Venezuelans

July 13, 2024 | Max Meizlish |

From Rust to Riches: Venezuela’s Sanctions Evasion Strategy

Scrap metal exports have proven a valuable source of dollars for the heavily sanctioned Maduro regime.

January 17, 2023 | Clifford D. May |

The Three Amigos Summit

President Biden doesn’t intend to defend America’s border

October 22, 2022 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

Time to Sanction Iranian Pilots

Last month, the Biden administration added four Iranian cargo planes to its U.S. Department of Commerce blacklist of aircraft involved in export control violations. Among the aircraft is a Boeing 747...

July 18, 2022 | Toby Dershowitz |

Iran Is Testing Us. So Far, We Are Failing

In February, a jet carrying Iran’s minister of the interior, Ahmad Vahidi, landed at Pakistan’s Nur Khan air base and he was not arrested. He should have been. Vahidi, and four other senior...

July 6, 2022 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

Mystery Cargo

Senior Iranian and Venezuelan officials are traveling around the world on a cargo plane. Argentina detained them. But what are they up to?

January 5, 2022 | Clifford D. May |

The new conquistadores

U.S. adversaries are becoming South American hegemons

January 5, 2018 | |

U.S. Sanctions Four More Venezuelan Military Officials

Today, the U.S. Treasury Department announced sanctions on four current or former Venezuelan generals for their involvement in c...

January 3, 2018 | Michaela Frai

Venezuela’s not-so-happy new year

Venezuela has the largest known oil reserves in the world, yet is running out of money. Years of gross negligence and endemic corruption have resulted in economic disaster and a humanitarian cris...

August 2, 2017 |

The U.S. Sanctions Venezuela’s President

On Monday, the U.S. Treasury Department sanctioned Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. The designation came a...

July 21, 2017 | Michael Ledeen |

Trump Administration Still Doesn’t Have an Iran Policy

The Trump administration, for once in harmony with Congress, is going to slap more sanctions on Iran. They stress this has nothing to do with the nuclear deal, but is rather in response to Tehran...

November 16, 2015 | Michael Ledeen |

After Paris, We Need A Strategy To Fight Islamic Jihad

I do not know for sure who masterminded and organized the terrorist assault on Paris, although most evidence points to ISIS. We will probably know a lot more in a few days. Multiple attacks requi...

April 2, 2014 | Clifford D. May |

How the U.S. Put Latin America Up for Grabs

TAMARINDO, COSTA RICA – I’m not about to pretend that spending a few days in this rather funky little surfing village on the Pacific has given me great insights into Latin America&rsq...

March 19, 2014 | Michael Ledeen |

The Big Story — the Global War — Goes Mostly Unreported

The “news” is resolutely out of context.  A subject about which virtually nothing is known–the mystery of the missing airplane–gets saturation “coverage,”...

May 21, 2013 | Michael Ledeen |

Catastrophic Consensus: A Dissent From Spengler and Mead

Spengler (aka David Goldman) is one of my close friends and a long-time guru.  William Russell Mead is just a guru, but I’m an avid fan.  So when I find myself disagreeing with bo...

October 3, 2012 | Victoria Coates Red State

The State of the Chávez-Capriles Race, Or Is Hope Springing in Venezuela?

Unnoticed by many, there is another crucial election taking place in our hemisphere this fall–this Sunday in fact. Fourteen-year incumbent president Hugo Chávez (who re-wro...

September 22, 2010 | |

Why Ahmadinejad Acts the Way He Does at the U.N.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s speeches at the United Nations and his utterances elsewhere in New York are, again, proof that the Marxist-Islamist Molotov cocktail that produced th...

July 23, 2010 | |

Iran’s Global Terrorist Reach

The United States became painfully aware of the threat posed by global jihadism after the terror attacks of September 11, 2001. Until that day, Iranian-backed terrorist networks, such as Hezbolla...

May 7, 2010 | Claudia Rosett Forbes.com

Revaluing Freedom

OSLO -- Too often in recent times Norway has embarrassed itself as a sanctimonious dispenser of devalued Nobel Peace Prizes, having more to do lately with Norway's left-leaning politics than...

June 19, 2008 | Bill Roggio Long War Journal

US designates two Hezbollah operatives in Venezuela as terrorists

 The US Treasury Department has added two Venezuelans to the list of Specially Designated Global Terrorists for their support of Hezbollah. Ghazi Nasr al Din, a Venezuelan diplomat, and Fawz...

September 20, 2005 | American Legion Magazine

Revolutionary Déjà Vu

By: Paul Crespo. Hugo Chavez quotes Fidel Castro when asked what is on the horizon for Venezuela: “A new wave will arrive in Latin America, but in a different form.”...