US President Donald Trump’s assertion that Washington would “run” Venezuela following the capture of the country’s leader Nicolás Maduro opened urgent questions over its future.
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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 […]
By Majd Jawad for Mondoweiss My last visit to the village of Yanoun was about two years ago, when I reported on the only school that remained in the beleaguered hamlet in the northern occupied West Bank. Israeli settlers and the army had been continuously harassing the residents of the Palestinian village in an attempt to force […]
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 […]