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A cash register drawer holds Bolivars and U.S. currencies at a shop in Caracas, Venezuela, Friday, May 13, 2022. A new tax law approved by the Venezuelan government, that went into effect in March, applies a 3% tax charge on transactions paid in foreign currencies. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

U.S. to ease a few economic sanctions against Venezuela

By Regina Garcia Cano - Associated Press

Pedestrians walk past an out of service National Telephone Company of Venezuela, CANTV, phone booth, in Caracas,Venezuela, Friday, May 13, 2022. A number of Venezuelan state-owned companies, including in the telecommunications sector, will sell up to 10% of their shares starting Monday. President Nicolas Maduro says the companies will be listed in the country's stock exchange and the sale is open to local and foreign investors. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

Venezuela plans stock sale in break from socialist model

By Regina Garcia Cano - Associated Press

Gas prices are displayed at a Mobil gas station in West Hollywood, Calif., Tuesday, March 8, 2022. The average price for a gallon of gasoline in the U.S. hit a record $4.17 on Tuesday as the country prepares to ban Russian oil imports. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Pressure builds on Biden to repay Venezuela’s goodwill moves

By Joshua Goodman and Reginia Garcia Cano - Associated Press

In this Jan. 22, 2021, file photo, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro speaks during a ceremony marking the start of the judicial year at the Supreme Court, in Caracas, Venezuela. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix, File)

Biden warned against cozying-up to socialist Maduro

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Alberto Alfonso turns on a generator to keep oxygen concentrators working as nurse Marlene Cabezasstand stands next to him in the living room of the Lares family apartment in Caracas, Venezuela, Thursday, March 18, 2021. The Lares family is being treated at home for COVID-19. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

Venezuelan COVID patients increasingly seeking in-home care

By JUAN PABLO ARRÁEZ and JORGE RUEDA - Associated Press

Ronaikel Brito walks home with a sack of things he collected from the Pavia garbage dump that he can sell, on the outskirts of in Barquisimeto, Venezuela, Wednesday, March 3, 2021. The 16-year-old began helping his mother Marbelis sift through garbage when he was five years old, following in the steps of his grandmother. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

Venezuelan children pick through garbage for food, valuables

By JUAN PABLO ARRÁEZ - Associated Press

Musicians join pianist, composer and conductor Jose Agustin Sanchez on the bed of an 18-wheeler truck for a musical tour coined a &quot;musical disinfection&quot; in Barquisimeto, Venezuela, Thursday, March 4, 2021. Sanchez, who last year started playing what he calls his &quot;Musical Vaccine&quot; for COVID patients, is now joined by other musicians as they ride through the city playing his original compositions for anybody that wants to listen. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

Mobile orchestra tries to bring cheer to Venezuelan streets

By JUAN PABLO ARRÁEZ - Associated Press

Wearing masks to curb the spread of the new coronavirus, Angels of the Road volunteer paramedics take a boy on a stretcher to their ambulance after he was involved in a motorcycle accident in Caracas, Venezuela, Thursday, Feb. 4, 2021. Despite receiving no paychecks, its roughly 40 paramedics are ready at a moment’s notice to jump onto motorcycles and fire up their single ambulance and race into the streets. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

Volunteer paramedics patrol streets of Venezuela’s capital

By SCOTT SMITH - Associated Press

FILE - In this Aug. 18, 2020 file photo, U.S. Rep. Gregory Meeks, D-N.Y., speaks during a news conference outside the USPS Jamaica station in the Queens borough of New York. Meeks, the new chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee under the Biden administration in 2021, is likely to be a key interlocutor for the incoming administration’s efforts to de-escalate tensions with Venezuela’s socialist government and negotiate an exit to the country’s political stalemate. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

NY Democrat’s ties to Maduro may help Biden unlock stalemate

By JOSHUA GOODMAN - Associated Press

NY Democrat’s ties to Maduro may help Biden unlock stalemate

By JOSHUA GOODMAN - Associated Press

Children receive Christmas presents donated by the volunteer group &quot;Un Juguete, Una Buena Noticia,&quot; or One Toy, One Good News, from the back of a pick-up truck in Caracas, Venezuela, Friday, Dec. 18, 2020. The volunteer group is made up of journalists and other media workers who collect donations and hand out toys to poor children. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

More and more are in need of Christmas charity in Venezuela

By JORGE RUEDA - Associated Press

Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó speaks during an interview with The Associated Press, in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2020. Guaidó launched a risky referendum on Monday, betting some of their prestige on hopes they hope can reignite a campaign to oust President Nicolas Maduro in a nation suffering unprecedented economic and political crises that have spurred millions to flee abroad. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

Venezuela’s Guaidó: Time to revise international sanctions

By FABIOLA SÁNCHEZ and SCOTT SMITH - Associated Press

A government supporter shouts in support of parliamentary candidates representing the Great Patriotic Pole party at a closing campaign rally in Caracas, Venezuela, Thursday, Dec. 3, 2020. Polling places in Venezuela open Sunday to elect members of the National Assembly in a vote championed by President Nicolás Maduro but rejected as a fraud by the nation's most influential opposition politicians. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

Venezuela vote likely to give Congress to Maduro’s party

By SCOTT SMITH - Associated Press

CITGO oil executives Jose Angel Pereira, from left to right, Gustavo Cardenas, Jorge Toledo, Jose Luis Zambrano, Tomeu Vadell and Alirio Jose Zambrano, standing outside the Bolivarian National Intelligence Service, in Caracas, Venezuela. (Posted on Twitter by Jorge Arreaza/Venezuela's Foreign Ministry via AP File)

American oil executives guilty of corruption, Venezuela judge rules

By Scott Smith - Associated Press

Elena Suazo, a kindergarten cafeteria worker, puts on the protective gear she brought from home, outside the entrance to the COVID-19 wing of José Gregorio Hernández Hospital which used to be the emergency room, as she prepares to enter and care for her 76-year-old hospitalized father, in the Catia neighborhood of Caracas, Venezuela, Thursday, Sept. 24, 2020. In this ruined country, the only way to ensure that he received the care he needed was to do it herself, regardless of the dangers to her own health. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

Venezuelans brave COVID wing to bathe, feed sick loved ones

By SCOTT SMITH - Associated Press