The president says he ‘doubts’ the US will go to war with the Caribbean nation, in an interview with ’60 Minutes’
The US president denies reports suggesting an imminent operation
If the president is serious about addressing organized crime and protecting American lives, he needs to look beyond military and defensive tools
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the victims of three extrajudicial operations belonged to ‘designated terrorist organizations’
The bolivar has been steadily losing ground, and the dollar has devalued by 60% since August
It is unlikely that all the boats attacked by the United States belong to artisanal fishermen, says an official with the Colombian Navy
The reporter says that US intelligence is at a crisis point, and warns of the risks of the White House’s operation against Nicolás Maduro
More than 100,000 former members of the armed forces do not have American citizenship and are at risk of being removed from the country
The Pentagon’s announcement comes after the 10th extrajudicial attack against an alleged drug-running boat
Jeison Obando Pérez is recovering in a Bogotá hospital from injuries he sustained in the attack, and will likely be released despite US demands for his arrest
The US president calls the Colombian leader a ‘thug’ and a ‘bad guy,’ and Petro announces legal action for slander
Yevhenii Petrovich Trush, 20, arrived in the country hoping to start a new life with his Venezuelan partner after being forced to leave his home due to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
Caracas expands its military deployment while US attacks against alleged drug boats intensify
At least one of the attacks took place off the coast of Colombia, amid escalating tensions between Donald Trump and Gustavo Petro
The measure is intended to strengthen state surveillance and ensure that citizens report any incidents to the authorities
President Gustavo Petro suspects that at least one of the US attacks in the Caribbean occurred in Colombian waters
In an interview with EL PAÍS, the president-elect of the Andean country says that he considers himself a centrist politician
In late September, the state began allowing people to bear firearms in public
The Venezuelan opposition leader, recently awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, asserts that the Maduro regime ‘is weaker than ever’
The Venezuelan leader is digging in his heels. There are no signs of internal cracks despite escalating US military pressure
The agency’s covert operations, which Trump confirmed last week, hark back to the coups, assassination attempts and insurgencies supported or carried out by Washington in the region during the 20th century
The extrajudicial operation, reported by Reuters, is the army’s sixth against vessels from Venezuela
The call between the presidents of the United States and Russia comes on the eve of a summit in Washington with Volodymyr Zelenskiy to discuss sending Tomahawk missiles to Kyiv
The Venezuelan president calls on American society to to be ‘alert to avoid a war in the Caribbean and in South America’
This is the fifth attack on a suspected ‘narcotrafficking’ vessel in the Caribbean. A total of 27 people have died in the US operations
The plan to hasten the Venezuelan leader’s downfall with a naval deployment in the Caribbean and a campaign of extrajudicial attacks on alleged drug boats has raised questions about what could come next