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FILE - In this Feb. 6, 2017 file photo, Venezuela's Foreign Minister Delcy Rodriguez attends a news conference in Moscow, Russia. Venezuela suspended CNN in Spanish on Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2017, shutting off the news channel a few hours after officials angrily criticized a report saying government workers engaged in selling fraudulent passports. Rodriguez said President Nicolas Maduro's government had requested that authorities take action against CNN in Spanish because of the &quot;damage&quot; it caused Venezuela. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin, File)

Venezuela shuts off CNN in Spanish after criticizing story

By FABIOLA SANCHEZ - Associated Press

Venezuelan Vice President Tareck El Aissami said the Trump administration's action represented "miserable and defamatory aggression." (Associated Press)

Tareck El Aissami, Venezuela vice president, rejects U.S. ‘drug kingpin’ sanctions

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Reynaldo Navarro of Puerto Rico's Criollos de Caguas, left, celebrates with teammate Jesmuel Valentin after their teammate Ruben Gotay scored a run, during a Caribbean Series baseball game against Venezuela's Aguilas de Zulia, in Culiacan, Mexico, Monday, Feb. 6, 2017. (AP Photo/Luis Gutierrez)

Mexico and Puerto Rico to play for Caribbean Series title

Associated Press

In this Jan. 25, 2017 photo, Colombia's actor Andres Parra plays the role of Venezuela's former President Hugo Chavez during the filming of &quot;El Comandante&quot; in Bogota, Colombia. The life of Chavez, who mesmerized Venezuela’s impoverished masses before dying of cancer in 2013, is being dramatized in a Spanish-language TV series that is generating a backlash even before it airs. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

Hugo Chavez returns to life in TV show criticized by allies

By ALBA TOBELLA and JOSHUA GOODMAN - Associated Press

FILE - In this July 13, 2016, file photo, Laurie Holt holds a photograph of her son Joshua Holt, who has been jailed in Venezuela for several months, at her home, in Riverton, Utah. Laurie issuing another tearful plea for help, this time to President Donald Trump. She said in her new YouTube video that her son Joshua = did nothing wrong and is being used as &quot;political pawn&quot; by Venezuela's government. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

Mother asks Trump to help free son jailed in Venezuela

By BRADY McCOMBS - Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 14, 2016 file photo, a youth uses his pillow as a bag to collect rice from the pavement that shook loose from a food cargo truck waiting to enter the port in Puerto Cabello, Venezuela, the port that handles the majority of Venezuela's food imports. The calls by members of Congress on both sides of the aisle to sanction Venezuelan officials for profiting from food shortages come in response to an Associated Press investigation that found trafficking in hard-to-find food has become big business in Venezuela, with the military at the heart of the graft. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos, File)

U.S. lawmakers propose sanctions for Venezuela food corruption

By HANNAH DREIER and JOSHUA GOODMAN - Associated Press

Ozzie Guillen: No big leaguer should play winter ball

By JORGE RUEDA - Associated Press

People wait outside a supermarket to buy government subsided food in Caracas, Venezuela. As domestic production dries up in Venezuela, the state has given itself the role of importing nearly all the country's food. (Associated Press)

Venezuela’s exclusion from trade summit underscores growing isolation in Latin America

By Frederic Puglie - Special to The Washington Times

In this Nov. 14, 2016 photo, a youth uses his pillow as a bag to collect rice from the pavement that shook loose from a food cargo truck waiting to enter the port in Puerto Cabello, Venezuela, the port that handles the majority of Venezuela's food imports. As millions of Venezuelans go hungry this year, food trafficking has become one of the most lucrative businesses in the country. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

Venezuela military trafficking food as country goes hungry

By HANNAH DREIER and JOSHUA GOODMAN - Associated Press

Cuba's President Raul Castro addresses the National Assembly in Havana, Cuba, Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2016. (Ladyrene Perez, Cubadebate via AP)

Cuba sees economy shrink 1 percent despite detente with US

By ANDREA RODRIGUEZ - Associated Press

Carlos Tevez, of Boca Juniors, reacts during a local tournament soccer match against River Plate in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Sunday, March 6, 2016. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Argentina hoping to improve in World Cup against Colombia

By MAURICIO SAVARESE - Associated Press

Brazil's coach Tite jokes with a mascot during a training session in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, Monday, Nov. 7, 2016. Brazil will face Argentina in a 2018 World Cup qualifying soccer match on Thursday. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)

Messi back for Argentina; Chile loses Sanchez for qualifier

By MAURICIO SAVARESE - Associated Press

Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro speaks during a political rally against the Congress in Caracas, Venezuela, Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2016. After the government suspended a recall referendum seeking Maduro's removal last week, the opposition-controlled congress began debating his &quot;constitutional situation.&quot; Lawmakers vow to present evidence that Maduro a dual Colombian citizen and therefore constitutionally ineligible to hold Venezuela's highest office. (AP Photo/Alejandro Cegarra)

Venezuela braces for anti-government protests amid crisis

By Joshua Goodman and Jorge Rueda - Associated Press

Francisco Marquez chats with his mother Maria Luz Lara-Marquez at family home in Del Mar, California, Thursday, Oct. 201.2016. The 30-year-old dual U.S. citizen spoke of his four-month incarceration in his native Venezuela, two days after he was freed and boarded a flight to join his parents in Southern California. He was arrested in June while taking part in a nationwide recall campaign against President Nicolas Maduro and accused of trying to foment violence. (AP Photo/Elliot Spagat)

Venezuelan activist moves to US after release from ‘dungeon’

By ELLIOT SPAGAT - Associated Press

Chicago Cubs president for baseball operations Theo Epstein looks up during the team practice before baseball's National League Championship Series against the Los Angeles Dodgers, Friday, Oct. 14, 2016, in Chicago. The Cubs host Game 1 of the series against the Dodgers on Saturday. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

Column: Kid does it all, even with one eye on back home

By JIM LITKE - Associated Press

Bolivia goalie Carlos Emilio Lampe, right, checks on Brazil’s Neymar as he lies on the pitch with his face bleeding after a rough play during a 2018 World Cup qualifying soccer match against Bolivia, in Natal, Brazil, Thursday, Oct. 6, 2016. Brazil won the match 5-0. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Tite’s Brazil trashes Bolivia as Neymar scores 300th goal

By MAURICIO SAVARESE - Associated Press