Hugo Chavez

A judge has handed down a 15-year prison sentence to Claudia Diaz, the former nurse of late Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, for taking bribes from a billionaire media mogul to green-light lucrative currency transactions when she served as Venezuela's national treasurer.

COMMENTARY It's apt that Hugo Chávez's death anniversary and the Florida legislature's opening fall the same week. Both evoke assaults on free speech.

The former nurse of the late Hugo Chavez has been found guilty of money laundering in connection to bribes paid by a billionaire media mogul to green light lucrative currency transactions when she served as Venezuela’s national treasurer.

Some political experts say Florida's efforts to usurp local government authority are uncomfortably reminiscent of the late strongman Hugo Chávez's playbook.

Venezuelan exile journalist Francisco Poleo explains why his country's political opposition — and most of the world — refuse to legitimize this Sunday's vote.

COMMENTARY President Trump and his Venezuelan exile enablers are doing just what Venezuela's dictator Maduro and his socialist enablers would be doing.

COMMENTARY Gov. Ron DeSantis' new police bill is the state's latest assault on local government — and more imitation of socialist Venezuela

In one of the most controversial moments of one of America’s most controversial presidencies, Donald Trump this month sent National Guard troops to…

President Trump, when asked about using the Defense Production Act to spur businesses to create much-needed products to fight the coronavirus, compared it to nationalizations in Venezuela.

COMMENTARYAs Bernie Sanders doubles down on his controversial praise for Fidel Castro, I’m thinking instead of another deceased Latin American dictator:…

Last week, the Democratic Super PAC Priorities U.S.A. launched a social media ad campaign that's created a lot of buzz in South Florida.It's called…

COMMENTARYIt took forever. But Democrats finally seem to have found an answer to President Trump’s claim – directed for years now at Latino voters in…