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People protest against U.S. strikes on Venezuela and its capture of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife, in San Salvador, El Salvador, on Jan. 3, 2026. (Photo by Alexander Pena/Xinhua) Alberto Alemanno, a Jean Monnet professor of EU law at HEC Paris, argues that this reality leaves Europe trapped.…

Donald Trump recently gave remarks in Pennsylvania, but the larger issue goes far beyond a single speech. According to this argument, when Trump and the people around him allegedly invaded Venezuela and captured Nicolás Maduro, they crossed a line the United States had respected for nearly a century. Instead of…

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

Image of Nicolás Maduro by RS/via Fotos Publicas, available to use for journalistic, editorial, and online content. Background images of the crack and the Venezuelan flag via Canva Pro. Collage by Global Voices. In the early morning of January 3, 2026, Venezuela lost a president and gained a new, uncertain…

WASHINGTON — Sen. Lindsey Graham gave a categorical answer Tuesday when he was asked whether there’s any way Congress will limit President Donald Trump’s war powers after he ordered an operation to capture Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro. “No,” Graham, R-S.C., told NBC News. The unequivocal response, even from a Trump…

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, were injured as U.S. special forces burst into the space where they were hiding during the audacious military raid to capture Maduro in Caracas, according to a U.S. official and a person familiar with the matter. Maduro and his wife were…

The ornate neoclassical facade of Venezuela's palm tree-lined Miraflores Palace — the seat of power held by Nicolás Maduro for more than a decade — is in stark contrast to where, now deposed, he is currently confined: a drab, warehouse-looking lockup in Brooklyn, New York, saddled with violence and complaints…

President Donald Trump has admitted that former Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro infuriated him by copying his trademark dance moves, an unusual grievance the president aired publicly while addressing Republicans this week. Speaking during a lengthy speech at the Kennedy Center on Tuesday, Trump mocked Maduro, who is now in US…

2026 is a tipping point year, says Ian Bremmer, founder of Eurasia Group. Highlighting the top risks that await the world, he breaks down the US military extraction of Venezuela leader Nicolás Maduro and explains why US President Donald Trump’s embrace of the “Donroe doctrine” kicks off the most uncertain…

Former UFC women’s bantamweight champion Julianna Pena is in full support of the recent United States military action in Venezuela, which led to the capture of the South American country’s President, Nicolas Maduro. Maduro was captured overnight on January 3, following a bombing campaign by the US military in Caracas…