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Venezuelan politician María Corina Machado wins Nobel peace prize
Opponent of Maduro regime receives award and praise for keeping ‘flame of democracy burning’ The Venezuelan opposition politician María Corina Machado has won the Nobel peace prize for her dogged struggle to rescue the South American country from its fate as “a brutal, authoritarian state”. Machado, 58, a conservative often described as Venezuela’s Iron Lady,…
Democrats to force vote to limit Trump war powers after strikes on Venezuelan boats
Claudia Grisales A pair of Senate Democrats is responding to a series of unprecedented U.S. military strikes on alleged drug traffickers at sea ordered by President Trump with a plan to force a Senate vote on a war powers resolution blocking the escalated action by the commander in chief. Sens. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., and Tim…
Hegseth says four killed in US strike on alleged drug boat off Venezuelan coast
Pentagon chief says strike – fourth by US military in recent weeks – targeted boat with ‘substantial amounts’ of drugs The United States carried out a strike against an alleged drug-trafficking boat on Friday that killed four people, US defense secretary Pete Hegseth said, a day after the Trump administration told Congress it was entering…
Stephen Miller takes leading role in strikes on alleged Venezuelan drug boats
Exclusive: Miller’s homeland security council has played a key part in coordinating operations, sources say Stephen Miller, the White House deputy chief of staff, has played a leading role in directing US strikes against suspected Venezuelan drug boats, according to three people familiar with the situation. At times, his role has superseded that of Marco…
Colombia’s Petro urges ‘criminal process’ against Trump for Venezuelan strikes
At UN, Gustavo Petro says ‘poor young people’ died in US strikes on alleged drug trafficking boats off Caribbean coast Colombia’s president Gustavo Petro addressed the UN general assembly Tuesday to call for a “criminal process” to be opened against counterpart Donald Trump for US strikes on alleged drug trafficking boats in the Caribbean. Petro…
Trump says military carried out strike on alleged Venezuelan drug cartel vessel
US president says three men were killed in the strike, adding that it occurred in international waters US politics live – latest updates Donald Trump said on Monday that the United States had carried out a strike on a second Venezuelan boat and killed three alleged terrorists he claimed were transporting drugs, expanding his administration’s…
Republican slams Vance for ‘despicable’ comments on Venezuelan boat strike
Rand Paul blasts ‘thoughtless’ comment after vice-president defends strike against alleged drug traffickers “Killing cartel members who poison our fellow citizens is the highest and best use of our military,” the vice-president said in an X post on Saturday, in defense of Tuesday’s US military strike against a Venezuelan boat in the Caribbean Sea, which…
Trump confirms U.S. strike on alleged Venezuelan drug boat
By NPR’s International Desk Tensions between the U.S. and Venezuela are rising. Days after sending U.S. gunboats to South American waters, President Trump said Tuesday that the U.S. Navy struck a vessel in the southern Caribbean carrying what he described as a Venezuelan drug shipment. Trump told reporters during an Oval Office event that the…
Former Venezuelan intelligence chief pleads guilty to US drug charges
Hugo Carvajal faces narco-terrorism and weapon charges amid accusations he helped lead a drug-trafficking group A former top Venezuelan military intelligence chief has pleaded guilty in a Manhattan federal court to narco-terrorism conspiracy, drug-trafficking and weapons charges, piling further US pressure on the government of Nicolás Maduro. Hugo Armando Carvajal Barrios, AKA “El Pollo” or…
Venezuelan detainees at Texas center spell out SOS with their bodies
Men at Bluebonnet fear deportation to El Salvador under wartime law despite maintaining they do not have gang ties Detainees at the Bluebonnet immigrant detention center in the small city of Anson, Texas, sent the outside world a message this week: SOS. With a Reuters drone flying nearby, 31 men formed the letters in the…
Venezuelan immigrants deported from US to Venezuela via Honduras
In apparent deal between three countries, Venezuelan official said country would resume accepting US deportees A group of Venezuelan immigrants have been deported from the US to Honduras and then sent on to Venezuela, after an apparent deal between the three countries. The flights came one day after a Venezuelan government official announced on social…
Tren de Aragua — all you need to know about the Venezuelan gang
By John Otis BOGOTA, Colombia — The Tren de Aragua, the Venezuelan gang that President Trump is targeting in his latest wave of deportations, formed in a Venezuelan prison but has branched out to become a multinational crime organization that has pulled off brazen attacks in places ranging from New York City to Santiago, Chile.…
Guyana triggers military response after Venezuelan vessel enters its waters
Guyanese president says Venezuelan coastguard patrol approached oil facility in latest incident in longstanding feud between the two nations Guyana’s president has triggered a military response and diplomatic action after a Venezuelan coastguard patrol entered its waters and approached an off-shore oil facility, breaching international maritime agreements. President Irfaan Ali issued a strongly worded statement…
Venezuelan Migrant Sent to Guantánamo Bay Is ‘Not a Criminal,’ Family Pleads
Luis Alberto Castillo arrived in the United States so that he could “give everything to his son,” said his sister. Then, while scrolling on TikTok, she found out he was headed to Guantánamo. Luis Alberto CastilloYajaira Castillo By Julie Turkewitz and Hamed Aleaziz Julie Turkewitz reported from Bogotá, Colombia, and Hamed Aleaziz from Washington. Luis…
Venezuelan opposition candidate accuses Nicolás Maduro of coup
Edmundo González, widely believed to have won July election, gives address after autocrat sworn in for third term The man widely believed to be the real victor of last year’s presidential election in Venezuela has accused Nicolás Maduro of staging a coup and “crowning himself dictator” after the South American autocrat claimed another six years…
Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado ‘kidnapped’, allies say
Leader reportedly ‘violently intercepted’ after sneaking out of hideout to lead protest against authoritarian president Nicolás Maduro Allies of Venezuela’s most influential opposition leader, María Corina Machado, say she has been “kidnapped” from the streets of Caracas by regime officials after sneaking out of her hideout to lead a major protest against the authoritarian president,…
‘I thought I was going to die’: Jailed Venezuelan activist details brutality of prison life
“They have already tortured me and repressed me, but they will not silence me. My voice is the only thing I have left.” He was one of many hundreds of people arrested during protests after the electoral authorities – which are dominated by government loyalists – announced that the incumbent, Nicolás Maduro, had won. The…
Venezuelan opposition leader says son-in-law kidnapped in Caracas
Edmundo González Urrutia, who fled in exile to Spain in September, says son-in-law was seized by ‘hooded men’ Venezuela’s Edmundo González Urrutia, who the opposition says won a July presidential election against incumbent Nicolás Maduro, has said that his son-in-law was seized by “hooded men” in Caracas. “This morning my son-in-law Rafael Tudares was kidnapped,”…
Top Venezuelan pianist urges music world to snub youth orchestra linked to Maduro
Gabriela Montero asks promoters to cut ties with El Sistema on 2025 Europe tour, after alleged theft of election One of Venezuela’s most celebrated musicians, the pianist Gabriela Montero, has called on concert halls and music promoters to cut ties with her country’s world-renowned youth orchestra as a result of Nicolás Maduro’s alleged theft of…