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FILE - In this Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2005 file photo, a supersonic Tu-160 strategic bomber with Russian President Vladimir Putin aboard flies above an airfield near the northern city of Murmansk. The Russian military says two of its nuclear-capable strategic bombers have arrived in Venezuela, a deployment that comes amid soaring Russia-U.S. tensions. (Alexei Panov, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)

Russia sends 2 nuclear-capable bombers to Venezuela

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV - Associated Press

Goodyear halts tire production in Venezuela as economy slips

By JUAN CARLOS HERNANDEZ - Associated Press

In this Dec. 5, 2018 photo, people are familiarized with the ballot for local elections during a campaign event by Fernando Melena, who is running to retain his council seat in the eastern district of El Hatillo, just outside Caracas, Venezuela. The elections have been overshadowed by the brutal economic crisis overwhelming the South American country, driving masses abroad in search of a better life. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

Apathy high as Venezuela holds weekend local elections

By FABIOLA SANCHEZ - Associated Press

FILE - In this May 25, 2017, file photo, Los Angeles Angels third baseman Luis Valbuena throws out Tampa Bay Rays' Kevin Kiermaier on a sacrifice bunt during the fifth inning of a baseball game in St. Petersburg, Fla. Major League Baseball players Luis Valbuena and Jose Castillo have been killed in a car crash in Venezuela. MLB tweeted late Thursday, Dec. 6, 2018, the 33-year-old Valbuena and 37-year-old Castillo died. Both were playing for Cardenales de Lara in the Venezuelan league. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara, File)

Ex-major leaguers Valbuena, Castillo die in Venezuela crash

By FABIOLA SANCHEZ - Associated Press

Venezuela’s president boosts wages, compares Trump to Hitler

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Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro speaks during a press conference at the Miraflores Presidential Palace, in Caracas, Venezuela, Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2018. Venezuela and China have agreed to joint investments Maduro announced on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

Nicolas Maduro likens Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler

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In this Aug. 26, 2018 photo, Roberto Patino greets children at a children's center in the La Vega neighborhood of Caracas, Venezuela. Patino, a rising star in Venezuela's unravelling opposition movement, and other grassroots organizers in their 20s and 30s have been feeding children, encouraging women to become community activists and organizing protests to demand public services like reliable drinking water and electricity. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

Venezuela’s next generation of opposition plays a long game

By SCOTT SMITH - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sept. 8, 2008 file photo, traffic on I-95 passes Citgo oil storage tanks in Linden, N.J. Venezuela will hold onto its U.S.-based Citgo refineries, settling in Nov. 2018 a dispute that threw ownership of the struggling country’s prized assets into peril. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

Venezuela holds onto prized US refineries amid legal battle

By SCOTT SMITH - Associated Press

Spanish court allows extradition of ex-Chavez bodyguard

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FILE - In this June 11, 2012 file photo, Venezuela's former Foreign Minister Ali Rodriguez delivers a speech as he takes office as secretary general of the Union of South American Nations, UNASUR at the Presidential Palace in Bogota, Colombia. Venezuelan state TV said Monday, Nov. 19, 2018, that Rodriguez passed away in Havana. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara, File)

Venezuelan ambassador to Cuba Ali Rodriguez dies

By JORGE RUEDA - Associated Press

In this Nov. 8, 2018 photo, Venezuelan born Andrea Diaz, Miss Chile, takes part in a runway class in Santiago, Chile, Thursday, Nov. 8, 2018. &quot;I represent the new Chile,&quot; the 26-year-old said as she was training at a local gym in Santiago for the upcoming competition. &quot;This is an inclusive country where immigrants come in search of opportunities.&quot; (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

Venezuelan beauty queens migrate for shot at stardom abroad

By MANUEL RUEDA and EVA VERGARA - Associated Press

Members of a military agency that transports valuables remove gold bars from a military plane to be taken to Venezuela's Central Bank, at the Carlota military airport in Caracas, Venezuela, Thursday, March 1, 2018. Since January, Venezuela's central bank has accumulated 3.7 tons of gold from the Orinoco mining belt in southern Bolivar state, which is almost half of the 8.5 tons dispatched in all of 2017.&#160;(AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

Nicolas Maduro, Venezuela gold targeted by Donald Trump

By Dan Boylan - The Washington Times

Venezuelan migrants speak to the press as they arrive to a new, refugee-style camp set up by the government in Bogota, Colombia, Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2018. Officials were initially reluctant to open camps for homeless Venezuelan arrivals but now say they have no choice as the number fleeing their nation’s economic and humanitarian crisis continues to rapidly escalate. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

Colombia opens camp for Venezuela migrants as exodus swells

By CHRISTINE ARMARIO - Associated Press

UN says there are 3 million Venezuelan refugees and migrants

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Venezuelan defense minister: Border ambush kills 3 soldiers

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United States National Security Adviser John Bolton talks to the Miami Herald on Latin American policy at the National Historic Landmark Miami Freedom Tower on Thursday, November 1, 2018. (Emily Michot/Miami Herald via AP)

US vows tough approach to Venezuela, Nicaragua and Cuba

By LUIS ALONSO LUGO and GISELA SALOMON - Associated Press

In this Oct. 24, 2018 photo, a Venezuelan male red siskin takes flight in Vargas, Venezuela. The finch-like red siskin is vanishing from the wild at an alarming rate, falling prey to a century of shrinking forests and poachers cashing in on their brilliant red feathers, prized around the world by breeders of exotic birds. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

Venezuela’s vanishing red bird gets a coffee pick-me-up

By FABIOLA SANCHEZ - Associated Press

Brazil's President-elect Jair Bolsonaro waves at supporters as he arrives to watch an aerial performance by the private pilots' group “Esquadrilha do Ceu&quot; or “Sky Squadron&quot;, at Barra beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2018. Bolsonaro appeared in public Tuesday for the first time as president-elect. He visited a church led by ultraconservative pastor Silas Malafaia and spoke briefly to the faithful on stage. &quot;I am sure that I am not the most capable, but God capacitates the chosen ones,&quot; he said. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Radical plans, risks in foreign policy of Brazil’s Bolsonaro

By MAURICIO SAVARESE - Associated Press

Spanish court agrees to extradition of Hugo Chavez’s aide

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FILE - In this Sept. 18, 2018 file photo, Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro speaks during a press conference at the Miraflores Presidential Palace, in Caracas, Venezuela. Prosecutors said Thursday, Oct. 18, that people linked to the Venezuelan government and Mexican companies conspired to overcharge Venezuela for basic food aid packages. President Maduro began distributing subsidized food as his nation fell deeper into political and economic turmoil, but critics say Maduro has essentially weaponized food, distributing the boxes primarily to government workers and supporters. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos, File)

US official: Maduro ‘looting’ Venezuela’s gold amid crisis

By LUIS ALONSO LUGO - Associated Press