With 2018 being only the second year in the past century not to see a nation’s government toppled in a coup d’état, a grimly worded new Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) report circulating in the Kremlin today states that 2019 will not be listed among them—and is due to President Trump and his nationalist-populist allies having just launched a coup against the leftist-socialist nation of Venezuela—that... 

Venezuela’s passage of a new law threatening up to 20 years in prison for “inciting hatred” is generating concerns about a growing crackdown on dissent. The powerful, pro-government Constituent Assembly approved the measure Wednesday. Assembly leader Delcy Rodriguez said it represented “a constructive law for peaceful coexistence” and an antidote to “the intolerances, the hatreds that...