16 h. ago US reportedly warns Maduro ally Diosdado Cabello he could be next

Interior minister told he must back acting president, while Marco Rubio lays out three-point plan for VenezuelaThe Trump administration has reportedly put Venezuela’s hardline interior minister, Diosdado Cabello, on notice that he could be next to fall if he does not support the acting president, Delcy Rodríguez, who has been in power since Nicolás Maduro was seized on Saturday.Reuters reported that US officials were “especially concerned” that Cabello, long seen by many as the regime’s real No 2, could sabotage Washington’s plan to keep key figures from Maduro’s inner circle in place in the name of stability while pursuing a transition and unrestricted access to Venezuela’s oil. Continue reading...

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18 h. ago Trump administration reportedly warns Maduro ally Diosdado Cabello could be next

Washington signals interior minister must back acting president, Delcy Rodríguez, or face Nicolás Maduro’s fateThe Trump administration has reportedly put Venezuela’s hardline interior minister, Diosdado Cabello, on notice that he could be next to fall if he does not support the acting president, Delcy Rodríguez, who has been in power since the dictator, Nicolás Maduro, was seized on Saturday.Reuters reported that US officials are “especially concerned” that Cabello – long seen by many as the regime’s real number two – could sabotage Washington’s plan to keep key figures from Maduro’s inner circle in place in the name of stability while pursuing a transition – and unrestricted access to Venezuela’s oil. Continue reading...

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21 h. ago The ruthless Venezuelan enforcer now in Trump's crosshairs: Maduro loyalist in charge of murderous death squads is warned he faces same fate as dictator if he does not fall in line

The Trump administration has put Venezuela's hardline interior minister on notice that he could be at the top of its target list

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59 h. ago Trump backs fearsome hardliner to 'run' Venezuela amid fears of total anarchy

At least one opposition leader is worried Donald Trump will embolden a continuation of Nicolas Maduro's regime just now under a 'gringo guardianship,' the Washington Post reports.

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3 d. ago Venezuela's new hardline socialist leader Delcy Rodriguez hurls insults at Trump as Rubio sets out US demands and says 'adversaries' cannot control the country's oil

Delcy Rodriguez, Nicolás Maduro's vice president, has been confirmed as the acting president of Venezuela by the country's Supreme Courtfollowing the US' capture of Maduro yesterday.

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3 d. ago Venezuela's new leader Delcy Rodriguez is hardline socialist who kept Maduro in power for years... and she's already making threats against Trump

The Supreme Court of Venezuela confirmed Delcy Rodriguez as Maduro's successor just hours after US forces detained the president and his wife, Cilia Flores on Saturday.

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4 d. ago Today an illegal coup in Venezuela, but where next? Donald Trump talks peace but he is a man of war | Simon Tisdall

The world will be anxious, and rightly so. For a man so bent on a peace prize, Trump appears to revel in conflictThe overthrow and reported capture by invading US forces of Nicolas Maduro, Venezuela’s hardline socialist president, will send a shiver of fear and consternation around the world. The coup is illegal, unprovoked and regionally and globally destabilising. It upends international norms, ignores sovereign territorial rights, and potentially creates an anarchic situation inside Venezuela itself.It is chaos made policy. But this is the world we now live in – the world according to Donald Trump. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago ‘The last bastion before collapse’ – Louvre museum closed as workers begin strike

Crisis-hit Paris institution still reeling from jewel heist in dispute over staffing, renovations and ticket price risesThe crisis-hit Louvre museum in Paris was closed on Monday as workers began a strike to demand urgent renovations and staffing increases, and protested against a rise in ticket prices for most non-EU visitors, including British and American tourists.The world’s most-visited museum – which has had a difficult few months after a jewel heist, a damaging water leak and safety fears over a gallery ceiling – could face days of partial or total closure at one of its busiest times of the year if many of its 2,100-strong workforce vote to continue striking this week. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Louvre museum in Paris faces closure this week as unions call strike

Weeks after jewel heist, world’s most visited museum in dispute over staffing, renovations and ticket price risesTrade unions at the crisis-hit Louvre museum in Paris will begin a strike on Monday to demand urgent renovations and staffing increases, and to protest against a rise in ticket prices for most non-EU visitors, including British and American tourists.The world’s most-visited museum – which has had a difficult few months after a jewel heist, a damaging water leak and safety fears over a gallery ceiling – could face days of partial or total closure at one of its busiest times of the year if many of its 2,100-strong workforce vote to continue striking. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Troubled Louvre museum in Paris faces disruption as unions call strike

Weeks after jewel heist, world’s most visited museum in dispute over staffing, renovations and ticket price risesTrade unions at the crisis-hit Louvre museum in Paris will begin a strike on Monday to demand urgent renovations and staffing increases, and to protest against a rise in ticket prices for most non-EU visitors, including British and American tourists.The world’s most-visited museum – which has had a difficult few months after a jewel heist, a damaging water leak and safety fears over a gallery ceiling – could face days of partial or total closure at one of its busiest times of the year if many of its 2,100-strong workforce vote to continue striking. Continue reading...

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