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Longtime scholar of Venezuelan politics Geo Maher offers crucial context that is often missing from mainstream coverage.

The Trump administration has frequently cited fraud as a basis for cutting benefits for US residents.

Not long ago, President Donald Trump had a clear opinion of Venezuelan oil. Throughout his 2024 presidential campaign, he called the country’s crude “horrible,” “tar,” “the dirtiest stuff you can imagine,” and the “worst oil probably anywhere in the world.” But, less than two years later, President Trump has framed his move to depose Nicolás Maduro […]

The Democratic National Committee said the move to hand over the voter roll could violate federal election law.

Drop Site Daily: January 9, 2026

Former Hugo Chávez adviser explains how Donald Trump replaced Nicolás Maduro, why installing Venezuela’s opposition leader might have caused a “civil war,” and what’s next.

We are cursed by what the historian Barbara Tuchman calls the “bellicose frivolity of senile empires.”