<![CDATA[EL PAÍS]]>https://english.elpais.comSat, 04 Apr 2026 11:11:56 +0000en1hourly1<![CDATA[United States rescues pilot of first plane shot down by Iran in war]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-04-03/united-states-rescues-pilot-of-first-plane-shot-down-by-iran-in-war.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2026-04-03/united-states-rescues-pilot-of-first-plane-shot-down-by-iran-in-war.htmlFri, 03 Apr 2026 19:49:35 +0000The United States received its most compelling warning yet on Friday that the war against Iran, despite President Donald Trump’s promises, is far from over and that Tehran remains a dangerous adversary. The Islamic Republic shot down a U.S. F-15 fighter jet with two crew members on board over its territory on Friday. One of the crew members was rescued a few hours later by U.S. helicopters, according to media in Washington and Israel. The whereabouts of the second crew member are still unknown. This is the first time Iran has shot down a U.S. military aircraft over its airspace in nearly five weeks of the conflict. According to The New York Times, a second U.S. aircraft also crashed on Friday in the Persian Gulf region.

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]]>Jaime de León<![CDATA[Trump asks weary public for patience over a war that will end ‘shortly’]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-04-02/trump-asks-weary-public-for-patience-over-a-war-that-is-about-to-end.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2026-04-02/trump-asks-weary-public-for-patience-over-a-war-that-is-about-to-end.htmlThu, 02 Apr 2026 10:46:46 +0000There were no surprises in Donald Trump’s highly anticipated speech about the war against Iran. Nor were there any new attacks on his NATO allies, whom he had lashed out against hours earlier. The “important update” was just that, an update to ask for patience; a slightly more orderly repetition than usual of his statements from recent days: that the conflict is only two or three weeks away from ending, that the military objectives have been achieved, and that the Strait of Hormuz will “naturally” open once hostilities have ceased. Other countries will have to be responsible for guaranteeing transit.

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]]>Alex Brandon<![CDATA[US says oil deliveries to Cuba will be made on a ‘case-by-case basis’]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-03-31/us-says-oil-deliveries-to-cuba-will-be-made-on-a-case-by-case-basis.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2026-03-31/us-says-oil-deliveries-to-cuba-will-be-made-on-a-case-by-case-basis.htmlTue, 31 Mar 2026 10:58:55 +0000The United States will decide on a case-by-case basis whether foreign oil enters Cuba. This was announced Monday by the White House, which asserted that authorizing a Russian oil tanker to deliver fuel to the island does not represent a change in Washington’s policy of maintaining an energy embargo against Havana since January 29.

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]]>Juan Carlos Hernandez<![CDATA[Trump delays his ultimatum to Iran while US military builds up in the Middle East]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-03-27/trump-delays-his-ultimatum-to-iran-while-us-military-builds-up-in-the-middle-east.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2026-03-27/trump-delays-his-ultimatum-to-iran-while-us-military-builds-up-in-the-middle-east.htmlFri, 27 Mar 2026 12:03:42 +0000The large contingent of warships and aircraft that Donald Trump ordered to the Middle East in the weeks leading up to the war against Iran suggested that the U.S. president had an air offensive in mind. The reinforcement of thousands of soldiers now en route or recently mobilized foreshadows a new phase in the conflict: the deployment of troops on Iranian soil. While the Republican president is pressuring Tehran to accept an agreement immediately, the White House is promising, otherwise, to “unleash hell.”

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]]>Alex Brandon<![CDATA[Iran rejects Trump’s 15-point proposal to end the war]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-03-25/iran-rejects-trumps-15-point-proposal-to-end-the-war.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2026-03-25/iran-rejects-trumps-15-point-proposal-to-end-the-war.htmlWed, 25 Mar 2026 18:07:15 +0000Iran on Wednesday rejected U.S. President Donald Trump’s 15-point proposal to end the war, deeming its terms “excessive.” However, it left a glimmer of hope for continued talks as mediating countries race against time to arrange a meeting between representatives of the two adversaries. This meeting, the mediators warn, could be the last chance to prevent a much more bitter escalation of the conflict.

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]]>Wang Haizhou<![CDATA[Trump wants more money and military reinforcements for new phase of Iran war]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-03-20/trump-wants-more-money-and-military-reinforcements-for-new-phase-of-iran-war.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2026-03-20/trump-wants-more-money-and-military-reinforcements-for-new-phase-of-iran-war.htmlFri, 20 Mar 2026 10:03:26 +0000March 20 marks 23 years since the violent explosions in Baghdad that heralded the start of the disastrous invasion of Iraq, one of the endless wars in the Middle East that have consumed thousands of lives and billions of dollars in resources, and which the American public has come to detest. The anniversary coincides with a new war, this time against Iran, and also with no end in sight. The United States is now preparing for a new phase of the conflict, dominated by attacks on the energy sector. The Pentagon has promised that this will not be a perpetual war, but at the same time it will request $200 billion in additional funds to finance it. While awaiting the arrival of reinforcements in the region next week, President Donald Trump is ambiguous about the possibility of further deployments.

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]]>Aaron Schwartz /POOL<![CDATA[Cuba, Donald Trump's next target]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-03-09/cuba-donald-trumps-next-target.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-03-09/cuba-donald-trumps-next-target.htmlMon, 09 Mar 2026 09:47:58 +0000Since the January 3 attack on Venezuela, when Nicolás Maduro was captured, U.S. President Donald Trump has repeatedly insisted that Cuba’s regime is about to fall. He has said that it must reach an agreement with the United States to avoid terrible consequences. Since the beginning of the offensive against Iran, these statements have become daily, making clear that Trump — convinced that his forces are invincible — sees Havana’s government as the next target on his list, once the operation in Iran is declared over.

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]]>Mark Schiefelbein<![CDATA[Does the United States have enough munition for a prolonged war?]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-03-06/does-the-united-states-have-enough-munition-for-a-prolonged-war.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-03-06/does-the-united-states-have-enough-munition-for-a-prolonged-war.htmlFri, 06 Mar 2026 15:08:58 +0000U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth boasted this week about the military advantage that the U.S. and Israel hold in their coordinated offensive against Iran. According to Hegseth, the enemy is having to conserve the munitions it fires. On the first day of the conflict, their launches dropped by 86%. “America is winning decisively,” he said.

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]]>Omid Vahabzadeh<![CDATA[US administration struggles to present coherent narrative on why it went to war with Iran]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-03-04/us-administration-struggles-to-present-coherent-narrative-on-why-it-went-to-war-with-iran.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-03-04/us-administration-struggles-to-present-coherent-narrative-on-why-it-went-to-war-with-iran.htmlWed, 04 Mar 2026 11:07:26 +0000First, it was the need to eliminate Iran’s nuclear program. Then, to overthrow the regime. Later, it was the need to neutralize the missile program. Then, it was the belief that Tehran would attack first and that they had to preempt it. Later, it was the belief that Israel would attack first and Iran would retaliate against American targets. On Tuesday, Donald Trump offered yet another explanation for launching the offensive against the Islamic Republic: that he thought Iran was about to attack; if anything, he says, it was he who drew Israel into the fight.

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]]>Kay Nietfeld<![CDATA[Trump: ‘We’re going to cut off all trade with Spain’]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-03-03/trump-were-going-to-cut-off-all-trade-with-spain.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-03-03/trump-were-going-to-cut-off-all-trade-with-spain.htmlTue, 03 Mar 2026 17:57:05 +0000U.S. President Donald Trump sharply criticized Spain after the Spanish government denied the use of its military bases for U.S. flights connected to a military offensive against Iran. Speaking in the Oval Office alongside German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, Trump called Spain a “terrible” ally and said he had instructed Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to cut all trade ties with the country.

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]]>Mark Schiefelbein<![CDATA[Trump administration makes contradictory statements about its war plans in Iran]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-03-03/trump-administration-makes-contradictory-statements-about-its-war-plans-in-iran.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2026-03-03/trump-administration-makes-contradictory-statements-about-its-war-plans-in-iran.htmlTue, 03 Mar 2026 10:24:28 +0000As the days go by, the goal and expected duration of the offensive against Iran is increasingly unclear. The conflict is expanding across the Middle East, and despite Washington’s enthusiastic pronouncements, seems to be growing ever more entangled. U.S. President Donald Trump, on the one hand, suggests that his objective is regime change, but on the other, he also asserts that the goal is to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. And he is offering increasingly long timeframes. If on Monday he spoke of four or five weeks, now he is warning that this deadline could be extended and added that “we have the capability to go far longer than that.”

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]]>JIM LO SCALZO / POOL<![CDATA[Iran: Trump’s most dangerous gamble]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-03-02/iran-trumps-most-dangerous-bet.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-03-02/iran-trumps-most-dangerous-bet.htmlMon, 02 Mar 2026 10:13:49 +0000By giving the green light to U.S. attacks in Iran, Donald Trump has sought to show, once again, that he is a president of action, willing to use his country’s immense military power to bend any nation that stands in his way. It is a high-stakes gamble that raises numerous questions and could ultimately define his presidency and legacy, as Iraq did for George W. Bush. The first U.S. casualties, in an offensive that is highly unpopular according to the polls, may put him to the test.

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]]>Gideon Markowicz<![CDATA[A war with no end date: The United States unleashes its military might against the Iranian regime]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-03-01/a-war-with-no-end-date-the-united-states-unleashes-its-military-might-against-the-iranian-regime.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2026-03-01/a-war-with-no-end-date-the-united-states-unleashes-its-military-might-against-the-iranian-regime.htmlSun, 01 Mar 2026 04:45:00 +0000The United States’ Operation Epic Fury against Iran will be, according to Donald Trump, a “massive and sustained” campaign in which the Pentagon plans to deploy its greatest military force in the Middle East in nearly a quarter of a century to strike the enemy country’s navy, its missile program, and its own authorities. With this plan, Washington aims to trigger a regime change and has pledged not to spare military efforts. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has described it as ”the most lethal, most complex, and most-precision aerial operation in history.”

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]]>CONTACTO vía Europa Press<![CDATA[The United States and Israel launch joint attack against Iran ]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-02-28/the-united-states-and-israel-launch-joint-attack-against-iran.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2026-02-28/the-united-states-and-israel-launch-joint-attack-against-iran.htmlSat, 28 Feb 2026 23:48:03 +0000Eight months after the last war—that short-lived one—in the region, Israel and the United States launched an extensive and powerful military attack against Iran on Saturday. This is an unprecedented episode in the history of the Middle East, both because it is a joint operation from the outset and because, this time, its stated objective is to overthrow the Ayatollah’s regime: the first bombings, early on Saturday, targeted some 30 regime leaders and military chiefs, according to Israeli media. The most important of these was the supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, whose death was announced by US President Donald Trump in the afternoon. Tehran has neertheless denied this through its official news agency. Netanyahu has said that the operation will last “as long as it takes.” The death toll in Iran exceeds 200, including dozens of girls who were attending classes at a primary school, according to the Red Crescent.

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]]>WANA<![CDATA[Trump urges Iranians to rise up: ‘Now is the time to seize control of your destiny’]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-02-28/trump-urges-iranians-to-rise-up-now-is-the-time-to-seize-control-of-your-destiny.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-02-28/trump-urges-iranians-to-rise-up-now-is-the-time-to-seize-control-of-your-destiny.htmlSat, 28 Feb 2026 11:57:08 +0000U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday directly called on the Iranian people to overthrow their government once the strikes carried out by U.S. and Israeli troops against Iran have concluded. It was an explicit call for regime change — something that had been carefully avoided in the weeks of preparations and negotiations leading up to this joint attack. The appeal has also been repeated by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and by the son of Iran’s last Shah, Reza Pahlavi.

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]]><![CDATA[Trump: ‘Maybe we’ll have a friendly takeover of Cuba’]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-02-27/trump-maybe-well-have-a-friendly-takeover-of-cuba.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-02-27/trump-maybe-well-have-a-friendly-takeover-of-cuba.htmlFri, 27 Feb 2026 19:29:33 +0000Donald Trump has hinted that contacts between Washington and Havana could result in a “friendly takeover” of Cuba by the United States. The U.S. president’s statements come amid tensions over Washington’s blockade on fuel supplies to the island and while, as Trump himself has acknowledged, talks are underway between representatives of the two countries.

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]]>Alex Brandon<![CDATA[US citizen among the four dead on the speedboat intercepted by Cuba]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-02-27/us-citizen-among-the-four-dead-on-the-boat-intercepted-by-cuba.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-02-27/us-citizen-among-the-four-dead-on-the-boat-intercepted-by-cuba.htmlFri, 27 Feb 2026 08:12:34 +0000Two U.S. citizens were among the 10 people aboard the boat from Florida that was captured by the Cuban Coast Guard in a shootout that left four dead and six wounded, the U.S. State Department confirmed. Another person on board held a K-1 visa, which is granted to foreigners who are going to marry U.S. citizens. “Others may be legal permanent residents,” the spokesperson added.

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]]>Ramon Espinosa<![CDATA[Washington’s muted response to the attack on a speedboat in Cuban waters]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-02-27/washingtons-muted-response-to-the-attack-on-a-boat-in-cuban-waters.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-02-27/washingtons-muted-response-to-the-attack-on-a-boat-in-cuban-waters.htmlFri, 27 Feb 2026 09:09:16 +0000The U.S. government was slow to react. Secretary of State Marco Rubio was in the Caribbean when, in those same waters, the Cuban Coast Guard fired on a civilian boat carrying 10 people that had arrived from Florida. The Cuban-American, who had traveled to the Caribbean islands of St. Kitts and Nevis to defend Washington’s agenda at the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) leaders’ summit, had to pause before reporters eager to hear his reaction to the incident in Cuban waters, which left four dead, including a U.S. citizen. “I’m not going to opine on what I don’t yet know,” he said. “But we’re going to find out exactly what happened here, and then we’ll respond accordingly.”

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]]>Jonathan Ernst<![CDATA[Trump confirms US is considering a targeted attack against Iran]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-02-20/trump-confirms-us-is-considering-a-targeted-attack-against-iran.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2026-02-20/trump-confirms-us-is-considering-a-targeted-attack-against-iran.htmlFri, 20 Feb 2026 19:01:31 +0000U.S. President Donald Trump confirmed on Friday that he is considering a targeted attack against Iran to pressure the country into agreeing to a deal on its nuclear program. Speaking at a breakfast with state governors at the White House, he responded to a question about whether he was considering such a move: “I guess I can say I am considering that,” he replied. For its part, Iran insists that, in the event of an attack, it will respond with force.

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]]>Foto: Kevin Lamarque (Reuters)<![CDATA[The United States demands Cuba make ‘dramatic changes very soon’ ]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-02-19/the-united-states-demands-dramatic-changes-very-soon-from-cuba.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-02-19/the-united-states-demands-dramatic-changes-very-soon-from-cuba.htmlThu, 19 Feb 2026 08:00:59 +0000The United States demanded on Wednesday that Cuba undertake “very dramatic changes very soon,” while increasing pressure on an island facing its worst economic crisis in decades. At the same time, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is holding conversations with Raúl Guillermo Rodríguez Castro, grandson of Raúl Castro, the regime’s strongman, according to the U.S. outlet Axios, which claims these talks are taking place outside the Cuban government’s official channels in Havana.

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]]>Alexandre Meneghini<![CDATA[The United States kills 11 people in three new strikes on alleged drug‑running boats in the Caribbean and the Pacific ]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-02-17/the-united-states-kills-11-people-in-three-new-strikes-on-alleged-drugrunning-boats-in-the-caribbean-and-the-pacific.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-02-17/the-united-states-kills-11-people-in-three-new-strikes-on-alleged-drugrunning-boats-in-the-caribbean-and-the-pacific.htmlTue, 17 Feb 2026 20:37:02 +0000U.S. forces have sunk three alleged drug‑running boats in the Caribbean and the Pacific, in attacks that left 11 people dead, according to U.S. Southern Command, which oversees U.S. military operations in Latin America. The strikes came after the aircraft carrier Gerald Ford departed the Caribbean; it had been sent there in October as part of Operation Southern Spear, an anti‑narcotics mission the Trump administration used to pressure Venezuela in the months leading up to the operation that captured president Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, in Caracas on January 3.

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]]>CONTACTO vía Europa Press<![CDATA[David Petraeus, the US general who oversaw the transition in Iraq: ‘In Venezuela there will be innumerable mini-crises’]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-02-16/david-petraeus-the-us-general-who-oversaw-the-transition-in-iraq-in-venezuela-there-will-be-innumerable-mini-crises.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2026-02-16/david-petraeus-the-us-general-who-oversaw-the-transition-in-iraq-in-venezuela-there-will-be-innumerable-mini-crises.htmlMon, 16 Feb 2026 20:40:29 +0000U.S. General David Petraeus (Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York, 73 years old) knows what it means for the United States to oversee a country. He was the architect and commander of Operation Surge, the strategy that significantly increased the U.S. military presence in Iraq in 2007 to counter the growing radical insurgencies. His success earned him a promotion to chief of the Central Command, in charge of U.S. forces in the Middle East. In 2011, Democrat Barack Obama appointed him director of the CIA. In 2016, Republican Donald Trump considered him for Secretary of State in his first term.

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]]>Andrew Kravchenko<![CDATA[Cuba’s alliances are crumbling in Trump’s world]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-02-16/cubas-alliances-are-crumbling-in-trumps-world.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2026-02-16/cubas-alliances-are-crumbling-in-trumps-world.htmlMon, 16 Feb 2026 10:47:07 +0000Every time he’s asked about Cuba, U.S. President Donald Trump gives the same answer: “It looks like it’s ready to fall.” Without Venezuelan oil, it won’t be able to survive, he boasts. He’s not the first occupant of the White House to predict the imminent fall of the government of the Castro brothers and of Miguel Díaz-Canel. Sixty-six years of pressure, the end of the Cold War, 12 U.S. presidents, and all sorts of predictions about the regime’s impossibility of survival precede him. But Castroism, like the dinosaur in Augusto Monterroso’s story, is still there.

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]]>Matt Rourke<![CDATA[El Paso airport closed for nine hours after US detects Mexican cartel drones]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-02-11/el-paso-airport-closed-for-nine-hours-after-us-detects-mexican-cartel-drones.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-02-11/el-paso-airport-closed-for-nine-hours-after-us-detects-mexican-cartel-drones.htmlWed, 11 Feb 2026 17:45:51 +0000The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) abruptly suspended for nine hours on Wednesday all flights departing from or arriving at El Paso International Airport, which is located in Texas, on the border with Mexico. Although no details were initially provided, U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy explained — once air traffic had resumed — that the measure was a response to an incursion of drones belonging to a Mexican cartel into U.S. airspace, which were neutralized. The FAA’s initial notice, issued around midnight, merely cited “special security reasons” and warned that the airspace closure would last 10 days.

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]]>Jose Luis Gonzalez<![CDATA[Netanyahu moves up Washington visit to convince Trump to defend Israel’s interests against Iran]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-02-11/netanyahu-moves-up-washington-visit-to-convince-trump-to-defend-israels-interests-against-iran.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2026-02-11/netanyahu-moves-up-washington-visit-to-convince-trump-to-defend-israels-interests-against-iran.htmlWed, 11 Feb 2026 09:25:49 +0000Without much fanfare from the U.S. or plans for a joint press conference, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is set to meet with U.S. President Donald Trump in Washington this Wednesday, with one main topic on the table: Iran. The meeting was originally scheduled for next week, but Netanyahu insisted on moving it up after Trump’s envoys, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, met in Oman with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi in the first round of talks that both sides have agreed to continue (amid a threatening military buildup in the Middle East), although without specifying a date or location for the next round. Araghchi said at the time that the talks are focusing exclusively on the Iranian nuclear program, but Netanyahu is now flying urgently to Washington to ensure that they also include the other issues that benefit him: limiting Iran’s ballistic missiles and ending Iranian support for militias in the region.

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]]><![CDATA[The midterm elections, the new target of the most authoritarian Trump]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-02-09/the-midterm-elections-the-new-target-of-the-most-authoritarian-trump.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-02-09/the-midterm-elections-the-new-target-of-the-most-authoritarian-trump.htmlMon, 09 Feb 2026 10:03:14 +0000Soccer, as the joke goes, is a game where 11 players compete against 11 players and Germany always wins. The U.S. elections, President Donald Trump believes, are a race between two parties, and he always comes out on top. That’s not a joke.

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]]>CONTACTO vía Europa Press<![CDATA[Trump and Petro conclude White House meeting aimed at repairing bilateral ties ]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-02-03/trump-and-petro-conclude-white-house-meeting-aimed-at-repairing-bilateral-ties.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2026-02-03/trump-and-petro-conclude-white-house-meeting-aimed-at-repairing-bilateral-ties.htmlTue, 03 Feb 2026 18:58:34 +0000After a meeting that lasted more than two hours — which included a walk by U.S. President Donald Trump and Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro through the controversial presidential gallery of the White House — the encounter between the two leaders ended in Washington on Tuesday, shortly after 1 p.m. local time.

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]]><![CDATA[Trump and Petro will try to relaunch bilateral ties at a high-voltage meeting]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-02-03/trump-and-petro-will-try-to-relaunch-bilateral-ties-at-a-high-voltage-meeting.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-02-03/trump-and-petro-will-try-to-relaunch-bilateral-ties-at-a-high-voltage-meeting.htmlTue, 03 Feb 2026 11:20:39 +0000Zohran Mamdani or Volodymyr Zelenskiy? When U.S. President Donald Trump receives his Colombian counterpart, Gustavo Petro, in the Oval Office on Tuesday, will he heap reproaches upon him, as he did with the Ukrainian leader last year? Or will he shower him with praise, as he did with the New York mayor in December after months of mutual insults and criticism?

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]]><![CDATA[Trump declares ‘national emergency’ over Cuba and targets oil suppliers with new tariffs]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-01-30/trump-declares-national-emergency-over-cuba-and-targets-oil-suppliers-with-new-tariffs.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-01-30/trump-declares-national-emergency-over-cuba-and-targets-oil-suppliers-with-new-tariffs.htmlFri, 30 Jan 2026 07:45:52 +0000U.S. President Donald Trump has intensified the pressure against Cuba, targeting the island’s most vulnerable point: its oil supply. After Venezuela halted its shipments, the White House issued an executive order declaring a “national emergency” with respect to Cuba and announcing tariffs on any countries that provide oil to the island. This move could affect Mexico’s ability to resume its own oil shipments to Havana.

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]]>AARON SCHWARTZ / POOL<![CDATA[Two families from Trinidad and Tobago sue the US over the deaths of their relatives in boat strikes]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-01-28/two-families-from-trinidad-and-tobago-sue-the-us-over-the-deaths-of-their-relatives-in-boat-strikes.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-01-28/two-families-from-trinidad-and-tobago-sue-the-us-over-the-deaths-of-their-relatives-in-boat-strikes.htmlWed, 28 Jan 2026 14:20:42 +0000Two families in Trinidad and Tobago have filed a lawsuit against the government in Washington over the deaths of two of their relatives in one of the United States’ attacks against alleged drug-running boats in the Caribbean on October 14. It is the first lawsuit filed in U.S. courts against the anti-drug campaign that Washington used for months to justify its increasingly aggressive pressure on Venezuela’s Chavista regime, a campaign that ultimately culminated in a military operation that captured president Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, in Caracas on January 3.

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]]>Andrea de Silva<![CDATA[Tom Homan, Trump’s pick to calm Minneapolis after death of Alex Pretti]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-01-28/tom-homan-trumps-pick-to-calm-minneapolis-after-death-of-alex-pretti.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-01-28/tom-homan-trumps-pick-to-calm-minneapolis-after-death-of-alex-pretti.htmlWed, 28 Jan 2026 10:18:16 +0000“Tough but fair.” That’s how Donald Trump describes his border czar, Tom Homan, whom he has sent to Minneapolis to take charge of immigration enforcement operations in the Democratic city, amid a wave of anger after Border Patrol agents fatally shot 37-year-old nurse Alex Pretti during a protest in the city on Saturday. Not everyone will agree with the U.S. president’s benevolent description of his official, one of the staunchest defenders of the Republican administration’s most controversial immigration policies. But his posting has been met with widespread relief, following the aggression, showmanship, and slander of the previous head of the operation, Border Patrol Chief Gregory Bovino, under whose command federal agents shot and killed two activists at point-blank range.

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]]>Richard Drew<![CDATA[An emboldened Trump travels to Davos with threat over Greenland looming large]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-01-21/an-emboldened-trump-travels-to-davos-with-threat-over-greenland-looming-large.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2026-01-21/an-emboldened-trump-travels-to-davos-with-threat-over-greenland-looming-large.htmlWed, 21 Jan 2026 09:53:13 +0000A more emboldened Donald Trump, with openly imperialistic intentions, will arrive Wednesday at the Davos Forum to meet with NATO leaders at a summit that is shaping up to be crucial for the future not only of Greenland, but of NATO as a whole. The Republican appears unwilling to compromise or back down on his ambitions to annex the Arctic island, a sovereign territory of the Kingdom of Denmark. Nor is he willing to abandon his aspirations to become the world’s arbiter.

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]]>Aaron Schwartz / POOL<![CDATA[María Corina Machado, on her meeting with Trump: ‘Venezuela will be the best ally of the United States’]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-01-16/maria-corina-machado-on-her-meeting-with-trump-venezuela-will-be-the-best-ally-of-the-united-states.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2026-01-16/maria-corina-machado-on-her-meeting-with-trump-venezuela-will-be-the-best-ally-of-the-united-states.htmlFri, 16 Jan 2026 19:08:00 +0000Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado has insisted that her movement will play a role in Venezuela’s future, and that after an “orderly transition,” her country “will be the best ally the United States has ever had.” Regarding the United States’ support for continuity in Venezuela, as represented by interim president Delcy Rodríguez, Macahdo argued that “it’s not a choice between her and me, but between the cartel and justice. I am just one person within a larger movement.”

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]]>Daniel Torok<![CDATA[The day María Corina Machado gave her Nobel Peace Prize medal to Trump]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-01-16/the-day-maria-corina-machado-gave-her-nobel-peace-prize-medal-to-trump.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-01-16/the-day-maria-corina-machado-gave-her-nobel-peace-prize-medal-to-trump.htmlFri, 16 Jan 2026 09:05:21 +0000A gold-plated medal, weighing 196 grams and measuring 6.6 centimeters in diameter, was the star of the highly anticipated meeting between María Corina Machado and Donald Trump. As she had previously announced, the Venezuelan opposition leader presented her Nobel Peace Prize to the U.S. president in recognition of his assistance in Venezuela. It was the genuine article, not a replica. The gesture was intended to curry favor with the Republican president, who had openly acknowledged his desire to receive the award and who, just the day before, had praised Machado’s main adversary, Venezuela’s acting president Delcy Rodríguez. Trump confirmed that he had accepted the gift, which he described as “a wonderful gesture of mutual respect.”

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]]>Daniel Torok<![CDATA[Greenland willing to ‘cooperate’ with Trump, ‘but that does not mean we want to be owned by the US’]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-01-14/greenland-willing-to-cooperate-with-trump-but-that-does-not-mean-we-want-to-be-owned-by-the-us.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2026-01-14/greenland-willing-to-cooperate-with-trump-but-that-does-not-mean-we-want-to-be-owned-by-the-us.htmlWed, 14 Jan 2026 20:25:40 +0000“We still have fundamental disagreements,” was the blunt summary offered by Danish Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen of the conversation held Wednesday at the White House alongside Greenland’s Foreign Minister Vivian Motzfeldt, U.S. Vice President J. D. Vance, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, to discuss the future of the vast island, which Donald Trump has announced he intends to annex at all costs.

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]]>Mads Claus Rasmussen<![CDATA[Trump encourages protests in Iran: ‘Help is on its way’]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-01-13/trump-encourages-protests-in-iran-help-is-on-its-way.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-01-13/trump-encourages-protests-in-iran-help-is-on-its-way.htmlTue, 13 Jan 2026 17:49:42 +0000Donald Trump is sending increasingly clear signals that he has finished deliberating and is inclined toward some form of U.S. use of force in support of the protesters in Iran.

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]]><![CDATA[Donroe Doctrine: How Trump is enforcing his will ]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-01-12/donroe-doctrine-how-trump-is-enforcing-his-will.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-01-12/donroe-doctrine-how-trump-is-enforcing-his-will.htmlMon, 12 Jan 2026 10:49:21 +0000The scene in the East Room of the White House last Friday was almost like something out of a medieval court. At the center was an emperor — U.S. President Donald Trump — euphoric after his country’s military operation in which U.S. forces captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in Caracas, and surrounded by his top advisers. Around him were executives from the major multinational oil companies, who had come from around the world to pay homage and vie for a piece of Venezuela’s energy sector.

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]]>ALESSANDRO DI MARCO<![CDATA[Stephen Miller, the most radical voice in Trump’s inner circle]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-01-11/stephen-miller-the-most-radical-voice-in-trumps-inner-circle.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-01-11/stephen-miller-the-most-radical-voice-in-trumps-inner-circle.htmlSun, 11 Jan 2026 04:00:00 +0000When Stephen Miller declares that the United States has the right to annex Greenland — or when he talks about anything at all — you have to listen.

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]]>Julia Demaree Nikhinson<![CDATA[US withdraws from 66 multilateral organizations]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-01-08/us-withdraws-from-66-multilateral-organizations.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-01-08/us-withdraws-from-66-multilateral-organizations.htmlThu, 08 Jan 2026 17:14:41 +0000U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday withdrawing the United States from the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) — the basis for international cooperation in the fight against global warming — and the Alliance of Civilizations, created two decades ago following a proposal by Spain, as well as 64 other multilateral organizations, almost half of them linked to the United Nations.

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]]>Molly Riley<![CDATA[Marco Rubio, Trump’s ‘viceroy’ in Venezuela]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-01-07/marco-rubio-trumps-viceroy-in-venezuela.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-01-07/marco-rubio-trumps-viceroy-in-venezuela.htmlWed, 07 Jan 2026 12:23:11 +0000In the photographs released by the White House documenting the monitoring of the U.S. operation against Nicolás Maduro, President Donald Trump is constantly accompanied by a very serious Marco Rubio, his eyes fixed on what appears to be a screen. The secretary of state is Trump’s key figure in foreign policy, already holding the three top diplomatic posts in Washington (he is also national security advisor and administrator of what remains of USAID, the federal development agency). Now he assumes a fourth, and perhaps the riskiest: coordinating the U.S. response in Venezuela.

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]]>J. Scott Applewhite<![CDATA[Intervention in Venezuela reignites Trump’s obsession with Greenland]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-01-07/intervention-in-venezuela-reignites-trumps-obsession-with-greenland.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2026-01-07/intervention-in-venezuela-reignites-trumps-obsession-with-greenland.htmlWed, 07 Jan 2026 10:45:36 +0000“We need Greenland for national security,” Donald Trump declared Sunday upon his return to Washington, a day after his country’s military operation in Venezuela, during which Nicolás Maduro was captured. The immediate success of that attack seems to have fueled the U.S. president’s appetite for further interventions. The Arctic island — an autonomous territory belonging to the Kingdom of Denmark — an obsession he has harbored for years, is emerging as the next target, and members of the Republican administration are already speaking publicly about controlling it. In a statement issued Tuesday, the White House acknowledged that Trump and his team are discussing various options for acquiring Greenland and that resorting to the U.S. military to achieve that end “is always an option.”

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]]>DPA vía Europa Press<![CDATA[Trump clarifies who is ultimately in charge in Venezuela: ‘Me’]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-01-06/trump-clarifies-who-is-ultimately-in-charge-in-venezuela-me.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-01-06/trump-clarifies-who-is-ultimately-in-charge-in-venezuela-me.htmlTue, 06 Jan 2026 09:14:37 +0000U.S. President Donald Trump has confirmed what was already a strong suspicion: there will be no elections in Venezuela over the coming 30 days, as stipulated by Venezuelan law in the event of a forced replacement of the head of state. Instead, the Trump administration will oversee the South American country while it rebuilds the oil sector, a task that the U.S. president estimates will take under 18 months. During that time, a group of his top officials will coordinate the Venezuelan administration. But Trump made it clear who will bear the ultimate responsibility: himself.

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]]>Alex Brandon<![CDATA[Venezuela is foreshadowing the new world order that Trump wants to impose]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-01-05/venezuela-is-foreshadowing-the-new-world-order-that-trump-wants-to-impose.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-01-05/venezuela-is-foreshadowing-the-new-world-order-that-trump-wants-to-impose.htmlMon, 05 Jan 2026 09:57:41 +0000Donald Trump based his presidential campaign on the promise of non-intervention in foreign wars, of not sending U.S. forces back into protracted conflicts like those in Iraq or Afghanistan, and of not getting involved in reconstruction efforts in those countries. Since taking office, he has bombed Houthi positions in Yemen and ISIS positions in Syria, and has attacked Iran and Nigerian territory. But his intervention in Venezuela without congressional authorization, in the style of the coups that Washington perpetrated for decades in Latin America, is—because of its ambition, its scope, and its disregard for international rules—the most representative of the new world order the Republican president wants to impose.

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]]>Molly Riley<![CDATA[Delcy Rodríguez calls for cooperation with US while Trump demands ‘total access’ in Venezuela]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-01-05/delcy-rodriguez-calls-for-cooperation-with-us-while-trump-demands-total-access-in-venezuela.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2026-01-05/delcy-rodriguez-calls-for-cooperation-with-us-while-trump-demands-total-access-in-venezuela.htmlMon, 05 Jan 2026 09:47:18 +0000In her first statement as the new “acting president of Venezuela,” Delcy Rodríguez sent a conciliatory message to the United States that contrasted with the usual belligerent tone used by Chavismo against Washington. Meanwhile, Donald Trump kept up the threats, demanding “total access” to the country’s “oil and to other things” while maintaining that “we’re in charge.”

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]]>@delcyrodriguezv<![CDATA[Maduro jailed in New York after his capture in Caracas]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-01-03/trump-says-maduro-has-been-captured-and-flown-out-of-venezuela.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2026-01-03/trump-says-maduro-has-been-captured-and-flown-out-of-venezuela.htmlSat, 03 Jan 2026 19:56:39 +0000Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, arrived in New York late on Saturday night, local time, and were then transferred to the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn. There they will stand trial on charges of drug trafficking and weapons possession.

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]]><![CDATA[Maduro to be tried in the US for narcoterrorism and corruption]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-01-03/maduro-to-be-tried-in-the-us-for-narcoterrorism-and-corruption.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2026-01-03/maduro-to-be-tried-in-the-us-for-narcoterrorism-and-corruption.htmlSat, 03 Jan 2026 16:36:57 +0000Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro will stand trial in the United States, Attorney General Pam Bondi confirmed Saturday in a social media post. The head of the Justice Department specified that the Chavista leader and his wife, Cilia Flores, face drug trafficking and corruption charges in the Southern District Court of New York. “They will soon face the full wrath of American justice on American soil in American courts,” Bondi wrote shortly after the U.S. announced their capture.

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]]>Maxwell Briceno<![CDATA[Trump’s worldview clashes with a Europe trying to defend itself]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-12-18/trumps-worldview-clashes-with-a-europe-trying-to-defend-itself.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2025-12-18/trumps-worldview-clashes-with-a-europe-trying-to-defend-itself.htmlThu, 18 Dec 2025 14:24:52 +0000A U.S. government that defends the free expression of the far right. That is obsequious to Russia and appeases China. A government for whom the villains are the “soft” liberal democracies of Europe, and an invaded country, Ukraine, is as guilty of its occupation as the aggressor, Moscow. This is not a dystopia created by George Orwell in 1984 or Philip K. Dick in The Man in the High Castle. Nor is it the product of the worst nightmares of former presidents like Franklin D. Roosevelt or Ronald Reagan. It is the administration of President Donald Trump and his vision of foreign policy. A vision in which wealthy countries — or those from which one can profit — are what matter. The rest, in the president’s own words, are “garbage,” like Somalia.

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]]>Kevin Lamarque<![CDATA[Democrats release new photos from the Epstein files showing Donald Trump surrounded by women]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-12-12/democrats-release-new-photos-from-the-epstein-files-showing-donald-trump-surrounded-by-women.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-12-12/democrats-release-new-photos-from-the-epstein-files-showing-donald-trump-surrounded-by-women.htmlFri, 12 Dec 2025 17:48:45 +0000Donald Trump, former president Bill Clinton, billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates, former strategist to the current president Stephen Bannon, and filmmaker Woody Allen. These are some of the public figures who appear in a new series of photographs handed over by Jeffrey Epstein’s heirs, published Friday by Democrats on the House Oversight Committee, ahead of the Justice Department’s legally mandated release of the complete files on the disgraced financier before the end of next week.

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]]><![CDATA[Seizure of Venezuelan oil tanker opens more intense phase in Trump’s campaign against Maduro]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-12-12/seizure-of-venezuelan-oil-tanker-opens-more-intense-phase-in-trumps-campaign-against-maduro.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2025-12-12/seizure-of-venezuelan-oil-tanker-opens-more-intense-phase-in-trumps-campaign-against-maduro.htmlFri, 12 Dec 2025 09:06:24 +0000The United States has entered a new, even more intense phase in its pressure campaign against Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. The target now is crude oil, Caracas’ main source of income. Following the seizure of a tanker carrying Venezuelan oil in waters off the country’s coast—in a spectacular operation that the U.S. government sought to publicize extensively—Washington announced sanctions on Thursday against half a dozen other similar vessels, opening the door to further seizures. In addition, it imposed sanctions on three of the Chavista leader’s nephews.

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]]>2025 PLANET LABS PBC<![CDATA[Trump touts his economic policy as he claims affordability crisis ‘is a hoax’ ]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-12-10/trump-touts-his-economic-policy-as-he-claims-affordability-crisis-is-a-hoax.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-12-10/trump-touts-his-economic-policy-as-he-claims-affordability-crisis-is-a-hoax.htmlWed, 10 Dec 2025 08:56:10 +0000For months, U.S. President Donald Trump has stubbornly denied that prices have skyrocketed during his term. Time and again, he has urged citizens to trust him, not their wallets, when they go to the checkout and find that everything is more expensive. On Tuesday, he attempted to shift his strategy with a speech about the state of the economy and his administration’s measures to make products more affordable.

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]]>Alex Brandon<![CDATA[The US plan for Latin America: The Monroe Doctrine returns, reinterpreted by Trump]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-12-08/the-us-plan-for-latin-america-the-monroe-doctrine-returns-reinterpreted-by-trump.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-12-08/the-us-plan-for-latin-america-the-monroe-doctrine-returns-reinterpreted-by-trump.htmlMon, 08 Dec 2025 11:16:52 +0000The Monroe Doctrine — which in the 19th century proclaimed “America for the Americans,” established the United States as the dominant power in Latin America and paved the way for an era of interventionism in the region — is alive and well. The new U.S. National Security Strategy, released on Friday, specifically declares the return of these principles “to restore American preeminence in the Western Hemisphere.” “This ‘Trump Corollary’ to the Monroe Doctrine is a common-sense and potent restoration of American power and priorities,” it states.

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]]>Ricardo Arduengo<![CDATA[The US enters a new era of interventions in Latin America]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-12-08/the-us-opens-a-new-era-of-interventions-in-latin-america.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-12-08/the-us-opens-a-new-era-of-interventions-in-latin-america.htmlMon, 08 Dec 2025 09:48:09 +0000For decades, Latin America was the so-called backyard of the United States. Now Washington has declared the region its front yard. The Trump administration’s new National Security Strategy, published on Friday, places its main geopolitical focus on the Americas, to the detriment of Europe and the Middle East. Two centuries after its proclamation, the 19th-century Monroe Doctrine — which ushered in an era of Washington interventionism in Latin America directed mostly against leftist governments and sympathizers — is returning, now with Trump-era characteristics. The military campaign around Venezuela is one example. The pressure — even to the point of electoral interference — in favor of like-minded governments and politicians in a region more polarized than ever is another.

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]]>Ricardo Arduengo<![CDATA[Pentagon report says Hegseth risked endangering troops by revealing sensitive information on Signal]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-12-04/pentagon-report-says-hegseth-risked-endangering-troops-by-revealing-sensitive-information-on-signal.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-12-04/pentagon-report-says-hegseth-risked-endangering-troops-by-revealing-sensitive-information-on-signal.htmlThu, 04 Dec 2025 10:22:51 +0000Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is facing a growing number of open fronts and criticisms. A report by the Pentagon’s acting inspector general says he risked endangering troops when he sent messages containing classified information about strikes in Yemen to a social media chat group last spring, in the scandal dubbed “Signalgate.” Meanwhile, the secretary is under scrutiny for a potential war crime in the double attack on an alleged drug-running boat in the Caribbean, in which the follow-up strike killed two survivors of the first attack. The admiral to whom Hegseth attributes the decision to strike again is testifying behind closed doors before Congress this Thursday.

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]]>CONTACTO vía Europa Press<![CDATA[Trump to assess next steps in Venezuela after meeting with advisers]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-12-02/trump-to-assess-next-steps-in-venezuela-after-meeting-with-advisers.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2025-12-02/trump-to-assess-next-steps-in-venezuela-after-meeting-with-advisers.htmlTue, 02 Dec 2025 09:25:17 +0000U.S. President Donald Trump met with his national security team on Monday to discuss the next steps regarding Venezuela, according to the White House, which did not provide details on what was discussed. Tensions have been running high for days over the possibility that the president may order attacks on land targets in the South American country.

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]]>Marco Bello<![CDATA[Marco Rubio’s dual role: A hawk in Venezuela, a dove in Ukraine ]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-11-26/marco-rubios-dual-role-a-hawk-in-venezuela-a-dove-in-ukraine.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-11-26/marco-rubios-dual-role-a-hawk-in-venezuela-a-dove-in-ukraine.htmlWed, 26 Nov 2025 09:35:29 +0000“When I have a problem, I call up Marco. He gets it solved,” Donald Trump boasts about his Secretary of State and National Security Advisor. This week, Marco Rubio is putting that reputation to the test. He is the key man on the two major international fronts the United States is currently engaged in, and with two very different roles: in the negotiations over the war in Ukraine, he took the reins to balance out what was initially a clearly pro-Russian proposal and try to push through a peace plan acceptable to Kyiv; in the standoff with Venezuela, he is one of the driving forces behind the maximum-pressure policy against Nicolás Maduro.

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]]>Nathan Howard<![CDATA[Trump planning a call with Maduro, according to Axios ]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-11-25/trump-planning-a-call-with-maduro-according-to-axios.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-11-25/trump-planning-a-call-with-maduro-according-to-axios.htmlTue, 25 Nov 2025 07:55:48 +0000A call between Donald Trump and Nicolás Maduro? The prospect is on the table, despite the heightened tensions between the United States and Venezuela. The Republican has informed his team of his plans to speak directly with the Venezuelan leader, according to the news website Axios. The report came on the same day that Washington officially designated Maduro as the head of a foreign terrorist organization, amid escalating tensions in the Caribbean.

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]]>Getty<![CDATA[The US declares Maduro a terrorist amid escalating military tensions with Venezuela]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-11-24/the-us-declares-maduro-a-terrorist-amid-escalating-military-tensions-with-venezuela.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2025-11-24/the-us-declares-maduro-a-terrorist-amid-escalating-military-tensions-with-venezuela.htmlMon, 24 Nov 2025 09:15:09 +0000Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and high-ranking members of his government were set to be officially considered by the United States as members of a foreign terrorist organization on Monday, the day the designation becomes effective. Including the so-called Cartel of the Suns on the State Department’s list allows Washington to impose new sanctions against the Chavista regime, as the U.S. claims that Maduro is the head of this cartel. Senior officials in the Trump administration believe the move expands their options for military action within Venezuela.

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]]>US Navy<![CDATA[Trump gives Ukrainian president Thanksgiving deadline to respond to peace plan]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-11-21/trump-gives-ukrainian-president-thanksgiving-deadline-to-respond-to-peace-plan.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2025-11-21/trump-gives-ukrainian-president-thanksgiving-deadline-to-respond-to-peace-plan.htmlFri, 21 Nov 2025 17:11:02 +0000Thursday of next week. That is the deadline set by U.S. President Donald Trump for his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, to respond to a 28-point peace plan drawn up between Washington and Moscow to end the war. Speaking to Fox Radio, the president said that next Thursday, Thanksgiving, would be an “appropriate time” for Kyiv to decide whether to accept the proposal, which would force it to cede territory to Russia, a red line for Ukraine.

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]]>Thomas Peter<![CDATA[‘I am not happy with Mexico’: Trump would be ‘proud’ to launch strikes in neighboring country]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-11-18/i-am-not-happy-with-mexico-trump-would-be-proud-to-launch-strikes-in-neighboring-country.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2025-11-18/i-am-not-happy-with-mexico-trump-would-be-proud-to-launch-strikes-in-neighboring-country.htmlTue, 18 Nov 2025 09:17:21 +0000President Donald Trump — who is engaged in psychological warfare against Venezuela with a massive military contingent in the Caribbean that keeps sinking alleged drug-running boats — on Monday also lashed out at Mexico, the source of most of the fentanyl circulating in the United States. Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office, he asserted that he would be “proud” to order strikes in Mexico, but declined to answer whether he would do so without first consulting the Mexican government.

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]]>WILL OLIVER / POOL<![CDATA[Albert Ramdin, secretary general of the OAS: ‘Latin America is more polarized than it has been in the last 30 years’]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-11-16/albert-ramdin-secretary-general-of-the-oas-latin-america-is-more-polarized-than-it-has-been-in-the-last-30-years.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2025-11-16/albert-ramdin-secretary-general-of-the-oas-latin-america-is-more-polarized-than-it-has-been-in-the-last-30-years.htmlSun, 16 Nov 2025 04:00:00 +0000Behind his desk in his office, the secretary general of the Organization of American States (OAS), Albert Ramdin, 67, has three portraits hanging like guardians: Mahatma Gandhi, champion of nonviolence; Martin Luther King Jr., fighter for civil rights; and Nelson Mandela, advocate of dialogue with one’s enemies. Their example inspires this former Surinamese foreign minister, who has spent most of his career in this multilateral organization. Last May, he succeeded Luis Almagro as the head of the OAS. Ramdin has taken charge of the Pan-American institution at an especially challenging time for the world, for the Americas, and for the OAS itself.

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]]>Jocelyn Augustino<![CDATA[US escalates its campaign against ‘narco-terrorism’ in Latin America with the launch of Operation Southern Spear]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-11-14/us-escalates-its-campaign-against-narco-terrorism-in-latin-america-with-the-launch-of-operation-southern-spear.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-11-14/us-escalates-its-campaign-against-narco-terrorism-in-latin-america-with-the-launch-of-operation-southern-spear.htmlFri, 14 Nov 2025 07:38:50 +0000U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced on Thursday the start of a U.S. military operation to remove “narco-terrorists” from the Western Hemisphere.

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]]><![CDATA[Venezuelans deported to Bukele’s mega-prison reveal torture and other abuses: ‘They said we would only leave in a black bag’]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-11-12/venezuelans-deported-to-bukeles-mega-prison-reveal-torture-and-other-abuses-they-said-we-would-only-leave-in-a-black-bag.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2025-11-12/venezuelans-deported-to-bukeles-mega-prison-reveal-torture-and-other-abuses-they-said-we-would-only-leave-in-a-black-bag.htmlWed, 12 Nov 2025 11:18:31 +0000Photos of Luis missing a front tooth and Daniel’s nose with a visibly deviated septum are among the evidence included in the Human Rights Watch (HRW) report “You Have Arrived in Hell,” released Wednesday. The report reveals torture and other abuses against Venezuelans at the Terrorism Confinement Center (Cecot), President Nayib Bukele’s mega-prison in El Salvador. Also included are images of the scars on Mateo’s hand and Carlos’s chest, the result of being shot at close range with rubber bullets while detained in cells at this prison.

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]]>PRESIDENCIA DE EL SALVADOR<![CDATA[Promises made, promises kept? Between illusion and reality, Trump forges ahead with his authoritarian project ]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-11-08/promises-made-promises-kept-between-illusion-and-reality-trump-forges-ahead-with-his-authoritarian-project.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-11-08/promises-made-promises-kept-between-illusion-and-reality-trump-forges-ahead-with-his-authoritarian-project.htmlSat, 08 Nov 2025 04:00:00 +0000“Promises made, promises kept.” Donald Trump is not the first politician to use this simple slogan — Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton did it before him — but perhaps he is the one who has repeated it most insistently since his election victory last November, a triumph that on Wednesday marked its first anniversary amid the longest government shutdown in U.S. history, brought on by the standoff between Democrats and Republicans over funding the administration. It is one of his ways of selling the idea — often stretching the truth — that he is fulfilling the agenda that brought him back to power in January.

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]]>Luis M. Alvarez<![CDATA[Election results give new hope to US Democrats: they regain votes among Latinos and in swing states]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-11-06/election-results-give-new-hope-to-us-democrats-they-regain-votes-among-latinos-and-in-swing-states.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-11-06/election-results-give-new-hope-to-us-democrats-they-regain-votes-among-latinos-and-in-swing-states.htmlThu, 06 Nov 2025 10:21:01 +0000The Democrats’ time in the desert is over. After sweeping every single one of Tuesday’s major elections — from one end of the country to the other and by wide margins — the opposition has finally put its long mourning period following defeat in the presidential election behind it, and is winning back voters in communities that turned their backs on them a year ago. Now preparations begin for the next battle, the midterm elections that will decide control of Congress, with a feeling that has been absent among Democrats since November 2024: enthusiasm.

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]]>JIM LO SCALZO<![CDATA[Voters cast protest vote against Trump in Virginia and New Jersey]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-11-05/voters-cast-protest-vote-against-trump-in-virginia-and-new-jersey.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-11-05/voters-cast-protest-vote-against-trump-in-virginia-and-new-jersey.htmlWed, 05 Nov 2025 08:03:53 +0000It was a clean sweep. The Democrats won in all the major elections held this Tuesday in the United States. Democratic candidates Abigail Spanberger and Mikie Sherrill decisively triumphed in their races in Virginia and New Jersey, respectively — the two states where gubernatorial contests were held on Tuesday. The elections were interpreted as an initial referendum on Donald Trump’s first 10 months in the White House, as well as a test to determine whether the Democrats have a chance of victory in next year’s midterm elections, when control of the U.S. Congress will be at stake.

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]]>Jay Paul<![CDATA[The demolition of the White House’s East Wing, a metaphor for Trump’s first year in office]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-11-04/the-demolition-of-the-white-houses-east-wing-a-metaphor-for-trumps-first-year-in-office.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-11-04/the-demolition-of-the-white-houses-east-wing-a-metaphor-for-trumps-first-year-in-office.htmlTue, 04 Nov 2025 13:26:43 +0000“The White House is many things in one […] No other residence reflects so meaningfully the struggles and aspirations of the American people.” That is how a 1961 memo begins — one treasured by Jacqueline Kennedy, perhaps the resident who did the most to turn 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue into a living museum. “Everything in the White House must have a reason for being there,” the charismatic First Lady once said.

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]]>Jacquelyn Martin<![CDATA[Trump believes Maduro’s days as Venezuela’s leader are numbered]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-11-03/trump-believes-maduros-days-as-venezuelas-leader-are-numbered.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2025-11-03/trump-believes-maduros-days-as-venezuelas-leader-are-numbered.htmlMon, 03 Nov 2025 09:07:39 +0000U.S. President Donald Trump believes Nicolás Maduro’s days as Venezuelan leader are numbered, but he also “doubts” that his country will go to war with the Caribbean nation. He made these remarks in an interview with CBS’s 60 Minutes, recorded last Friday and broadcast on Sunday, in which the anchor questioned him about the situation between the two countries and the U.S. military presence in the region.

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]]>Manuel Balce Ceneta<![CDATA[Trump orders the Pentagon to conduct nuclear weapons tests ]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-10-30/trump-orders-the-pentagon-to-conduct-nuclear-weapons-tests.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-10-30/trump-orders-the-pentagon-to-conduct-nuclear-weapons-tests.htmlThu, 30 Oct 2025 11:21:34 +0000Donald Trump has introduced a new element of concern in relations with Russia and China: the nuclear factor. In a confusing message on social media, just minutes before beginning his meeting in South Korea with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday to discuss trade, the U.S. leader announced that he had ordered the Pentagon to conduct nuclear weapons tests “immediately.” If these go ahead, they would be the first since 1992.

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]]>Evelyn Hockstein<![CDATA[US ramps up its campaign against drug trafficking and sends an aircraft carrier to the Caribbean]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-10-24/us-announces-new-attack-on-alleged-drug-boat-in-the-caribbean-killing-six.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-10-24/us-announces-new-attack-on-alleged-drug-boat-in-the-caribbean-killing-six.htmlFri, 24 Oct 2025 18:36:25 +0000The United States’ campaign of extrajudicial military attacks against alleged drug trafficking speedboats continues unabated. On Friday, the Pentagon announced a new strike against one of these vessels in international waters in the Caribbean, in which six people were killed. It is the first such strike in the Caribbean since Washington confirmed two attacks in the Pacific on Wednesday, which also brought the U.S. military campaign against the cartels in the Americas to those waters.

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]]>WILL OLIVER / POOL<![CDATA[Trump: ‘Sheinbaum is a very brave woman, but Mexico is run by the cartels’]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-10-24/trump-sheinbaum-is-a-very-brave-woman-but-mexico-is-run-by-the-cartels.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2025-10-24/trump-sheinbaum-is-a-very-brave-woman-but-mexico-is-run-by-the-cartels.htmlFri, 24 Oct 2025 08:35:36 +0000U.S. President Donald Trump is expanding his criticism of the dominance he claims drug trafficking exerts in Latin American countries. After reiterating that land action (presumably in Venezuela) could be imminent, and once again insulting the president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro—his most recent target—on Thursday it was Mexico’s turn. Although he expressed his “respect” for President Claudia Sheinbaum, he immediately accused the country of being run by drug cartels. It is an accusation he has been making since the beginning of his second term, but which seemed to have been shelved in recent months.

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]]>Evan Vucci<![CDATA[Trump cools on supplying Ukraine with Tomahawk missiles sought by Zelenskiy]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-10-17/trump-seeks-peace-in-ukraine-after-claiming-victory-in-gaza-ceasefire.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-10-17/trump-seeks-peace-in-ukraine-after-claiming-victory-in-gaza-ceasefire.htmlFri, 17 Oct 2025 19:15:31 +0000During a meeting at the White House with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, U.S. President Donald Trump expressed his desire to end the war in Ukraine without having to supply long-range Tomahawk missiles, a controversial request as it would give Ukraine the option of striking targets at greater distances, such as on Russian territory. “We need Tomahawks for the United States of America, too,” Trump said. “We have a lot of them, but we need them. I mean, we can’t deplete our country.”

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]]>Alex Brandon<![CDATA[Former Trump adviser John Bolton pleads not guilty to 18 counts of mishandling classified information]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-10-17/former-trump-adviser-john-bolton-pleads-not-guilty-to-18-counts-of-mishandling-classified-information.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-10-17/former-trump-adviser-john-bolton-pleads-not-guilty-to-18-counts-of-mishandling-classified-information.htmlFri, 17 Oct 2025 17:58:17 +0000Former National Security Adviser John Bolton pleaded not guilty Friday in a Greenbelt, Maryland, court to 18 counts of possessing and transmitting information affecting the security of the United States in violation of the Espionage Act.

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]]>Leah Millis<![CDATA[Trump makes aid to Milei conditional on the outcome of Argentina’s legislative elections]]>https://english.elpais.com/economy-and-business/2025-10-15/trump-makes-aid-to-milei-conditional-on-the-outcome-of-argentinas-legislative-elections.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/economy-and-business/2025-10-15/trump-makes-aid-to-milei-conditional-on-the-outcome-of-argentinas-legislative-elections.htmlWed, 15 Oct 2025 10:05:38 +0000On Tuesday, U.S. President Donald Trump emphasized his support for Argentine President Javier Milei and made his backing for the country conditional on the populist leader’s victory in the October 26 legislative elections. These statements came during a meeting between Trump and Milei in the West Wing of the White House, scheduled after Washington promised a $20 billion currency swap to shore up the South American country’s economy.

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]]>Alex Brandon<![CDATA[Trump says six killed in new strike against alleged drug boat off Venezuela]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-10-14/trump-says-six-killed-in-new-strike-against-alleged-drug-boat-off-venezuela.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-10-14/trump-says-six-killed-in-new-strike-against-alleged-drug-boat-off-venezuela.htmlTue, 14 Oct 2025 18:37:21 +0000U.S. President Donald Trump announced on Tuesday a new strike by U.S. forces against a boat in the Caribbean that, according to the Republican, was carrying drugs. At least six people have died in the attack.

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]]><![CDATA[Stephen Breyer, former Supreme Court justice: ‘Every judge is aware of the climate of the year’ ]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-10-12/stephen-breyer-former-supreme-court-justice-every-judge-is-aware-of-the-climate-of-the-year.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-10-12/stephen-breyer-former-supreme-court-justice-every-judge-is-aware-of-the-climate-of-the-year.htmlSun, 12 Oct 2025 16:59:01 +0000Retired Supreme Court judge Stephen Breyer carries around a worn copy of the Constitution in his pocket. “Somebody might ask me a question. I don’t know the answer, I’ll look it up,” he says. Never mind that he stepped down in 2022, 28 years after Bill Clinton appointed him as one of the nine magistrates of the Supreme Court. Once a judge, always a judge. And this Boston son, former collaborator of Senator Ted Kennedy, is clear on his continuing responsibilities: at 87 years of age, he is still a teacher, giving talks to young people on the importance of the juridical system as a pillar of democracy.

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]]>Fred Schilling<![CDATA[Chicago, the heart of the rebellion of Democratic cities against Trump]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-10-12/chicago-the-heart-of-the-rebellion-of-democratic-cities-against-trump.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-10-12/chicago-the-heart-of-the-rebellion-of-democratic-cities-against-trump.htmlSun, 12 Oct 2025 16:27:13 +0000The grim Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention center at the entrance to Broadview, a small, predominantly African American town about 15 miles southwest of Chicago, has its entrances blocked by concrete blocks and metal fences. Dozens of police vehicles surround it. This huge dark brick block, where detainees report deplorable conditions and where National Guard soldiers were deployed on Thursday, is the focus of protests in the metropolis against Donald Trump’s policy of mass deportations. These protests have made it a symbol of resistance by Democratic cities against the president’s attempts to control them with troops.

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]]>CRISTOBAL HERRERA-ULASHKEVICH<![CDATA[Trump’s battle with Democratic cities intensifies as National Guard arrives in Chicago]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-10-07/trumps-battle-with-democratic-cities-intensifies-as-national-guard-arrives-in-chicago.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-10-07/trumps-battle-with-democratic-cities-intensifies-as-national-guard-arrives-in-chicago.htmlTue, 07 Oct 2025 19:01:49 +0000The Texas National Guard has been in Chicago since Tuesday, despite the staunch opposition of local Democratic authorities, led by Illinois Governor J. B. Pritzker. This marks a new escalation in the confrontation between Democratic-run cities and U.S. President Donald Trump, who has ordered troops deployed to the streets and even spoke of the prospect of using the Insurrection Act.

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]]>Mike Segar<![CDATA[Trump considers invoking Insurrection Act to send troops to Portland]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-10-07/trump-considers-invoking-insurrection-act-to-send-troops-to-portland.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-10-07/trump-considers-invoking-insurrection-act-to-send-troops-to-portland.htmlTue, 07 Oct 2025 09:04:29 +0000U.S. President Donald Trump is considering invoking the Insurrection Act to deploy troops to Democratic-run cities if judges bar him from activating the National Guard, as he intends to do to provide security on the streets of Chicago and Portland, he said Monday, as tensions escalate over the deployment orders.

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]]>Carlos Barria<![CDATA[Trump anticipates a new phase of the US anti-drug operation in the Caribbean]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-10-06/trump-anticipates-a-new-phase-of-the-us-anti-drug-operation-in-the-caribbean.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-10-06/trump-anticipates-a-new-phase-of-the-us-anti-drug-operation-in-the-caribbean.htmlMon, 06 Oct 2025 17:59:23 +0000The U.S. government is entrenched in its defense of attacks against alleged drug boats in international waters in the Caribbean, and has threatened to move to a new phase of the operation. This Sunday, Trump boasted about these operations, spoke without giving details about a new attack that apparently took place on Saturday, and stated that “they’re not coming in by sea anymore, so now we’ll have to start looking about the land because they’ll be forced to go by land.”

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]]>Tommy Gilligan<![CDATA[Trump gives Hamas until Sunday to respond to his Gaza peace plan]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-10-03/trump-gives-hamas-until-sunday-to-respond-to-his-gaza-peace-plan.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-10-03/trump-gives-hamas-until-sunday-to-respond-to-his-gaza-peace-plan.htmlFri, 03 Oct 2025 16:37:17 +0000U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday set a countdown for Hamas to accept Washington’s 20‑point peace plan for Gaza, which was made public last Monday and already has Israel’s approval. In a message on Truth Social, his social network, the Republican gave the Palestinian fundamentalist group an ultimatum that expires at 6:00 p.m. on Sunday, Washington time, to respond. He threatened them with “all hell” if they do not accept the proposal. “There will be peace in the Middle East one way or the other,” he wrote.

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]]>Jae C. Hong<![CDATA[Trump decides that the United States has entered into war with the drug cartels]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-10-02/trump-decides-that-the-united-states-has-entered-into-war-with-the-drug-cartels.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-10-02/trump-decides-that-the-united-states-has-entered-into-war-with-the-drug-cartels.htmlThu, 02 Oct 2025 19:29:33 +0000U.S. President Donald Trump has decided that his country has entered into a “non-international” war with drug cartels and has labeled its members “unlawful combatants.” This is stated in a notice sent to Congress and leaked to several U.S. media outlets.

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]]>Ken Cedeno<![CDATA[Trump presents Gaza plan that calls for Hamas disarmament and a ‘board of peace’ supervised by US president]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-09-29/trump-very-confident-of-reaching-agreement-in-principle-on-gaza-peace-deal-in-key-meeting-with-netanyahu.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2025-09-29/trump-very-confident-of-reaching-agreement-in-principle-on-gaza-peace-deal-in-key-meeting-with-netanyahu.htmlMon, 29 Sep 2025 20:43:29 +0000Will a U.S. peace plan for Gaza become a reality? It is still unclear, pending a response from Hamas, which would have to surrender its weapons and, just hours earlier, claimed it had not even received a copy of the document in question. But one of the unknowns surrounding the project has been cleared up: following Monday’s meeting between Benjamin Netanyahu and Donald Trump, Israel says it accepts the 20-point proposal. And the Republican has given his ally permission to continue the offensive if the Palestinian party-militia rejects the offer.

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]]>Jonathan Ernst<![CDATA[Trump’s Justice Department indicts former FBI director James Comey]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-09-26/trumps-justice-department-indicts-former-fbi-director-james-comey.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-09-26/trumps-justice-department-indicts-former-fbi-director-james-comey.htmlFri, 26 Sep 2025 07:16:12 +0000U.S. President Donald Trump has finally achieved what he wanted. Former FBI director James Comey — who Trump considers one of his worst enemies — has been charged with making false statements and obstruction of justice, the president announced on social media. The charges were filed less than a week after Trump issued an extraordinary public reprimand of Attorney General Pam Bondi to force the prosecution of his most detested adversaries. If found guilty, Comey faces up to five years in prison on those charges.

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]]>Andrew Harnik<![CDATA[Trump announces he will deploy the National Guard to Memphis to combat crime]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-09-12/trump-announces-he-will-deploy-the-national-guard-to-memphis-to-combat-crime.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-09-12/trump-announces-he-will-deploy-the-national-guard-to-memphis-to-combat-crime.htmlFri, 12 Sep 2025 19:28:22 +0000Donald Trump is once again preparing to send the National Guard into a Democrat-governed territory under the argument of fighting crime —after doing so in Washington and Los Angeles, and dispatching immigration agents to Chicago

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]]>Daniel Becerril<![CDATA[A very conservative Supreme Court holds the key to Trump’s agenda]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-09-08/a-very-conservative-supreme-court-holds-the-key-to-trumps-agenda.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-09-08/a-very-conservative-supreme-court-holds-the-key-to-trumps-agenda.htmlMon, 08 Sep 2025 08:44:12 +0000A federal appeals court ruling on Friday overturning the cancellation of protected status for millions of Venezuelans capped 10 days of legal setbacks for the Donald Trump administration and its accumulation of power in the United States. Court after court has blocked key measures of his agenda, from global tariffs to immigration policy, including the freeze on funds for Harvard University. Given the administration’s appeals, either already filed or promised, the conservative Supreme Court will hold the key to whether the Republican president’s agenda is legally valid and Trump can continue accumulating power. Its decisions will have consequences for decades to come.

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]]>Brian Snyder<![CDATA[Trump ends four uninterrupted years of job creation in the US]]>https://english.elpais.com/economy-and-business/2025-09-05/trump-ends-four-uninterrupted-years-of-job-creation-in-the-us.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/economy-and-business/2025-09-05/trump-ends-four-uninterrupted-years-of-job-creation-in-the-us.htmlFri, 05 Sep 2025 17:18:15 +0000Donald Trump returned to the White House promising to boost job creation. So far this hasn’t happened: the labor market is weakening and, for the first time since the Covid pandemic, is beginning to show negative job growth. According to indicators released on Friday, 22,000 non-farming jobs were added in August, far lower than the 76,000 new positions economists had been expecting to see.

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]]>Yuki Iwamura<![CDATA[Washington sues the Trump administration over National Guard deployment]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-09-04/washington-sues-the-trump-administration-over-national-guard-deployment.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-09-04/washington-sues-the-trump-administration-over-national-guard-deployment.htmlThu, 04 Sep 2025 19:30:18 +0000Washington, D.C. has filed a lawsuit against the federal government over the deployment of the National Guard in its streets, ordered last month by U.S. President Donald Trump. Since August 11, thousands of local Guardsmen and troops from seven other states have been patrolling the capital’s main monuments and subway system, among other areas, to confront what the president has described as a wave of crime serious enough to warrant a state of emergency. Official figures, however, suggest otherwise.

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]]>CONTACTO vía Europa Press<![CDATA[Lisa Cook under federal investigation for mortgage fraud as pressure mounts on the Fed]]>https://english.elpais.com/economy-and-business/2025-09-04/lisa-cook-under-federal-investigation-for-mortgage-fraud-as-pressure-mounts-on-the-fed.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/economy-and-business/2025-09-04/lisa-cook-under-federal-investigation-for-mortgage-fraud-as-pressure-mounts-on-the-fed.htmlThu, 04 Sep 2025 19:00:07 +0000The U.S. Department of Justice opened a criminal investigation on Thursday to determine whether Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook committed mortgage fraud, marking another setback for the institution, which has been at the center of Donald Trump’s attempts to influence its interest rate decisions.

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]]>Jonathan Ernst<![CDATA[US kills 11 people in strike against alleged drug boat from Venezuela]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-09-02/trump-says-us-forces-shot-out-boat-carrying-drugs-from-venezuela.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-09-02/trump-says-us-forces-shot-out-boat-carrying-drugs-from-venezuela.htmlWed, 03 Sep 2025 07:15:51 +0000Donald Trump confirmed Tuesday that the U.S. carried out an attack in international waters in the southern Caribbean against a vessel that had departed from Venezuela, and which the U.S. government accused of transporting a shipment of drugs to its territory. Eleven people, the occupants of the boat, were killed in the operation, according to the U.S. president.

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]]>Román Ríos<![CDATA[Judge rules Trump’s use of National Guard in Los Angeles is illegal]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-09-02/judge-rules-trumps-use-of-national-guard-in-los-angeles-is-illegal.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-09-02/judge-rules-trumps-use-of-national-guard-in-los-angeles-is-illegal.htmlTue, 02 Sep 2025 14:50:58 +0000Donald Trump is facing another legal setback. A federal court ruled on Tuesday that the deployment of National Guard troops in Los Angeles, ordered by the U.S. president for law enforcement duties, was illegal.

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]]>Eric Thayer<![CDATA[Donald Trump withdraws Secret Service protection from Kamala Harris]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-08-29/donald-trump-withdraws-secret-service-protection-from-kamala-harris.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-08-29/donald-trump-withdraws-secret-service-protection-from-kamala-harris.htmlFri, 29 Aug 2025 16:56:30 +0000Donald Trump has adopted another measure against one of his political opponents: The U.S. president has canceled the Secret Service detail assigned to former vice president Kamala Harris, according to a letter leaked to several U.S. media outlets. “You are hereby authorized to discontinue any security-related procedures previously authorized by Executive Memorandum, beyond those required by law, for the following individual, effective September 1, 2025: Former Vice President Kamala D. Harris,” reads the memorandum sent by the White House to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, dated Thursday.

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]]>SHAWN THEW<![CDATA[Fed Governor Lisa Cook sues Trump over attempt to fire her]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-08-28/fed-governor-lisa-cook-sues-trump-over-attempt-to-fire-her.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-08-28/fed-governor-lisa-cook-sues-trump-over-attempt-to-fire-her.htmlThu, 28 Aug 2025 14:38:25 +0000Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook filed a lawsuit this Thursday against U.S. President Donald Trump for attempting to remove her from office. Cook, appointed by the Biden administration, argues that the Republican lacks the authority to dismiss her and has asked the courts to block the action, in a case that promises a fierce legal battle over the central bank’s independence.

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]]>Mark Schiefelbein<![CDATA[Police search for motive behind Minneapolis school shooting that killed two children and injured 17 people]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-08-27/at-least-two-children-killed-in-minneapolis-school-shooting.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-08-27/at-least-two-children-killed-in-minneapolis-school-shooting.htmlThu, 28 Aug 2025 06:51:01 +0000Authorities are searching for a motive behind a school shooting in Minneapolis that killed two children, aged eight and 10, and injured 17 more people. The attack took place as the victims were attending a morning Mass at the Annunciation Catholic School church. Among the injured there are 14 minors, two of whom are in serious condition, according to police. The other three victims were parishioners in their 80s.

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]]>Richard Tsong-Taatarii<![CDATA[Troops in Washington and Fed dismissals: Trump embraces authoritarian drift]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-08-27/troops-in-washington-and-fed-dismissals-trump-embraces-authoritarian-drift.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-08-27/troops-in-washington-and-fed-dismissals-trump-embraces-authoritarian-drift.htmlWed, 27 Aug 2025 08:38:32 +0000U.S. President Donald Trump claims he’s not a dictator, just “a man with great common sense.” But this statement, made Monday to the press in the Oval Office, reinforces previous messages flirting with the idea of an authoritarian leader: during the election campaign, he stated that, if he returned to the White House, he would be an autocrat on day one. His new remark on Monday came immediately after another disturbing comment: “A lot of people are saying maybe we like a dictator.”

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]]>J. Scott Applewhite<![CDATA[Trump tightens his grip on the Fed by removing Biden-appointed governor]]>https://english.elpais.com/economy-and-business/2025-08-26/trump-tightens-his-grip-on-the-fed-by-removing-a-biden-appointed-governor.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/economy-and-business/2025-08-26/trump-tightens-his-grip-on-the-fed-by-removing-a-biden-appointed-governor.htmlTue, 26 Aug 2025 10:58:43 +0000Donald Trump has dismissed Lisa Cook, governor of the Federal Reserve, as the U.S. president himself announced on social media. Cook’s dismissal — the economist had been accused by a Trump ally of making fraudulent statements on mortgage applications — is legally dubious and calls into question the future of the Fed’s independence. If the move goes ahead, it could give the Republican new leverage to gain control of the institution responsible for monetary policy, one of his ambitions for this term that has eluded him until now. But it could also cause repercussions in the markets.

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]]>Jim Urquhart<![CDATA[Salvadoran migrant Kilmar Abrego detained again by ICE]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-08-25/salvadoran-migrant-kilmar-abrego-detained-again-by-ice.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-08-25/salvadoran-migrant-kilmar-abrego-detained-again-by-ice.htmlMon, 25 Aug 2025 14:04:54 +0000Kilmar Abrego García, the Salvadoran immigrant whose mistaken deportation from the United States to his country of origin made him a symbol of Donald Trump’s hardline deportation policy, was detained again this Monday by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) when he appeared for an immigration court hearing in Baltimore, Maryland, regarding his case.

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]]>SHAWN THEW<![CDATA[FBI searches home of John Bolton, one of Trump’s biggest critics]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-08-22/fbi-searches-home-of-john-bolton-trumps-former-national-security-adviser.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-08-22/fbi-searches-home-of-john-bolton-trumps-former-national-security-adviser.htmlFri, 22 Aug 2025 13:44:00 +0000The FBI on Friday raided the home of John Bolton, Donald Trump’s former national security adviser and currently one of his most vocal critics. Agents entered Bolton’s private residence in Bethesda, an affluent neighborhood in northwest Washington, as part of an investigation into the alleged use of classified documents by the former senior official. An FBI spokesperson confirmed the agency was “conducting court authorized activity in the area.” The former ambassador to the U.N. was not at home at the time of the search.

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]]>Tasos Katopodis<![CDATA[Trump boasts about deployment of troops and federal police in Washington: ‘We’re going to stay here for a while’]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-08-22/trump-boasts-about-deployment-of-troops-and-federal-police-in-washington-theyre-going-to-be-there-for-a-long-time.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-08-22/trump-boasts-about-deployment-of-troops-and-federal-police-in-washington-theyre-going-to-be-there-for-a-long-time.htmlFri, 22 Aug 2025 09:26:49 +0000Donald Trump has taken to boasting about his decision to deploy federal soldiers and agents on the streets of Washington, despite the unease the measure has generated among residents. The Republican, who adopted the measure 10 days ago citing an alleged escalation of violence, went to the headquarters of the deployment to greet soldiers and police officers. “We’re going to make it safe, and we’re going to then go on to other places, but we’re going to stay here for a while,” the president said. The legislation allows the president to maintain this measure for 30 days, but Trump says he is considering extending it.

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]]>Jacquelyn Martin<![CDATA[Court overturns $454 million fine imposed on Donald Trump and his family for fraud]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-08-21/court-overturns-454-million-fine-imposed-on-donald-trump-and-his-family-for-fraud.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-08-21/court-overturns-454-million-fine-imposed-on-donald-trump-and-his-family-for-fraud.htmlThu, 21 Aug 2025 18:51:01 +0000Donald Trump scored another judicial victory Thursday when a New York appeals court overturned the ruling that required the U.S. president and his family to pay $454 million in a civil fraud case.

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]]>Nathan Howard<![CDATA[Trump faces the challenge of offering security guarantees to Ukraine in his push for peace]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-08-21/trump-faces-the-challenge-of-offering-security-guarantees-to-ukraine-in-his-push-for-peace.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-08-21/trump-faces-the-challenge-of-offering-security-guarantees-to-ukraine-in-his-push-for-peace.htmlThu, 21 Aug 2025 08:45:19 +0000After months of resistance, U.S. President Donald Trump has declared his willingness to participate in security guarantees for Ukraine, one of the key points in discussions about a peace agreement with Russia. He even specified that Washington could participate in some way with its air force. But it is still unclear what form these guarantees will take to ensure that the country is not attacked again in the future. Nor is it known what Trump will ultimately decide — the president’s base opposes any U.S. involvement in a conflict they see as very distant. Even less clear is whether the decision will be accepted by Russia.

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