Venezuela

A spokesperson for the US State Department said "a US military member" had been detained in Venezuela.

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro's plane has been seized by the United States, who claim that the purchase violated US sanctions.

Iran “will maintain the Islamic Republic’s strategic approach toward Latin American countries, particularly Venezuela,” an IRNA report noted.

At stake as Maduro clings to power is further political and economic chaos and international isolation.

When Maduro talks about “Zionists,” he means Jewish caricatures: fat, cigar-smoking, money-counting Jews sitting in dark rooms, plotting how to depose him. 

Maduro said he signed a resolution presented by regulator Conatel which "has decided to take social network X, formerly known as Twitter, out of circulation for 10 days."

"All the communication power of Zionism, who controls all social networks, the satellites, and all the power behind this coup d'état.

Maduro: 'I am not afraid of you, let's go at it.' Musk: 'If I win, he resigns as dictator of Venezuela. If he wins, I give him a free ride to Mars.'

Venezuelans are heading to the polls in a high-stakes election that could change the entire future of a country that has spiraled into economic and political dismay.

Venezuela has been a near-dictatorship for years and has joined a number of anti-western countries, such as Russia, Iran and Turkey, in pushing a global agenda to challenge the US and Western order.