By Dave Sherwood HAVANA, Jan 31 (Reuters) – Cubans from all walks of life are moving into survival mode, navigating lengthening blackouts and rising prices for food, fuel and transportation as the United States threatens to seize control of the Communist-run nation. Reuters interviewed over three dozen residents of cities and neighborhoods around the capital … Read more
WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Marco Rubio plans on Wednesday to warn that the Trump administration is ready to take new military action against Venezuela if the country’s interim leadership deviates from US expectations. In testimony prepared for a hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Rubio says that the United States is not … Read more
By Erin Banco, Jonathan. NEW YORK, Jan 27 (Reuters) – U.S. intelligence reports have raised doubts about whether Venezuela’s interim President Delcy Rodriguez will cooperate with the Trump administration by formally cutting ties with U.S. adversaries, four people familiar with the reports said in recent days. US officials have said publicly that they want the … Read more
Donald Trump represents a greater threat to NATO than said Vladimir Putin, one of the former commanders of the alliance in a powerful attack on Washington’s foreign policy. The American President caused alarm after a series of aggressive moves this year including the capture of Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela, threats to invade Greenland and the … Read more
Venezuela’s Acting President Delcy Rodríguez said Sunday that she had “enough” of Washington’s orders, as she works to unite the country after the US capture of its former leader Nicolás Maduro. Rodríguez has been walking a tightrope since he was backed by the United States to lead the country in the interim; balancing keeping Maduro … Read more
By Erin Banco, Sarah Kinosian and Matt Spetalnick NEW YORK/MIAMI/WASHINGTON, Jan 17 (Reuters) – Trump administration officials were in discussions with Venezuelan Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello months before the US operation to capture President Nicolas Maduro, and have been in communication with him since then, according to several people familiar with the matter. Officials warned … Read more
WASHINGTON (AP) — More than a year before a US military operation ousted Nicolás Maduro, a senior aide to President Donald Trump argued that the Venezuelan leader was sending gang members to the United States. “If you’re a dictator of a poor country with a high crime rate, wouldn’t you send your criminals into our … Read more
Venezuela on Tuesday began releasing imprisoned Americans, a US official said, praising the move by the country’s interim leadership following Washington’s ouster of former President Nicolas Maduro. The official did not immediately give details about the release of the prisoners or say how many were being released, apart from the fact that there were more … Read more
InGame A group of 12 senators signed and sent a letter asking Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Chairman Michael Selig, to explain the regulator’s approach to insider trading in the prediction markets. The letter, dated Sunday, followed reports of activity that appeared consistent with insider trading on the Polymarket prediction market, on contracts related to … Read more
By Michael Martina, Trevor Hunnicutt and David Brunnstrom WASHINGTON, Jan 11 (Reuters) – Among the many aims of last week’s US military operation that captured Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro was to send a message to China: stay away from America. For at least two decades, Beijing has sought to build influence in Latin America, not … Read more