8 h. ago Photos show relatives waiting outside prisons as Venezuela frees a handful of detainees

Relatives of jailed opposition figures, activists and journalists waited outside Venezuelan prisons as the government began releasing a small number of detainees nearly a week after former President Nicolás Maduro was captured by U.S. forces.

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16 h. ago US sends delegation to Venezuela in first step toward restoring relations after Maduro's capture

The United States and Venezuela are exploring the possibility of restoring diplomatic relations

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17 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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18 h. ago Venezuelan currency plunges as economy choked by US blockade

Bolívar has fallen nearly 20% on black market, after US capture of President Maduro

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22 h. ago Trump announces US strikes in Mexico on drug cartels amid surging WW3 fears

President Trump has said the US will begin land strikes against drug cartels in Mexico and declared his 'own morality' is the only thing that can stop him after the capture of Venezuela's Maduro

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22 h. ago After Trump’s attack, we Venezuelans need to know what comes next – authoritarianism or democracy | Jesús Piñero

There is palpable tension: not because anyone trusts the president and the US, but because now there is opportunity for changeJesús Piñero is a historian at the Central University of VenezuelaIn 1936, Venezuelans learned for the first time what it meant to transition towards democracy. While this was not the only period of transition the country would experience (since the process that began in 1958 consolidated a more open and enduring political regime), the transition of 1936 was longer and more complex, resembling the one Venezuelans are now experiencing after the capture of Nicolás Maduro on 3 January 2026.Coromoto Escalona, a 35-year-old woman, was preparing her baby’s feeding bottle when she heard some strange noises in the house. It was two o’clock in the morning. She wondered whether the fridge had broken down, since it sometimes made strange noises when it was damaged. Her eldest daughter, who was scrolling on WhatsApp, shouted from her room: “Mum, they’re bombing us.” The ...

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27 h. ago Trump announces US land strikes on drug cartels in Mexico and chillingly declares his 'own morality' is the only limit on his unchecked global power after Maduro capture

Donald Trump said the US will begin land strikes on drug cartels in Mexico as he warned that the only limit to his power is his own morality.

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29 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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29 h. ago ‘We can’t take it any more’: thousands flee guerrilla clashes on Colombia

Caracas shake-up could intensify violence in Catatumbo in Colombia, an area rich with coca crops, cocaine laboratories and a porous border with VenezuelaAlberto’s eyes shifted nervously. His chin trembled.His slender hands fumbled with a manila folder containing his family’s documents, which he was waiting to present to staff of the Human Rights Ombudsman in the north-eastern Colombian city of Cúcuta, in the hope of receiving humanitarian aid. Continue reading...

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38 h. ago Senate advances war powers resolution to stop Trump from taking further military action in Venezuela

Democratic-led resolution requires US president to seek Congress’s approval to use military against VenezuelaThe US Senate on Thursday advanced a bipartisan war powers resolution to prevent Donald Trump from taking further military action against Venezuela, after he ordered a weekend raid to capture that country’s president, Nicolás Maduro, without giving Congress advance notice.The measure passed with 52 senators in favor and 47 opposed. All Democrats voted for the resolution, as did Republicans Rand Paul, Todd Young, Lisa Murkowski, Josh Hawley and Susan Collins. Continue reading...

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39 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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41 h. ago US Senate advances war powers resolution to stop Trump from taking further military action in Venezuela

Democratic-led resolution requires US president to seek Congress’s approval to use military against VenezuelaThe US Senate on Thursday advanced a bipartisan resolution to prevent Donald Trump from taking further military actions against Venezuela, after he ordered a weekend raid to capture that country’s president, Nicolás Maduro, without giving Congress advance notice.The measure passed with 52 senators in favor and 47 opposed. All Democrats voted for the measure, as did Republicans Rand Paul, Todd Young, Lisa Murkowski, Josh Hawley and Susan Collins. Continue reading...

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43 h. ago Trump predicts he’ll control Venezuela for YEARS and give oil riches to the people as post

TRUMP has said the US will run Venezuela for years and give its oil riches to the people. It comes after the US captured Venezuelan tyrant Nicolas Maduro and vowed to send its oil companies back into the Latin American country. Trump said: “We will rebuild it in a very profitable way. “We’re going to...

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46 h. ago 'We were screaming for help': How Venezuelans in London feel about Maduro's capture

Donald Trump’s operation in Venezuela has shocked the world – but the news was greeted with cautious celebration by exiles from the Maduro regime in London

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48 h. 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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57 h. ago Photos show Venezuelans mourning loved ones killed during US operation to capture Nicolás Maduro

Venezuelans gathered in mourning as the country’s military held a mass funeral in Caracas for dozens of soldiers killed during a U.S. operation to capture former President Nicolás Maduro.

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60 h. ago Captured Nicolas Maduro becomes unlikely fashion icon as grey tracksuit sells out

Amid all the criminal charges being thrown at the Venezuelan president he has garnered some respect from the fashion corners of the world for being... stylish!?

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63 h. 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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64 h. 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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65 h. ago POLL OF THE DAY: Was the US 'morally right' to capture Venezuela's Nicolas Maduro, as Kemi Badenoch claims?

Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch cited her upbringing in military-ruled Nigeria as she backed the raid by the US to snatch Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro.

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