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Portugal's President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, left, speaks with the president of Dominican Republic, Luis Abinader centre and Portugal's Prime Minister Antonio Costa during the Latin American leaders' summit in Andorra la Valla in Andorra, Tuesday April 20, 2021. Leaders from Latin American countries, Portugal, Spain and Andorra, are set to push for universal access to vaccines and flexible funding for economic recovery at their first summit since the pandemic started. (Alberto Estevez/Pool via AP)

Latin American leaders seek more vaccines at Andorra summit

By ARITZ PARRA - Associated Press

Youth carry bags of basic food staples, such as pasta, sugar, flour and kitchen oil, provided by a government food assistance program, to delivery it in the Santa Rosalia neighborhood of Caracas, Venezuela, Saturday, April 10, 2021. The program known as Local Committees of Supply and Production, CLAP, provides subsidized food for vulnerable families, especially now in the midst of a quarantine to stop the COVID-19 pandemic that has left many without income. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

UN agency to provide food assistance for Venezuelan children

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Matthias Krull, a former banker for Switzerland’s Julius Baer in Venezuela, poses for a portrait at his home in Miami on March 18, 2021. For two decades, Krull played a singular role in Venezuela as the go-to private banker for government insiders, before pleading guilty to conspiracy to commit money laundering in Miami federal court in 2018. (AP Photo/Cody Jackson)

Swiss banker to Venezuelan kleptocrats becomes star witness

By JOSHUA GOODMAN - Associated Press

Matthias Krull, a former banker for Switzerland’s Julius Baer in Venezuela, poses for a portrait at his home in Miami on March 18, 2021. For two decades, Krull played a singular role in Venezuela as the go-to private banker for government insiders, before pleading guilty to conspiracy to commit money laundering in Miami federal court in 2018. (AP Photo/Cody Jackson)

Swiss banker to Venezuela’s ruling elite turns star witness

By JOSHUA GOODMAN - Associated Press

Venezuelans carry their belongings after using a boat to cross the Arauca River, the natural border between Venezuela and Colombia, as they arrive to Arauquita, Colombia, Thursday, March 25, 2021. Thousands of Venezuelans are seeking shelter in Colombia this week following clashes between Venezuela's military and a Colombian armed group in a community along the nations' shared border. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

NGOs: Venezuela military, Colombia rebels continue fighting

By MARKO ÁLVAREZ and ASTRID SUÁREZ - Associated Press

Alberto Alfonso turns on a generator to keep oxygen concentrators working as nurse Marlene Cabezasstand stands next to him in the living room of the Lares family apartment in Caracas, Venezuela, Thursday, March 18, 2021. The Lares family is being treated at home for COVID-19. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

Venezuelan COVID patients increasingly seeking in-home care

By JUAN PABLO ARRÁEZ and JORGE RUEDA - Associated Press

Iranian refineries are fueling defiance of U.S. sanctions imposed by the Trump administration. China has sent a lifeline to Tehran by tripling its purchases of oil from the nation since President Biden took office. (Associated Press)

China flouts Iran sanctions on oil as Trump-era pressure campaign crumbles

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Thousands flee to Colombia after clashes on Venezuela border

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FILE - In this March 3, 2021 file photo, youths who cull through trash for items to resell ride on the back of a garbage truck entering the Pavia landfill on the outskirts of Barquisimeto, Venezuela. A U.S. senator urged the Biden administration Tuesday, March 23, 2021, to lift a ban on diesel fuel swaps with Venezuela, adding to pressure from some Democrats and aid workers who argue sanctions are worsening the South American country's dire humanitarian crisis. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos, File)

Democrat adds pressure on Biden to review Venezuela sanction

By JOSHUA GOODMAN - Associated Press

In this Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021, file photo, President Joe Biden pauses as he signs his first executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. On Friday, Feb. 12, 2021, The Associated Press reported on a manipulated photo circulating online incorrectly asserting it shows Biden asleep in his seat at the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office with a stack of executive orders in front of him. Biden’s head in the post comes from a 2011 event where he appears to briefly doze off as former President Barack Obama delivered a speech on the national debt. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Democrats on warpath to crumble America

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Ronaikel Brito walks home with a sack of things he collected from the Pavia garbage dump that he can sell, on the outskirts of in Barquisimeto, Venezuela, Wednesday, March 3, 2021. The 16-year-old began helping his mother Marbelis sift through garbage when he was five years old, following in the steps of his grandmother. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

Venezuelan children pick through garbage for food, valuables

By JUAN PABLO ARRÁEZ - Associated Press

Venezuelan Ruth Valle poses for a portrait at her home in Miami, Florida, Tuesday, March 9, 2021. Valle became stranded in Miami just over a year ago, after having taken a trip on a tourist visa to buy clothes, cosmetics, and food to resell in Venezuela and make some extra money to subsist. But flights were canceled due to the pandemic in March 2020, two days before hers was scheduled to depart, and she has remained in South Florida since then. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier)

Venezuelans overjoyed by US temporary residency opportunity

By REGINA GARCIA CANO and GISELA SALOMON - Associated Press

Security forces take part in a military drill to mark the eighth death anniversary of President Hugo Chavez in Caracas, Venezuela, late Friday, March 5, 2021. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

US lets Venezuelans stay temporarily, will review sanctions

By BEN FOX - Associated Press

FILE - In this May 3, 2020 file photo, Veneuzuelan security forces guard the shore and a boat in which authorities claim a group of armed men landed in the port city of La Guaira, Venezuela, calling it an armed maritime incursion from neighboring Colombia. Yacsy Álvarez, a woman who was charged in Colombia with helping organize the attempted armed invasion to overthrow Venezuela’s socialist government, says Colombian authorities were aware of the plotters’ movements and did nothing to stop them and that she’s being made a scapegoat for the sins of others who abandoned the would be rebels. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix, File)

3 Venezuelans plead guilty for aiding anti-Maduro plot

By JOSHUA GOODMAN - Associated Press

European Union Ambassador to Venezuela Isabel Brilhante Pedrosa leaves a meeting with Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza where she was given a letter of &quot;persona non grata&quot; and given 72 hours to leave the country, at Arreaza's office in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2021. The meeting was called after the EU sanctioned an additional 19 Venezuelans for &quot;undermining democracy and the rule of law&quot; in Venezuela and the National Assembly declared the EU ambassador &quot;persona non grata.&quot; (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

Chief European Union diplomat in Venezuela leaves country

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EU targets Venezuela envoy in tit-for-tat expulsions

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European Union Ambassador to Venezuela Isabel Brilhante Pedrosa is presented with a letter of &quot;persona non grata&quot; from Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza at his office in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2021. The meeting was called after the EU sanctioned an additional 19 Venezuelans for &quot;undermining democracy and the rule of law&quot; in Venezuela and the National Assembly declared the EU ambassador &quot;persona non grata.&quot; (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

Sanctions prompt Venezuela to expel head of EU delegation

By JORGE RUEDA - Associated Press

Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias, left, greets Italy's Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio, center, and European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell during a meeting of EU foreign ministers at the European Council building in Brussels, Monday, Feb 22, 2021. European Union foreign ministers on Monday will look at options for imposing fresh sanctions against Russia over the jailing of opposition leader Alexei Navalny as the 27-nation bloc considers the future of its troubled ties with the country. (Yves Herman, Pool via AP)

EU slaps sanctions on 19 more Venezuelan officials

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UN human rights body opens session as Myanmar concerns loom

By JAMEY KEATEN - Associated Press

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro points to supporters during an event marking Youth Day at Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas, Venezuela, Friday, Feb. 12, 2021, amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The annual holiday commemorates young people who accompanied heroes in the battle for Venezuela's independence. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

Maduro lodges new allegation of US spying on Venezuela firm

By SCOTT SMITH - Associated Press