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FIFA president Gianni Infantino, left, smiles after receiving the shirt of the Venezuelan soccer team with Venezuela President Nicolás Maduro, right, during his visit at Miraflores Presidential Palace in in Caracas, Venezuela , Friday , Oct 15, 2021. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
Atletico Venezuela vs Caracas FC 10/14/2021

Oct. 16, 2021 03:36 PM EDT

Brazil's players stand during the national anthem prior to a Copa America soccer match against Venezuela at the National Stadium in Brasilia, Brazil, Sunday, June 13, 2021. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)
Copa America's COVID-19 cases increase 13 to 66

By Mauricio Savarese Jun. 17, 2021 05:27 PM EDT

The Copa America trophy is placed on the field prior to the opening match between Brazil and Venezuela at National Stadium in Brasilia, Brazil, Sunday, June 13, 2021. (AP Photo/Ricardo Mazalan)
Brazil: 41 COVID-19 cases connected to Copa America event

By Mauricio Savarese Jun. 14, 2021 10:00 PM EDT

A nurse inoculates a woman with a dose of the Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine at the Perez Carreno public hospital in Caracas, Venezuela, Friday, April 9, 2021. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
US weighs policy on Venezuela as Maduro signals flexibility

By Joshua Goodman Apr. 26, 2021 02:03 PM EDT

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 Jan. 20, 2021 04:54 PM EST

FILE - This Nov. 12, 2020 selfie photo provided by the Renown Regional Medical Center shows Dr. Jacob Keeperman, the Renown Transfer and Operations Center medical director who made the photo on the opening day of the Renown Regional Medical Center's alternative care site located in a parking garage. On Friday, Dec. 4, 2020, The Associated Press reported on stories circulating online incorrectly asserting this photo at an auxiliary care site for COVID-19 patients proves that the coronavirus pandemic is a hoax. The photo, which shows empty hospital beds, was taken the day the site was opened, and patients had yet to arrive. (Jacob Keeperman/Renown Regional Medical Center via AP)
NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn't happen this week

By The Associated Press Dec. 04, 2020 02:31 PM EST

A man wearing a face mask amid the COVID-19 pandemic passes a mural of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, July 22, 2020. Analysts say that in recent months the pandemic has helped suck away the opposition’s scanty momentum and bolster Maduro’s already strong hand. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
Close adviser to Venezuela's president has coronavirus

Aug. 12, 2020 10:09 PM EDT

FILE - In this June 17, 2020 file photo, Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guiado, sitting left, listens as Henry Ramos Allup, president of the Democratic Action political party, gives a press conference in Caracas, Venezuela, the day after Venezuela's Supreme Court ordered the party's takeover ahead of parliamentary elections expected this year. Some wear masks due to the COVID-19 pandemic. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix, File)
Maduro's hold on Venezuela tightens as coronavirus surges

By Scott Smith Jul. 28, 2020 11:51 AM EDT

Registered Nurse Laure Hale writes on her car as she is preparing to take part in a motorcade protest to the Duval County School Board building, Tuesday, July 14, 2020 in Jacksonville, Fla. Duval County teachers and their supporters gathered in a parking lot before they drove to the Duval County School Board Building and protest plans of starting the upcoming school year with the rate of COVID-19 infections hitting record rates in Jacksonville. (Bob Self/The Florida Times-Union via AP)
The Latest: China eases restrictions on domestic tourism

By The Associated Press Jul. 14, 2020 02:12 AM EDT

FILE - In this April 15, 2020, file photo, New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham puts on her face mask when not speaking during an update on the COVID-19 outbreak in the state during a news conference in the state Capitol in Santa Fe, N.M. Gov. Lujan Grisham used her line-item veto power to preserve executive control over hundreds of millions of dollars in federal coronavirus relief funding, a move that could mean the loss of additional financial assistance for some Native American communities. She used her veto pen to scratch out entire paragraphs of the budget to prevent the Legislature from earmarking $318 million in federal virus relief funding for local governments. (Eddie Moore/The Albuquerque Journal via AP, Pool, File)
The Latest: New Mexico closes state parks, suspends sports

By The Associated Press Jul. 09, 2020 01:37 AM EDT

FILE - In this Jan. 15, 2020 file photo, Mauricio Claver-Carone, deputy assistant to President Donald Trump and senior director for Western Hemisphere affairs, right, arrives to meet with Bolivia's Foreign Minister Karen Longaric in La Paz, Bolivia. The Trump administration said Tuesday, June 16, 2020, that it plans to nominate Claver-Carone to lead the Inter-American Development Bank. (AP Photo/Juan Karita, File)
Testing tradition, Trump taps US official to lead Latin bank

By Joshua Goodman Jun. 16, 2020 08:44 PM EDT

Venezuela demands release of businessman connected to Maduro

By Joshua Goodman Jun. 13, 2020 09:50 PM EDT
MIAMI (AP) — Venezuela on Saturday demanded the release of a government-connected businessman who was detained in Cape Verde on U.S. corruption charges,...

A heath worker takes a nasal swab sample during a public testing for the new coronavirus conducted at a market in Bali, Indonesia on Friday, June 12, 2020. (AP Photo/Firdia Lisnawati)
The Latest: South Korea capital adds more coronavirus cases

By The Associated Press Jun. 12, 2020 01:23 AM EDT

The film Aladdin is projected on a screen set up on the roof of a home in the Petare neighborhood of Caracas, Venezuela, late Monday, June 1, 2020. A neighborhood group called The Download Zone set up the movie as a free entertainment option for families cooped up since mid-March under the COVID-19 quarantine. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
Virus forges rare accord among bitter Venezuelan rivals

By Scott Smith Jun. 03, 2020 12:41 PM EDT

A worker completely covered by protective gear, amid the new coronavirus pandemic, stands at the entrance of the Corabastos market, one of Latin America's largest food distribution centers, where he takes people's temperatures in the Kennedy area of Bogota, Colombia, Monday, June 1, 2020. Bogota's Mayor Claudia Lopez said Saturday that starting June 1, this working-class area will be under strict quarantine while COVID-19 cases here continue to rise. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)
South America ignores Europe and reopens as virus peak nears

By Diane Jeantet And David Biller Jun. 01, 2020 04:29 PM EDT

Editorial Roundup: Ohio

By The Associated Press Jun. 01, 2020 04:27 PM EDT
Recent editorials of statewide and national interest from Ohio newspapers: Fixing our broken country will require all of us ...

A truck loaded with Tesla cars departs the Tesla plant Tuesday, May 12, 2020, in Fremont, Calif. Tesla CEO Elon Musk has emerged as a champion of defying stay-home orders intended to stop the coronavirus from spreading, picking up support as well as critics on social media. Among supporters was President Donald Trump, who on Tuesday tweeted that Tesla's San Francisco Bay Area factory should be allowed to open despite health department orders to stay closed except for basic operations. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)
The Latest: S.Korea: Rules stay relaxed despite virus spike

By The Associated Press May. 12, 2020 03:22 AM EDT

This photo released by the Venezuelan Miraflores presidential press office shows President Nicolas Maduro speaking over military equipment that he says was seized during an incursion into Venezuela, during his televised address from Miraflores in Caracas, Venezuela, Monday, May 4, 2020. Maduro said authorities arrested two U.S. citizens among a group of “mercenaries” on Monday, a day after a beach raid purportedly aimed at capturing the leader that Venezuelan authorities say they foiled. (Miraflores press office via AP)
Sources: US investigating ex-Green Beret for Venezuela raid

By Joshua Goodman May. 06, 2020 07:47 PM EDT

FILE - In this Feb. 5, 2020 file photo, U.S. President Donald Trump walks to a meeting in the Oval Office with Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido at the White House in Washington. According to interviews with opponents of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and aspiring freedom fighters, planning for a clandestine cross border incursion from Colombia began in the aftermath of an April 30, 2019 barracks revolt by soldiers who betrayed Maduro and swore loyalty to Guaido, who the U.S. and some 60 other nations recognize as Venezuela’s rightful leader. (AP Photo/ Evan V
Ex-Green Beret led failed attempt to oust Venezuela's Maduro

By Joshua Goodman May. 01, 2020 05:06 PM EDT

FILE - In this Jan. 6, 2020 file photo, the National Assembly stands in Caracas, Venezuela. Opposition lawmakers in Venezuela quietly agreed on the second week of April 2020, to pay themselves a $5,000 a month when they approved special $100 bonuses for doctors and nurses battling the coronavirus, a large payout for a nation where most workers are scraping by on couple of dollars a month, according to people involved in the process. (AP Photo/Andrea Hernandez Briceño, File)
Sources: Guaido allies take slice of first Venezuela budget

By Joshua Goodman Apr. 23, 2020 03:11 PM EDT