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In this May 6, 2017 photo, holding up his violin, Wuilly Arteaga shouts during an anti-government march in Caracas, Venezuela. Arteaga has become a symbol of peaceful protest largely overshadowed by frequent clashes between rock-throwing youths and heavily armed security forces. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

Amid tear gas, Venezuela violinist symbolizes hope for peace

By FABIOLA SANCHEZ - Associated Press

Venezuela's defender José Manuel Velázquez (6) scores against United States goalkeeper Tim Howard (1) in the first half during an international friendly match Saturday, June 3, 2017, in Sandy, Utah. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

Pulisic goal gives US 1-1 tie vs Venezuela in exhibition

By JOHN COON - Associated Press

Johnson, Yedlin, Wood return to US lineup vs Venezuela

By JOHN COON - Associated Press

In this May 24, 2017 photo, demonstrators yell to passing cars outside a gated community where an alleged front man of prominent Chavista Gov. Gregorio Vielma Mora is believed to live with his beauty queen wife, in a Miami suburb known as Little Venezuela, in Doral, Florida. The increasingly popular tactic of public heckling is making it harder for those loyal to the late President Hugo Chavez and his successor Nicolas Maduro to enjoy the good life outside Venezuela while an increasingly violent power struggle plays out back home. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

Venezuela socialists met shaming, protests on trips abroad

By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON and JOSHUA GOODMAN - Associated Press

Product of Venezuela Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Venezuela is a human rights disaster

By Stephen Moore

Demonstrators hold candles during a vigil for the victims of the clashes with the governments security forces, during protest against President Nicolas Maduro in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, May 17, 2017. Several humanitarian organizations and the opposition have accused the security forces of using too much violence during demonstrations against the government, which have left dozens dead.(AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

Venezuela opposition leader blocked from traveling to UN

Associated Press

Illustration on the crisis in Venezuela by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Venezuela veers back toward dictatorship

By Mark L. Schneider

Demonstrators hold candles during a vigil for the victims of the clashes with the government's security forces, during protest against President Nicolas Maduro in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, May 17, 2017. Several humanitarian organizations and the opposition have accused the security forces of using too much violence during demonstrations against the government, which have left dozens dead.(AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

EDITORIAL: The deadly peril in Venezuela

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Demonstrators hold candles during a vigil for the victims of the clashes with the governments security forces, during protest against President Nicolas Maduro in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, May 17, 2017. Several humanitarian organizations and the opposition have accused the security forces of using too much violence during demonstrations against the government, which have left dozens dead.(AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

New death in Venezuela puts toll at level of 2014 unrest

By LUZ DARY DEPABLOS - Associated Press

In this April 27, 2017 photo, a volunteer of the non-profit Accion Solidaria organizes imported medicines alphabetically, in a store room in Caracas, Venezuela. It’s a thankless, routine task common to pharmacies and hospitals worldwide. But this being Venezuela, where shortages are widespread, viewing the treasure trove of sometimes hard-to-find medicines can feel almost subversive. (AP Photo/Fidel Suarez)

Groups quietly bypass Venezuela’s ban on humanitarian aid

By JOSHUA GOODMAN and GISELA SALOMON - Associated Press

In this Tuesday, April 25, 2017 photo, Colorado Rockies rookie starting pitcher Antonio Senzatela shows the inscription on his shoes to his mother, Nidya, in Denver. Nidya never got to see her son pitch in the majors, passing away last July of cancer. &quot;She's watching me. I know she is,&quot; Senzatela said. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

A year after mom’s death, Senzatela pitches on Mother’s Day

By PAT GRAHAM - Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 14, 2014 file photo, Venezuelan-American fashion designer greets the audience after presenting her collection in Mexico City. Herrera's 34-year-old nephew Reinaldo Jose Herrera has been found dead inside a truck on a road near the capital city of Caracas, according to Venezuela's public prosecutor’s office on Friday, May 12, 2017. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte, File)

Fashion designer Carolina Herrera’s nephew killed in Caracas

Associated Press

FILE - In this April 24, 2017 file photo, Bolivarian National Police officers ride away on a motorcycle with a detained anti-government protester, in Caracas, Venezuela. President Nicolas Maduro’s administration is defending the use of the military tribunals to try detained protesters, saying they are part of emergency measures necessary to ensure national security against what they decry as foreign-backed attempts to violently oust the socialist government from power. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano, File)

Rising use of military tribunals alarms Venezuela activists

By CHRISTINE ARMARIO and FABIOLA SANCHEZ - Associated Press

A demonstrator hides behind a barricade during clashes with the Bolivarian National Guard, at El Hatillo municipality outside Caracas, Venezuela, Tuesday, May 2, 2017. People blocked streets in Caracas with broken concrete, twisted metal and flaming piles of trash to protest the president's bid to rewrite the constitution amid a rapidly escalating political crisis.(AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

U.S. warns on sanctions over Venezuela’s move on constitution

By Hannah Dreier and Joshua Goodman - Associated Press

Justices side with Venezuela in dispute over seized oil rigs

By SAM HANANEL - Associated Press

GM considering return to Venezuela after plant seized

By TOM KRISHER and JOSHUA GOODMAN - Associated Press

Children play in the street by images of Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez, left, which reads in Spanish &quot;Best friend of Cuba,&quot; and Cuba's revolutionary hero Ernesto &quot;Che&quot; Guevara in Havana, Cuba, Tuesday, April 25, 2017. A much-feared return to Cuba’s post-Soviet “Special Period” of food shortages and blackouts has yet to materialize as energy conservation and a boom in tourism and overseas remittances cushion the blow of a roughly 50 percent cut in Venezuelan oil aid worth hundreds of millions of dollars a year. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

Cuba weathers storm in Venezuela but future looks uncertain

By MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN - Associated Press