All news on the topic: Nicolas Maduro

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Trump’s UAE ties raise fresh questions over Sudan policy
There is a terrible war in Sudan that includes intentionally slaughtering massive numbers of civilians. The group doing the slaughtering is funded by the United Arab Emirates.
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US works with Venezuelan official accused of ordering dissident’s murder
When Rafael Enrique Gámez Salas crossed the Mexican border in late 2024, U.S. Border Patrol agents first thought he was like hundreds of thousands of other Venezuelan migrants fleeing their country’s devastating economic and political crises.
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Cuba approves biggest market reforms since 1959 as communist model reaches breaking point
Cuba’s National Assembly of People’s Power has approved its most sweeping package of market reforms in more than half a century, legalizing private commercial banks, opening an official foreign exchange market, and phasing out the system of universal state subsidies.
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Venezuelan housing program scrutinized after earthquakes brought down residential buildings
As Venezuela faces the aftermath of a pair of earthquakes that killed thousands of people, questions are raised about construction standards of homes built as part of a national program.
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How Hugo Chávez dismantled Venezuela’s state and left a criminal system in its place
Just twenty-three days after being sworn in for the first time as president of the Republic, on February 27, 1999, Hugo Chavez Frias announced the launch of Plan Bolivar 2000.
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Venezuela faces growing backlash as earthquake response fuels anger against Delcy Rodríguez
Venezuela’s revolutionary socialist government has withstood uprisings, international isolation and the removal of its leader Nicolás Maduro by US forces.
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Venezuela faces record $240bn debt as historic restructuring begins
Venezuela is set to reveal a $240bn debt pile, much higher than previously thought, as the country embarks on the biggest sovereign restructuring in history following the US removal of Nicolás Maduro.
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Trump-linked lobbyists rush for Venezuela’s oil after Maduro capture
Since U.S. special forces captured Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro on January 3, companies have made significant plays for Venezuela’s mineral resources.
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Army insider accused of gaming Polymarket with classified intel as regulators test crypto prediction platforms
Federal prosecutors have charged Gannon Ken Van Dyke, an active-duty U.S. Army soldier who the indictment says has served as a U.S. Army Special Forces master sergeant, with allegedly using classified information about a military operation to make more than $400,000 in prediction-market profits.
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Russia challenges US energy embargo as two oil tankers bound for Cuba
Two tankers transporting Russian petroleum products are en route to Cuba, with one nearing the area of a U.S. naval blockade in the Caribbean.
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More than 90 tons of Venezuelan gold moved through Curaçao to Europe amid corruption and mining abuses
The turboprop aircraft was supposed to land in Miami by 4 p.m., early enough for its valuable cargo to continue on to Zurich the same day.
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Newly released files show Francisco D’Agostino visited Jeffrey Epstein’s private island and advised multimillion-dollar PDVSA bond purchases
Newly released documents show businessman Francisco D’Agostino visited Jeffrey Epstein’s private island, and advised his investments in PDVSA, Venezuela’s state oil company.
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How Venezuela under Chavez and Maduro became Iran’s main global ally and a safe haven for Hezbollah
The combined 26 years of rule by Nicolás Maduro and his predecessor Hugo Chávez turned Venezuela into the Islamic Republic of Iran’s main ally outside the Middle East.
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After Maduro’s capture, Dutch government pulls back from U.S. drug war at sea
In response to the American military’s attacks on boats suspected of smuggling narcotics, the Netherlands is stopping joint anti-drug operations with the U.S. outside its own Caribbean territorial waters, the Dutch defense minister told reporters this week.
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US deploys C-17 transport aircraft and AC-130J gunships to UK bases as forces track a sanctioned Russian-flagged oil tanker
The United States is increasing its air force presence in the UK following its operation in Venezuela, which resulted in the capture of President Nicolas Maduro.
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“Good evening, Happy New Year”: detained Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro appears in first footage from a New York jail after US military operation
Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro, who was reportedly detained by US military forces during an operation in Caracas, has been transferred to a detention facility in Brooklyn, New York.
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Trump claims Maduro ‘captured’ as US vows to run Venezuela until power transition
Donald Trump has posted a picture of Venezuelan President Maduro aboard the USS Iwo Jima, asserting that the US will govern the country until a proper transition can occur.
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Trump watched Maduro’s detention in real time from a room at Mar-a-Lago
U.S. President Donald Trump shared details of the American operation in Venezuela, saying in particular that no U.S. service members were killed.
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Donald Trump claims US airstrikes hit Caracas and that Venezuela’s president Nicolas Maduro and his wife were captured and flown out
Donald Trump has claimed President Maduro and his wife have been ’captured’ by the US and ’flown out’ of Venezuela following a series of airstrikes on the capital Caracas.
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Venezuelan fishing communities are trapped between U.S. military strikes at sea and repression by Nicolas Maduro’s security forces
In Venezuela’s downtrodden fishing towns, locals are squeezed between a growing U.S. military presence off the coast and what they describe as a new wave of intimidation from Nicolás Maduro’s repressive regime.
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US troops seize Venezuela-linked oil tanker carrying sanctioned Iranian crude in dramatic helicopter raid
U.S. troops captured an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, significantly intensifying tensions between the Trump administration and Caracas.
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Maduro’s regime accused of “sportswashing” as Venezuela’s new basketball league plays above notorious torture prison El Helicoide
In Venezuela, a new basketball league is holding games in a stadium located directly above a notorious political prison — a stark contrast that critics claim represents a broader attempt to "sportswash" the government’s alarming human rights record.
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US deploys flagship aircraft carrier to Caribbean as Trump escalates pressure on Venezuela
The United States’ flagship aircraft carrier has arrived in the Caribbean, as Donald Trump continues to amass military firepower close to Venezuela.
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Venezuela mobilizes troops as US carrier group enters Caribbean waters
Attendees of the Bolivarian National Militia participate in a military exercise in Naguanagua, Venezuela, amidst escalating tensions with the United States.
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US aircraft carrier deployment marks largest military presence in Latin America since 1989
The US Navy has announced that the USS Gerald R Ford, regarded as the world’s newest and largest aircraft carrier, has entered the area of responsibility of the US Southern Command, which covers Latin America and the Caribbean.
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