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Since April 2020, U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) has seen an increase in narcotrafficking through and from Venezuela toward Central America and Europe, two U.S. government officials said on August 28. “Venezuela has become a criminal paradise […] for narcoterrorists and drug traffickers,” U.S. Coast Guard Rear Admiral Andrew Tiongson, SOUTHCOM director of Operations, said. In a teleconference with journalists, Rear…

As the political crisis and the coronavirus pandemic worsen, the regime of Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro has ceded control of different urban areas in Caracas and the country’s inland to the so-called “illegally armed colectivos.” At the entrance to the 23 de Enero parish, barely half a kilometer from the Miraflores Presidential Palace, these groups have taken on the mission of…

On August 14, Colombian President Iván Duque said that “diplomatic pressure has pushed the dictatorship out of its comfort zone,” in reference to the illegitimate Nicolás Maduro dictatorship, during the XIX Meeting of Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the Lima Group. The head of state, speaking from Bogotá, stated that this pressure should continue. In addition, U.S. Secretary of State…

The Maduro regime encourages international terrorist groups to run free in Venezuela, according to a U.S. Department of State report. The Country Reports on Terrorism 2019, released June 24, documents Colombian and religious terrorist organizations inside of Venezuela that are not only permitted to operate in the country but encouraged to stay by illegitimate leader Nicolás Maduro. “Maduro and his…

The new Uruguayan Foreign Minister Francisco Bustillo introduced the course of action that will guide his tenure and the foreign policy of the government of President Luis Lacalle Pou. In this respect, he announced changes in the country’s strategy on Venezuela, and made it clear that the Nicolás Maduro regime is a dictatorship. “According to public international law, democratic norms,…

With the announcement by Venezuelan Interim President Juan Guaidó and other opposition parties that conditions do not currently exist for free and fair elections in Venezuela, the United States vowed they will continue to recognize the decisions made by the National Assembly, and Guaidó as the legitimate leader of Venezuela. Elliott Abrams, the U.S. Special Representative for Venezuela, confirmed this…