•Guerra, son of deposed Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro Nicolas Maduro’s congressman son, Guerra, yesterday called for Venezuelans to take to the streets following his father’s ouster by US forces and transfer to a New York jail. “You will see us in the streets, you will see us by people’s sides, you will see us fly […]
•US President Donald Trump (L) and dethroned Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro The African Union (AU) has expressed grave concern over recent developments in Venezuela, including the US capture of President Nicolás Maduro and military strikes in the South American country. In a communiqué released yesterday, the continental body said it was...
•Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian Iran today condemned what it described as an American attack on Venezuela, after Caracas accused the United States of being behind explosions that rocked the capital. The Iranian foreign ministry, in a statement said it “strongly condemns the American military attack on Venezuela and the flagrant violation o...
•The Wasp-class amphibious assault ship USS Iwo Jima (LHD7) US President Donald Trump announced yesterday a blockade of “sanctioned oil vessels” heading to and leaving Venezuela, sharply escalating his pressure campaign against Caracas while issuing new demands for access to the country’s crude. The United States has for months been building a...
•US President Donald Trump The United States has seized a large oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, President Donald Trump said yesterday, further escalating tensions between Washington and Caracas. “We’ve just seized a tanker on the coast of Venezuela, a large tanker, very large — the largest one ever seized, actually,” Trump said at [&hel...
•Late former Governor Alfredo Diaz Venezuela acknowledged yesterday an opposition figure died while in custody, as the Trump administration slammed Caracas as “vile” and the South American country’s army swore in thousands of new soldiers amid mounting US military pressure. Leftist President Nicolas Maduro has called for stepped-up military re...
•An airplane Two Panamanian airlines said yesterday they would suspend flights to Venezuela for two days, joining several other carriers as the United States cranks up military pressure on the country. Copa Airlines and its low-cost subsidiary Wingo said they would halt flights to and from Caracas today and tomorrow after their pilots reported...
•LATAM airline planes on the tarmac at El Dorado International Airport in Bogota Six airlines cancelled flights to Venezuela on Saturday, an industry group said, after the US aviation regulator warned of dangers from “heightened military activity” amid a major buildup of American forces in the region. Spain’s Iberia, Portugal’s TAP, Chile’s L...
•Maria Corina Machado wins the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize The Nobel Peace Prize was today awarded to Venezuela’s opposition leader and democracy activist Maria Corina Machado, the Norwegian Nobel Committee said. Machado was honoured “for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a jus...
•The US Navy comfort hospital ship Authorities in northeastern Venezuela have discovered the bodies of 14 African migrants on a river that connects to the Atlantic Ocean, Interior and Justice Minister Diosdado Cabello said. The decomposing bodies were found on a boat in the northeastern state of Delta Amacuro, according to media reports. “Ther...

