolas Maduro's government without the consent of the U.S.-backed opposition leader. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

US, Venezuela opposition majority renew support for Guaidó

By FABIOLA SÁNCHEZ and SCOTT SMITH - Associated Press

In this Feb. 14, 2019, file photo, Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro speaks during an interview with The Associated Press at Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas, Venezuela. Maduro ordered on Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2019, Venezuela's military to hold exercises along the border with Colombia, accusing the neighboring nation's president of plotting an attack as tensions mount between the two South American countries. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos, File)

Split emerges in Venezuela opposition over talks with gov’t

By SCOTT SMITH - Associated Press

Venezuelan Opposition leader and self-proclaimed interim president of Venezuela Juan Guaido sits during a weekly session at the National Assembly in Caracas, Venezuela, Tuesday, Sept 10, 2019. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos

Venezuela’s Guaidó refutes allegations of paramilitary ties

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Venezuela’s Maduro says he won’t attend UN annual meeting

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Retired Maj. Gen. Hugo Carvajal speaks during an extradition hearing at the National Court in Madrid, Spain, Thursday Sept. 12, 2019. Venezuela's former military spy chief has told a Spanish court that he won’t waive extradition to the U.S. to face drug trafficking and other charges. Carvajal was a crony of Hugo Chavez who turned against the former Venezuelan president's successor, Nicolas Maduro. (Emilio Naranjo/Pool photo via AP)

Ex-Venezuelan spymaster won’t waive extradition to US

By ARITZ PARRA - Associated Press

FILE - In this Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2016 file photo, United Socialist Party of Venezuela lawmaker Hugo Carvajal speaks during an interview at the National Assembly administrative offices, in Caracas, Venezuela. Carvajal, Venezuela's longtime spy chief was arrested Friday, April 12, 2019 in Madrid by Spanish police acting on a United States warrant for the alleged trafficking of tons of cocaine. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano, File)

The rise and fall of former Venezuelan spymaster ‘El Pollo’

By ARITZ PARRA and JOSHUA GOODMAN - Associated Press

In this April 18, 2018, photo, National security adviser John Bolton, left, listens to President Donald Trump, far right, speak during a working lunch with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at Trump' s private Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Fla. Also at the meeting are from left, White House chief economic adviser Larry Kudlow, third left, and Vice President Mike Pence, second left. Trump has fired national security adviser John Bolton. Trump tweeted Tuesday that he told Bolton Monday night that his services were no longer needed at the White House. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) **FILE**

Venezuela’s socialist govt happy over removal of John Bolton

By JOSHUA GOODMAN - Associated Press

In this Feb. 14, 2019, file photo, Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro speaks during an interview with The Associated Press at Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas, Venezuela. Maduro ordered on Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2019, Venezuela's military to hold exercises along the border with Colombia, accusing the neighboring nation's president of plotting an attack as tensions mount between the two South American countries. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos, File)

Venezuela starts military exercises along Colombia border

By SCOTT SMITH and LUIS ALONSO LUGO - Associated Press

U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, attends the opening of 42nd session of the Human Rights Council at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Monday, Sept. 9, 2019. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP)

UN human rights chief cites continued abuses in Venezuela

By SCOTT SMITH - Associated Press