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Venezuela frees U.S. citizens in prisoner swap deal
Semafor via Yahoo News· 4 months agoSemafor Signals Insights from NPR, AP, El País NEWS The U.S. freed a close ally of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in exchange for 10 detained...
Former top lawyer of Venezuela’s oil company pleads guilty in $1.2B money-laundering case
Miami Herald via Yahoo News· 1 year agoA former general counsel of Venezuela’s state-owned oil company has pleaded guilty to a...
Bribery trial tests US cases against Venezuela kleptocrats
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 1 year agoFor years, as the U.S. has ramped up pressure on Venezuela’s socialist government, dozens of...
Hitman ‘was in trouble’ and couldn’t accept $15,000 job to kill two people, feds say
Miami Herald via Yahoo News· 4 months agoA man wanted two people in Florida killed over a $60,000 debt, but the hitman he had in mind for the...
Two Americans detained in Venezuela ask Biden to secure release
CBS News via Yahoo News· 5 months agoThree Americans held in Venezuela — Eyvin Hernandez, Jerrel Kenemore and Joseph Cristella — have...
‘Fat Leonard’ arrested in Venezuela after fleeing US house arrest in Navy bribery scandal
The Hill via Yahoo News· 2 years agoLeonard Francis, better known as “Fat Leonard,” has been arrested in Venezuela after he escaped from...
Former Venezuelan military official pleads guilty to bribery, paying himself millions
Miami Herald via Yahoo News· 2 months agoFrom his home in Fort Lauderdale, a former Venezuelan military officer directed a complex scheme to...
U.S. hostage envoy visits Venezuela in bid to free jailed Americans-sources
Reuters via Yahoo News· 2 years agoCARACAS/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden's chief hostage negotiator led a U.S. delegation...
Top Venezuela oil official pleads guilty to taking bribes
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe former general counsel for Venezuela’s state-owned oil company pleaded guilty in Miami federal court on money laundering charges Wednesday in connection to a conspiracy to siphon at least ...
Ex-Venezuelan treasurer, husband sentenced to 15 years in Miami bribery case
Miami Herald via Yahoo News· 1 year agoA federal judge Wednesday sent a former Venezuelan national treasurer and her husband to prison for...