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January 28, 2026, 06:20 PM - 3 min read
The hearing was Rubio’s first public appearance before Congress since the US raid on Caracas that led to the capture of her predecessor, Nicolás Maduro, on January 3.
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January 26, 2026, 10:58 AM - 2 min read
In a post on X, Alfredo Romero, director of the NGO Foro Penal, stated, “We have identified 104 releases of political prisoners in Venezuela today. We continue to verify other releases from prison. It would be ideal if the government published lists of releases.”
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January 20, 2026, 02:22 PM - 8 min read
Historians are not surprised that oil or any other commodity is playing a role in US policy toward the region. What has taken them aback, though, is the Trump administration’s openness about how much oil is driving its policies toward Venezuela.
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January 12, 2026, 02:53 PM - 7 min read
Historians of the United States and Cuba believe that Washington’s relations with Havana have entered a new phase under the Trump administration. Gone are Barack Obama’s “Cuban Thaw” and Joe Biden’s less-restrictive sanctions. In their places, the Trump administration has apparently adopted a policy of regime change through maximum pressure.
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January 7, 2026, 03:45 PM - 8 min read
It’s also easy to argue it was a blatant and unashamed violation of international law. And it signals a further erosion of what is left of the rules-based international order.
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January 7, 2026, 08:44 AM - 3 min read
US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that Venezuela will be “turning over” 30-50 million barrels of “high quality” sanctioned oil to the United States at its market price
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January 4, 2026, 04:17 PM - 7 min read
Such things used to happen in ancient and medieval times when a foreign aggressor would attack and overrun a kingdom and take the ruler hostage. The same thing has happened in Latin America with Venezuela having been attacked and overrun and its ruler taken prisoner.
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January 4, 2026, 11:52 AM - 2 min read
The ministry also said that the hegemonic acts by the US “seriously violate the international order and Venezuela’s sovereignty and threaten regional peace and security”. It added that China firmly opposes them.
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January 4, 2026, 10:01 AM - 2 min read
“It’s very similar in the sense that we want to help the people in Cuba, but we also want to help the people who were forced out of Cuba and are living in this country,” he said.
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January 1, 2026, 02:59 PM - 3 min read
US Southern Command, which is responsible for American forces operating in Central and South America, announced that forces carried out two sets of consecutive strikes on Tuesday and Wednesday
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January 1, 2026, 08:41 AM - 2 min read
The US continues what it describes as a crackdown on Venezuelan drug cartels, sanctioning four oil firms in the country and blocking four more oil tankers amidst claims they ‘serve’ Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro
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December 21, 2025, 03:16 PM - 2 min read
US forces have seized another Venezuelan oil tanker in the Caribbean waters, confirmed Kristi Noem, Secretary, US Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
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