Move marks escalation in Maduro pressure campaign as president says US mulling strikes on Venezuelan territory Donald Trump said on Wednesday he had authorized the CIA to carry out covert operations in Venezuela, marking a sharp escalation in his administration’s pressure campaign against Nicolás Maduro’s government. Trump further suggested he was considering strikes on Venezuelan … Read more
The development comes as the U.S. military is drawing up options for President Trump to consider, including possible strikes inside the country.
Nobel peace prize winner María Corina Machado blames Nicolás Maduro’s government for attack in Bogotá In Venezuela’s ‘darkest hours’, will peace prize boost opposition or backfire? An exiled Venezuelan human rights activist and a political consultant have been shot and wounded in an apparently targeted attack in Colombia’s capital. Yendri Omar Velásquez Rodríguez and Luis … Read more
María Corina Machado’s Nobel award puts focus on country but analysts doubt it will produce democratic change In March 2019 as a nationwide blackout plunged Venezuela into darkness, hundreds of citizens huddled on a basketball court in the city of Maracaibo to hear their leader promise to guide them out of the gloom. “We are, … Read more