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#venezuela

the only constraint to his power as president of the US is my own morality, my own mind. It's the only thing that can stop me, Trump said, adding: I'm not looking to hurt people. He went on to concede I do in regards to whether his administration needed to adhere to international law, but said: It depends on what your definition of international law is.

This week, Sanchez did not wait for a joint EU statement to issue judgment on the US's illegal military intervention to capture the Venezuelan president, Nicolas Maduro: he swiftly joined Latin American countries in condemning it. A few hours later he went even further, saying the operation in Caracas represented a terrible precedent and a very dangerous one [which] reminds us of past aggressions, and pushes the world toward a future of uncertainty and insecurity, similar to what we already experienced after other invasions driven by the thirst for oil.

U.S. forces invaded Venezuela on Saturday and abducted President Nicolas Maduro, who pleaded not guilty to federal drug trafficking charges in New York on Monday. Maduro's vice president, Delcy Rodriguez, has been sworn in as acting president. After the invasion, Trump has gushed about Venezuela's oil reserves. We're going to keep the oil, he said. The president has also suggested that the U.S. government will reimburse American oil companies who rebuilding Venezuela's energy industry.

Until recently, Donald Trump was consistent about this: The time for the United States to police the world, enforcing laws and norms, was over. "We are going to take care of this country first before we worry about everybody else in the world," he told The New York Times in 2016. "We more and more are not wanting to be the policemen of the world," he said during a press conference with Nigeria's president in 2018.

Republicans should be ashamed of the Senators that just voted with Democrats in attempting to take away our Powers to fight and defend the United States of America. Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, Rand Paul, Josh Hawley, and Todd Young should never be elected to office again, Trump raged, adding: This Vote greatly hampers American Self Defense and National Security, impeding the President's Authority as Commander in Chief.

This week, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss what the so-called "Donroe Doctrine" means for international order after the US military extracted Maduro from Venezuela amid rumblings over Greenland and Cuba, the background and evolving situation in Minnesota after an ICE agent killed a woman during a raid, and how changes to the federal recommended childhood vaccine schedule dangerously denormalize routine vaccines with guest Dr. Josh Sharfstein, Professor of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University.

During the opening session of Venezuela's National Assembly this week, opposition lawmaker Tomas Guanipa stood up to demand freedom for the country's more than 800 political prisoners, one of whom is his brother. His protest lasted just a few seconds until he was shouted down by pro-regime legislators. Indeed, Venezuela's political opposition remains largely muzzled and shut out of power.

The U.S. mission to seize Venezuela's President Nicolás Maduro has pushed the concept of regime change back into everyday conversation. "Regime Change in America's Back Yard," declared The New Yorker in a piece that typified the response to the Jan. 3 operation that saw Maduro exchange a compound in Caracas for a jail in Brooklyn. Commentators and politicians have been using the term as shorthand for removing Maduro and ending Venezuela's crisis, as if the two were essentially the same thing.

BREAKINGBREAKING, Published On 8 Jan 20268 Jan 2026 A resolution that would block US President Donald Trump from taking further military action against Venezuela without congressional authorisation has passed in the Senate by a vote of 52-47. With the measure receiving a simple majority in Thursday's vote, it will move ahead to the House. Days after US forces abducted Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro in a dramatic military raid in Caracas,

The new Venezuelan president referred to the kidnapping of Nicolas Maduro as a stain that contaminates the relationship between the two countries and asserted that drug trafficking and human rights were an excuse for the U.S. intervention, because the real motive is Venezuelan oil. On Wednesday, the state-owned oil company PDVSA announced the existence of trade negotiations with the United States, just four days after the capture of the Chavista leader and his wife, Cilia Flores.

The administration of United States President Donald Trump has reaffirmed that it plans to dictate terms to the interim government of Venezuela, following the abduction of leader Nicolas Maduro over the weekend. On Wednesday, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt addressed the US attack on Venezuela for the first time in a news briefing, and she faced a volley of questions about the extent of Trump's role in the South American country's governance.

The natural dignity of every human being and their right to be free are essential principles of this project, as is the courage needed to defend them Likewise, the right to security, freedom of expression, freedom of assembly and association, education that begins at home, and civic and transparent voting are pillars of the liberal democracy that Machado wishes to establish in Venezuela, the description added.

U.S. military forces have tracked and intercepted a Russian-flagged oil tanker in international waters that had tried to circumvent Washington's blockade on Venezuelan crude exports, the U.S. military's European command confirmed on Wednesday. After a chase that lasted two weeks, the oil tanker was intercepted in North Atlantic waters near Iceland in a joint operation between the Coast Guard and the U.S. military, Reuters reported.

As far as I'm concerned, the policies of the Trump administration and the Department of Homeland Security have not changed. All those illegally present in the country are subject to deportation. I would just like to add how we got here. The president was very clear on the campaign to the American public, and it's one of the many reasons they resoundingly re-elected him back to this office, that he was not only going to crush foreign drug cartels,

Part of that stabilization and the reason why we understand and believe that we have the strongest leverage possible is our quarantine.

The complex assault operation involved over 150 military aircraft. Some conducted strikes. Others waged electronic warfare and engaged in intelligence, reconnaissance, and surveillance. And in the middle of it all, helicopters rushed troops in and out of the capital. The US military hit bases and strategic infrastructure, battered air defenses, and overwhelmed local security teams. President Donald Trump revealed that an aircraft was hit without specifying by what, but the aircraft remained operational.

US Coast Guard tactical teams worked closely with its counterparts at the Departments of War, Department of Justice and State and used their specialized expertise to conduct these operations and conduct two safe, effective boardings within hours of each other. One of these tankers, Motor Tanker Bella I, has been trying to evade the Coast Guard for weeks, even changing its flag and painting a new name on the hull while being pursued, in a desperate and failed attempt to escape justice.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said Bella-1 had "been trying to evade the Coast Guard for weeks, even changing its flag and painting a new name on the hull." "The heroic crew of the USCGC Munro pursued this vessel across the high seas and through treacherous storms," she said.

We have started 2026 with a geopolitical shock as the Trump administration ousted Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro and imprisoned him on US soil. As many western governments struggle to respond to this violation of international law, for Caribbean countries, this is not an awkward diplomatic spot but a real moment of political fear, uncertainty, and regional fracture. Maritime ever-present Trinidad endorses US presence in the region under the pretence of combating transnational crime.