Abby Martin (34) is an American citizen journalist and presenter, who currently hosts the investigative web series The Empire Files, which, until August 2018, was hosted on Venezuela-based Telesur. In 2018, increasingly stringent sanctions on Venezuela imposed by the Trump administration obstructed wire transfers to contract journalists, thereby impeding production of The Empire Files, and in August 2018, The Empire Files was forced to shut down operations. – Wikipedia