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Opposition leader Juan Guaido speaks during an interview with the Associated Press in Caracas, Venezuela, Thursday, Feb. 10, 2022. Guaidó on Monday, April 24, 2023, said he crossed the border into Colombia “on foot” to seek a meeting with international delegations gathering there for a conference focused on his country’s political crisis. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos, File)

Guaido travels to Colombia ahead of Venezuela-focused summit

By Regina Garcia Cano - Associated Press

Makeshift tents and debris are seen at a migrant camp in Matamoros, Mexico, Friday, April 21, 2023. About two dozen makeshift tents in the area were set ablaze and destroyed, across the border from Texas this week, witnesses said. (AP Photo/Valerie Gonzalez)

Mexico migrant camp tents torched across border from Texas

By Valerie Gonzalez - Associated Press

Claudia Patricia Diaz Guillen, the former nurse of former Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, leaves the national court in Madrid, Spain, Sept. 24, 2018. A federal judge in South Florida will announce Guillen's sentence on April 19, 2023, months after she was convicted of laundering money from bribes while serving as Venezuela's director of the National Treasury. (AP Photo/Paul White, File)

U.S. judge sends late Venezuelean President Hugo Chavez’s ex nurse to prison for 15 years

By Gisela Salomon and Joshua Goodman - Associated Press

Venezuelan Attorney General Tarek William Saab holds a news conference about corruption cases with the state-run oil company, PDVSA, in Caracas, Venezuela, Saturday, March 25, 2023. Venezuela's oil czar, Tareck El Aissami, who announced his resignation on Twitter on Monday, March 20, 2023, pledged to help investigate any allegations involving PDVSA. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

Shadowy brokers walk off with billions in Venezuelan oil

By Regina Garcia Cano and Joshua Goodman - Associated Press

A pedestrian walks a sign of Petroleos de Venezuela, S.A, PDVSA, and an image of Venezuelan independence hero Simon Bolivar, in Caracas, Venezuela, March 20, 2023. Venezuela's oil czar, Tareck El Aissami announced his resignation on Twitter and pledged to help investigate any allegations involving PDVSA. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

Venezuela oil czar in surprise resignation amid graft probes

By Regina Garcia Cano - Associated Press

United States' Mookie Betts (3) is congratulated by teammates after he scored on a throwing error by Venezuela center fielder Ronald Acuna Jr., during the first inning of a World Baseball Classic game, Saturday, March 18, 2023, in Miami. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

Turner’s grand slam lifts U.S. over Venezuela, into WBC semis

By Alanis Thames - Associated Press

Children play with "Super Bigote" dolls in the Carayaca neighborhood of La Guaira , Venezuela, Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2022. The delivery of toys of "Super Bigote" or Super Mustache and "Cilita" dolls based on the image of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores, were handed to thousands of children this Christmas, causing controversy among some Venezuelans. (AP Photo/Jesus Vargas)

‘Super Bigote’: Maduro-like Christmas toy stirs controversy in Venezuela

By Camille Rodriguez Montilla and Manuel Rueda - Associated Press

Venezuelan migrants play soccer at a makeshift campson a river bank in Matamoros, Mexico, Thursday, Dec. 22, 2022. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

Migrants near U.S. border face cold wait for key asylum ruling

By Morgan Lee and Elliot Spagat - Associated Press

A woman holds a poster showing Colombian-born businessman Alex Saab in a demonstration demanding his release, in Caracas, Venezuela, Friday, Dec. 16, 2022. For more than two years, almost since the time of his arrest on U.S. warrant, Saab has insisted he is a Venezuelan diplomat targeted for his work helping the South American country circumvent American economic sanctions. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

U.S. judge rejects Maduro ally’s claim of diplomatic immunity

By Joshua Goodman - Associated Press

Migrants gather near a camp fire near the U.S.-Mexico border as seen from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2022. The U.S. Supreme Court issued a temporary order to keep pandemic-era limits on asylum-seekers in place, though it could be brief, as conservative-leaning states push to maintain a measure that allows officials to expel many but not all asylum-seekers. (AP Photo/Christian Chavez)

Tens of thousands at U.S.-Mexico border wait for limits to end

By Morgan Lee and Giovanna Dell'Orto and Rebecca Santana - Associated Press

A Chevron sign is displayed outside one of the company's gas stations in Bradenton, Fla., Feb. 22, 2022. The Biden administration is easing some oil sanctions on Venezuela in an effort to support newly restarted negotiations between the Venezuelan government and its opposition. The Treasury Department is allowing Chevron to resume “limited” energy production in Venezuela after years of sanctions that have dramatically curtailed oil and gas profits that have flowed to President Nicolás Maduro’s government. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)

Biden administration grants Chevron license to expand oil operations in Venezuela

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

The Bullenbaai oil terminal sits along the coast of the Dutch Caribbean island of Curacao near Willemstad, Dec. 24, 2016. The terminal is at the center of an effort by Venezuela to get around U.S. sanctions, the Associated Press has learned. (AP Photo/Dick Drayer)

U.S.-owned firms appear to help Venezuela avoid US sanctions

By Joshua Goodman - Associated Press

Pedestrians walk near a poster asking for the freedom of Colombian businessman and Venezuelan special envoy Alex Saab, in Caracas, Venezuela, Sept. 9, 2021. Saab’s attorneys filed a new motion on Oct. 17, 2022 to dismiss criminal charges, arguing once again that he was illegally abducted on U.S. orders while traveling as a diplomat to Iran. Saab was arrested in Cape Verde in June 2020, and extradited to the U.S to face charges in Oct. 2021. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos, File)

Venezuela’s bid to save ‘diplomat’ from U.S. charges takes hit

By Joshua Goodman - Associated Press

Magical Realism in Venezuela Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Venezuela, magical realism and the naive Biden administration

By Ron MacCammon

FILE - A fisherman navigates past an inoperative oil drill on Lake Maracaibo in Venezuela, early Oct. 12, 2022.A 49-page indictment unsealed on Oct. 20 in New York federal court has charged seven individuals with conspiring to smuggle oil from PDVSA, purchase sensitive U.S. military technology, and launder tens of millions of dollars on behalf of wealthy Russian businessmen. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos, File)

Cash is king for sanctioned Russian, Venezuelan oligarchs

By Joshua Goodman - Associated Press

The cost of socialist ideals illustration by Linas Garsys / The Washington Times

From Venezuela to America: Sharing the true cost of socialist ideals

By Jorge Galicia

This undated file photo posted on Twitter on June 18, 2020, by Venezuela's Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza, shows CITGO oil executives Jose Angel Pereira, from left to right, Gustavo Cardenas, Jorge Toledo, Jose Luis Zambrano, Tomeu Vadell and Alirio Jose Zambrano, standing outside the Bolivarian National Intelligence Service, in Caracas, Venezuela. On Saturday, Oct. 1, 2022, Venezuela freed seven Americans, including five oil executives imprisoned for nearly five years, in exchange for the release of two nephews of President Nicholas Maduro's wife who had been jailed for years by the United States on drug smuggling convictions. (Posted on Twitter by Jorge Arreaza/Venezuela's Foreign Ministry via AP File)

Venezuela releases 7 jailed Americans; U.S. frees 2 prisoners

By Eric Tucker and Joshua Goodman - Associated Press

This undated photo provided by the U.S. Marshals Service shows Leonard Francis, who was on home confinement, allegedly cut off his GPS ankle monitor and left his home on the morning of Sept. 4, 2022. The fugitive defense contractor nicknamed &quot;Fat Leonard&quot; - who is at the center of one of the U.S. Navy's worst corruption scandals - has requested asylum in Venezuela, according to a law enforcement official in the South American country. (U.S. Marshals Service via AP, File)

Navy bribery fugitive ‘Fat Leonard’ seeks Venezuelan asylum

By Joshua Goodman and Julie Watson - Associated Press

Migrants gather their personal items as they wait to be processed by the Border Patrol after illegally crossing the Rio Grande River from Mexico into the United States at Eagle Pass, Texas, Friday, Aug. 26, 2022. Venezuelans have surpassed Guatemalans and Hondurans to become the second-largest nationality stopped at the U.S. border in August 2022 after Mexicans. (AP Photo/Eric Gay) **FILE**

Increase in Venezuelan migration is felt across U.S.

By Acacia Coronado and Gisela Salomon - Associated Press

Dario Maldonado poses for a portrait across the street from a homeless shelter on Thursday, Aug. 11, 2022, in New York. Maldonado recently arrived from Venezuela after deserting the country's military. He was directed by border officials in Texas to free buses provided by the state to New York and Washington. (AP Photo/Robert Bumsted)

Asylum seekers caught in political battle in NYC, Washington

By Bobby Caina Calvan and Ashraf Khalil - Associated Press