Venezuela

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

In his first public appearance since María Corina Machado won the Nobel Prize, the Venezuelan president insists that Chavismo is ready to fight against the threats of imperialism

The Venezuelan opposition leader reflects in an interview with EL PAÍS on the implications of winning the Nobel Peace Prize, just hours after being awarded

The Norwegian award committee chose the candidate ‘for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela’

In a letter to the president of the Security Council, the Nicolás Maduro government warns of ‘an impending aggression’

The Norwegian committee’s decision to award the prize to Venezuela’s opposition leader María Corina Machado was made before the agreement between Israel and Hamas to end the war in Gaza

Venezuela’s president assures that the country’s economic activity will not slow down despite the threats from the US

Chavismo is recruiting citizens with no military experience in the event of a possible war scenario

The president considers the attacks on alleged trafficking boats a success and adds, ‘we’ll look at what phase two is’

Venezuelan inmates, a population that has grown from 48 to over 4,000, are imposing their jail culture

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth claimed that the four crew members killed in the military operation were ‘narco-terrorists’

The government understands that the US warships anchored in the Caribbean Sea are not focusing on alleged drug shipments as much as they are on President Maduro and his closest aides

The move comes after US forces sank three boats allegedly carrying drugs in the Caribbean over the past month

The warning comes after Trump sent a confidential notice to Congress stating that the United States is in a ‘noninternational armed conflict’ with drug cartels