8 h. ago Venezuelan soldiers 'bled and collapsed' after US deployed powerful sonic weapon during dramatic Maduro capture, according to eyewitness account

The United States launched a strike on Venezuela on January 3, capturing President Nicolas Maduro on drug trafficking charges.

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9 h. ago America used a powerful sonic weapon that left Venezuelan soldiers vomiting blood: Harrowing 'new account of Maduro raid'

The United States launched a strike on Venezuela on January 3, capturing President Nicolas Maduro on drug trafficking charges.

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17 h. ago Protest against arrest of Venezuelan President held outside US consulate in Edinburgh

Protesters have gathered outside the US consulate in Edinburgh to demonstrate against the arrest and detention of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.

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25 h. ago Nicaraguan authorities arrest dozens for reportedly supporting Maduro capture

Human rights groups say ‘at least 60 arbitrary arrests’ have occurred for celebrating the US military operationAuthorities in Nicaragua have arrested at least 60 people for reportedly celebrating or expressing support for the capture of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro, a human rights watchdog group and local media outlets said Friday.Nicaraguan president Daniel Ortega and his wife, vice president Rosario Murillo, are staunch allies of Maduro, who was captured by US military personnel in Caracas last Saturday and taken to New York to face trial on drug and weapons charges. Continue reading...

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39 h. ago From Caracas to Minneapolis, the threat is the same – an American president ruling like a global emperor | Jonathan Freedland

Trump’s admission that he recognises no constraint outside his own morality was a horrifying moment of truth. It should galvanise all those who oppose himFor a serial liar, Donald Trump can be bracingly honest. We’ve known about the mendacity for years – consider the 30,573 documented falsehoods from the president’s first term, culminating in the big lie, his claim to have won the 2020 election – but the examples of bracing candour are fresher. This week both began and ended with the US president speaking the shocking truth.At a press conference to celebrate his capture of the Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro, Trump announced that from now on the US would “run” that country, before moving in the very next breath to Venezuela’s oil. There was no pious talk of democracy, scant mention even of the drug trafficking that earlier served as a pretext for military action. Instead, Trump said out loud what had once been a slogan on leftist placards in protest at past US interventions, admi...

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51 h. ago Why Spain’s prime minister has broken ranks in Europe – and dared to confront Trump

Outrage at the US, close ties with Venezuela and mounting domestic challenges have prompted Pedro Sánchez to take a standSpain’s prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, rarely utters the words “Donald Trump” in public. Since the US president took office, Sánchez has typically referred to the US administration and its president without explicitly naming him. This was initially interpreted as a calculation designed to avoid personal confrontation, but even without using Trump’s name, Sánchez has managed to deliver harsher criticism of the US president’s aggression than any of his fellow European leaders.This week, Sánchez did not wait for a joint EU statement to issue judgment on the US’s illegal military intervention to capture the Venezuelan president, Nicolás Maduro: he swiftly joined Latin American countries in condemning it. A few hours later he went even further, saying the operation in Caracas represented “a terrible precedent and a very dangerous one [which] reminds us of past aggressi...

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61 h. ago The Guardian view on the new global disorder: Britain and Europe must find their own path | Editorial

Donald Trump’s Venezuela policy confirms he has no time for rules or process. America’s allies must find new ways to guarantee their own interestsOccasionally, history generates smooth changes from one era to another. More commonly, such shifts occur only gradually and untidily. And sometimes, as the former Downing Street foreign policy adviser John Bew puts it in the New Statesman, history unfolds “in a series of flashes and bangs”. In Caracas last weekend, Donald Trump’s forces did this in spectacular style. In the process, the US brushed aside more of what remains of the so-called rules-based order with which it tried to shape the west after 1945.The capture of Venezuela’s former president Nicolás Maduro has precedents in US policy. But discerning a wider new pattern from the kidnapping is not easy, especially at this early stage. As our columnist Aditya Chakrabortty has argued this week, the abduction can be seen as a assertion of American power, but also as little more than a c...

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64 h. ago US protester arrested after TV interview says she was targeted due to Venezuela trip

Jessica Plichta faces misdemeanor charges, which locals say is a tactic of Grand Rapids, Michigan, police to suppress protestsJessica Plichta was arrested on 3 January after a live interview with a local news station about a Grand Rapids, Michigan, protest against the Trump administration’s seizure of Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela’s president, in an attack with a reported death toll of 100. The clip went immediately viral, racking up millions of views across social media. While the headlines focused on Plichta’s age (22) and that she’s a preschool teacher, Plichta believes the reason for her arrest – seemingly the only one among roughly 200 protesters – went beyond the day’s events.Plichta, who recently co-founded local group Grand Rapids Opponents of War, which helped organize Saturday’s protest, had visited the Venezuelan capital of Caracas just last month, amid the Trump administration’s blockade. She was a part of a delegation to the International People’s Assembly for Sovereignty a...

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68 h. ago With Venezuela, Trump has achieved his dream of making his own 80s action movie

Given his rise during the ego joyride of the 1980s, it’s no shock that Trump’s foreign policy is to emulate that decade’s belligerent cinemaThe box office barnstormer of 2026 arrived early this year. A sleazy banana-republic dictator flooding the American streets with blow. The over-the-border Delta Force extraction squad sent to pluck this schmo out of his impregnable fortress. The bronzed tough-talker who’s firing an RPG up the tailpipe of the international rules-based order – but who gets the job done. Call it: Caracas Thunder.Sounds like a bit of a throwback, you might be thinking. But, judging by his press conference after the US military’s abduction of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro, Donald Trump seemed to have finally achieved his dream of directing his own 80s action movie. Continue reading...

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2 d. ago Inside the Venezuelan refugee shanty towns where hope is dangerous

World affairs editor Sam Kiley reports from ‘Venezuela’ Favela in Cucuta, on the Colombian border where Venezuelans live as refugees and all anyone can think about is Donald Trump’s capture of Nicolas Maduro

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2 d. ago 'Too old' Nicolás Maduro judge, 92, faces claims of sleeping in previous case

The 92-year-old federal judge who's presiding over the historic narcoterrorism case against Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro was previously accused of falling asleep during another major trial

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3 d. ago Venezuela's military buries soldiers slain in US operation to capture Maduro

Venezuela’s military held a mass funeral in Caracas as it began to bury dozens of soldiers slain during the United States' weekend operation to capture former President Nicolás Maduro

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3 d. ago Trump is ‘dictating’ policy to interim leadership of Venezuela after Maduro capture

Venezuela’s interim president maintains she is in charge of the government in Caracas

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3 d. ago Tensions flare as Russian lawmaker accuses US of PIRACY after Trump's forces seize two ships in daring raids: Live updates

US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth claimed that the 'blockade' of sanctioned Venezuelan oil remains in 'full effect' after the US secured a Russian-flagged oil tanker in European waters.

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3 d. ago Trump’s popularity with young men is collapsing due to ‘unnecessary wars,’ new poll shows

The poll found that voters wanted Trump to avoid ‘unnecessary wars’ weeks before he abducted Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro

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3 d. ago Kimmel on Trump’s whitewashing of January 6 anniversary: ‘Don’t give in to this revisionist history’

On the fifth anniversary of the January 6 riots, late-night hosts discuss the Trump administration’s efforts to rewrite history as ‘peaceful protests’Late-night hosts observed the fifth anniversary of the January 6 insurrection and recapped Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro’s first day in a US court. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Donald Trump's unhinged latest: Rewriting history with lies while UK helps capture Venezuela ship

All the latest wild and unhinged moments from Trumpworld - as the UK helps capture a tanker running Russian colours near Scotland...and the White House tells everyone up is down and black is white

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3 d. ago Dithering EU leaders start squabbling among themselves as Trump unleashes chaos: European officials left floundering by Maduro capture and growing threat of Greenland invasion

Blind-sided European leaders have been left floundering by Donald Trump following his capture of Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro and the re-emerging threat of an invasion of Greenland. 

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3 d. ago Rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine happy to share prison with Nicolas Maduro and 'wants to hang out'

Rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine has celebrated sharing a prison with deposed Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro as the musician enters facility in New York City for a short sentence

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3 d. ago Russia responds after US seized two Venezuelan oil tankers in Europe and the Caribbean: Live updates

US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth claimed that the 'blockade' of sanctioned Venezuelan oil remains in 'full effect' after the US secured a Russian-flagged oil tanker in European waters.

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