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FILE - In this Dec. 21, 1996 file photo, Venezuela's Antonio Cermeno, left, fights Japan's Yuichi Kasai in a WBA Junior Featherweight Championship bout in Las Vegas. Cermeno, a WBA super bantamweight and featherweight champion in the 1990's, was kidnapped on Monday, Feb. 24, 2014 in Caracas, Venezuela and found shot to death the next day, police said. (AP Photo/Jim Laurie, File)

Former boxing world champion killed in Venezuela

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Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

CARDENAS: Venezuela still reeling from dysfunction

By Jose Cardenas

Former President Jimmy Carter

Jimmy Carter plans trip to Venezuela

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Marlins’ Alvarez brings wife, child from Venezuela

By CHUCK KING - Associated Press

Bobby Abreu wants to play ball _ again

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Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro speaks next to a painting of the late Hugo Chavez, during a news conference at Miraflores Presidential Palace in Caracas, Venezuela, Friday, Feb. 21, 2014. Speaking Friday to international media, Maduro called out what he said was a "campaign of demonization to isolate the Bolivarian revolution." (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

EDITORIAL: Socialist Venezuela runs out of money

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

In this undated photo, Genesis Carmona, model and Miss Tourism 2013 for the Venezuelan state of Carabobo, poses for a photo in Valencia, Venezuela. On Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2014, Carmona, a 22-year-old university student, was struck in the head and killed by a bullet during an opposition protest in Valencia, Venezuela where National Guard troops shot rubber bullets and unknown gunmen on motorcycles fired live rounds at protesters. (AP Photo/Diario Notitarde)

Slain beauty queen mourned in Venezuela

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Objects placed by opposition protesters block a road in the Altamira neighborhood of Caracas, Venezuela, Thursday, Feb. 20, 2014. Violence is heating up in Venezuela as an opposition leader faces criminal charges for organizing a rally that set off escalating turmoil in the oil-rich, but economically struggling country. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Paratroopers to join Venezuela crackdown on unrest

By BEN FOX and JOSHUA GOODMAN - Associated Press

Demonstrators hold up their hands during a protest in Caracas, Venezuela, Sunday, Feb. 16, 2014. Demonstrators are protesting the Wednesday killings of two university students who were shot in different incidents after an anti-government protest demanding the release of student protesters arrested in various parts of the country. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

Venezuela expels 3 U.S. diplomats as anti-government protests intensify

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FILE - In this Aug. 21, 2013 file photo, Kansas City Royals' Mike Moustakas bats during the third inning of a baseball game against the Chicago White Sox, in Kansas City, Mo. Moustakas walked through the empty ballroom with such a confident swagger that it was hard to believe the Royals third baseman was coming off one of the toughest seasons of his career _ and heading into one of the most important ones. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)

Royals’ Moustakas aiming for bounce-back year

By DAVE SKRETTA - Associated Press

Cuba pitcher Vicyhandri Odelin throws a ball in the first inning of a Caribbean Series baseball game against Puerto Rico in Porlamar, Venezuela, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2014. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

Cuban soul-searching after baseball humiliation

By ANNE-MARIE GARCIA - Associated Press

Cuba baseball team draws protests in Venezuela

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Opposition Venezuelan blogger steps aside

By JOSHUA GOODMAN - Associated Press

Ex-Colombian drug lord pleads guilty in US

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Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro speaks during his annual state-of-the-nation address to the National Assembly in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2014. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

Venezuela’s president blames soap operas for crime

By FABIOLA SANCHEZ - Associated Press

CORRECTS YEAR OF KILLING - FILE - This May 23, 2005 file photo released by Miss Universe shows Monica Spear, Miss Venezuela 2005, posing for a portrait ahead of the Miss Universe competition in Bangkok, Thailand. Venezuelan authorities say the soap-opera actress and former Miss Venezuela and her husband were shot and killed resisting a robbery after their car broke down. Prosecutors said in a statement that Monica Spear and Henry Thomas Berry were slain late Monday, Jan. 6, 2014 near Puerto Cabello, Venezuela’s main port. (AP Photo/Miss Universe Darren Decker, File)

Slain actress: Symbol of Venezuela’s crime woes

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