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Washington deployed 150 aircraft in its brazen mission to extract Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife on Saturday, but planning began months earlier.
By Juan Cole for Informed Comment 1. Violation of the UN Charter and the International laws of war The Trump administration attacked Venezuela and abducted of dictator Nicolas Maduro without the slightest justification in international law. The UN Charter forbids war except under two circumstances, self-defense or the designation of a country as a danger […]
Washington’s surprise capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro crystallized a new “Donroe Doctrine” of foreign policy focused on policing the superpower’s immediate neighborhood.
“It sounded like an earthquake, like the sky was falling down,” a journalist in Caracas said of the US strikes.
Officials tell Zeteo that Trump remains ‘very interested’ in the idea of sending US Special Forces into Mexico, as the president threatens Colombia and Cuba, too.
By Jake Johnson for Common Dreams Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodríguez, who assumed the role of interim president following the US abduction of Nicolás Maduro, said in a televised address Saturday that “we will never again be a colony of any empire,” defying the Trump administration’s plan to indefinitely control Venezuela’s government and exploit its vast oil reserves. “We […]
Ben Norton Twitter: The US attack on Venezuela is part of a larger US imperialist assault on all of Latin America. This is the US empire’s plan. It was spelled out clearly in the Trump administration’s 2025 National Security Strategy. The US seeks to forcibly impose its hegemony in the entire western hemisphere, reviving the […]