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Lou Dobbs, with Fox News, speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), on Feb. 24, 2017, in Oxon Hill, Md. Fox Business Network’s “Lou Dobbs Tonight” has been canceled. In a statement Friday, Feb. 5, 2021, Fox News said the move was part of routine programming changes that it had foreshadowed last fall. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Fox hosts Dobbs, Bartiromo, Pirro strike back in voting fraud suit

By Joshua Goodman

People protest against the extradition of Venezuelan Ernesto Quintero in Madrid, Spain, Friday, Feb. 12, 2021. The extradition of 40-year-old Ernesto Quintero triggered protests Friday among the Venezuelan community in Spain and opposition groups of the Venezuela government of Nicolas Maduro. Spain's National Court has approved the extradition of a financial broker wanted in Venezuela on charges of fraud and embezzlement of funds. Banners reads in Spanish: &quot;In Venezuela human rights are violated&quot;, &quot;No to the extradition of an innocent&quot;. (Oscar Canas/Europa Press via AP)

Spanish court rules to extradite broker to Venezuela

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Venezuelan Carlos Marrón poses for a portrait at his home in Miami, Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2020. Marrón says the torture he endured supports a United Nation’s report that Nicolás Maduro’s government committed possible crimes against humanity. (AP Photo/Cody Jackson)

AP Exclusive: Man recounts torture in Maduro’s Venezuela

By SCOTT SMITH - Associated Press

In this image take from UNTV video, Nayib Armando Bukele, President of El Salvador, speaks in a pre-recorded video message during the 75th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2020, at U.N. headquarters in New York. (UNTV via AP)

El Salvador kept paying DC lobbyist after claim he was fired

By JOSHUA GOODMAN - Associated Press

Elena Escalante helps her 3-year-old daughter Zaii prepare for a homespun beauty pageant in the Antimano neighborhood of Caracas, Venezuela, Friday, Feb. 5, 2021. Neighbors in the hillside barrio gathered for the carnival pageant tradition to select their child queen for the upcoming festivities. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

Amid pandemic, Venezuelans have fun picking Carnival queen

By Associated Press - Associated Press

A Venezuelan migrant shows his documents during a security check in the Miraflores district of Lima, Peru, Sunday, Jan. 24, 2021. Peru is hosting roughly 1 million displaced Venezuelans, an influx that began around 2014 as inflation, unemployment, crime and shortages of food and medicine soared in their homeland. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

Peru’s crime worries tainting Venezuelans who want to work

By REGINA GARCIA CANO and MAURICIO MUÑOZ - Associated Press

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro speaks during a ceremony marking the start of the judicial year at the Supreme Court in Caracas, Venezuela, Friday, Jan. 22, 2021. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

Venezuela hired Democratic Party donor for $6 million

By JOSHUA GOODMAN - Associated Press

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro speaks during a ceremony marking the start of the judicial year at the Supreme Court in Caracas, Venezuela, Friday, Jan. 22, 2021. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

Maduro’s ‘miracle’ treatment for COVID-19 draws skeptics

By SCOTT SMITH and JORGE RUEDA - Associated Press

EU urges dialogue in Venezuela to set up new elections

Associated Press

FILE - In this Sept. 19, 2020 file photo, a doctor takes a nasal swab sample to test for COVID-19 at the Cocodrilos Sports Park in Caracas, Venezuela. PAHO, the regional office for the World Health Organization in the Americas, said the week of Jan. 22 2021 that only 3,000, or about 1%, of the 340,000 COVID antigen testing kits sent to the country have been used. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix, File)

Venezuela power struggle impedes delivery of COVID vaccine

By JOSHUA GOODMAN and SCOTT SMITH - Associated Press

A family member of a patient hospitalized with COVID-19 waits in line in hopes of refilling empty oxygen tanks, outside the Nitron da Amazonia company, in Manaus, Amazonas state, Brazil, Friday, Jan. 15, 2021. (AP Photo/Edmar Barros)

Brazil receives oxygen from Venezuela for COVID-19 patients

By MAURICIO SAVARESE - Associated Press

Residents tap into a fire hydrant to fill their containers with water in the San Juan neighborhood of Caracas, Venezuela, Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2021, amid the new coronavirus pandemic. Venezuela's economic crisis has sent millions fleeing and those left behind lacking basic goods, including gasoline, in a country with one of the world's largest proven oil reserves. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

Trump blocks Venezuelans’ deportation in last political gift

By SCOTT SMITH and JOSHUA GOODMAN - Associated Press

President Donald Trump speaks near a section of the U.S.-Mexico border wall, Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2021, in Alamo, Texas. (Delcia Lopez/The Monitor via AP) **FILE**

Donald Trump grants deportation amnesty to Venezuelans

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Venezuela’s Maduro sends oxygen to Brazil amid virus spike

Associated Press

National Assembly President Jorge Rodriguez gives an interview at Congress in Caracas, Venezuela, Friday, Jan. 15, 2021. Rodriguez said he’s hopeful the Biden administration will roll back a “cruel” sanctions policy and instead give room for diplomacy that could lead to the reopening of the U.S. Embassy and the release of several jailed American citizens. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

AP EXCLUSIVE: Maduro ally presses for dialogue with Biden

By SCOTT SMITH and JOSHUA GOODMAN - Associated Press

FILE - In this Aug. 18, 2020 file photo, U.S. Rep. Gregory Meeks, D-N.Y., speaks during a news conference outside the USPS Jamaica station in the Queens borough of New York. Meeks, the new chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee under the Biden administration in 2021, is likely to be a key interlocutor for the incoming administration’s efforts to de-escalate tensions with Venezuela’s socialist government and negotiate an exit to the country’s political stalemate. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

NY Democrat’s ties to Maduro may help Biden unlock stalemate

By JOSHUA GOODMAN - Associated Press

NY Democrat’s ties to Maduro may help Biden unlock stalemate

By JOSHUA GOODMAN - Associated Press

Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó fist bumps with a resident during a visit to La Lucha neighborhood of Caracas, Venezuela, Thursday, Dec. 10, 2020. Guaidó’s coalition is holding a referendum which culminates on Saturday. It asks Venezuelans at home and abroad to say whether they wish to end President Nicolas Maduro’s rule and hold fresh presidential and legislative elections. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

Venezuela opposition scrambles for international legitimacy

By SCOTT SMITH and RAF CASERT - Associated Press

A government supporter known as &quot;Caperucita,&quot; or Little Red Riding Hood, holds a photo of late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez as she looks for something in her purse in Plaza Bolivar, near the National Assembly where newly elected National Assembly lawmakers will be sworn-in and hold their first session of the year in Caracas, Venezuela, Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2021. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

Venezuela’s socialists take control of once-defiant congress

By JORGE RUEDA and JOSHUA GOODMAN - Associated Press

US again protects Citgo assets from Venezuela creditors

Associated Press