Iran is no stranger to street protests, but several factors surrounding the current unrest make it very serious. Monday marks the ninth day since the demonstrations broke out, but even four or five days were enough for President Trump to issue a direct warning to Iranian leaders about the treatment of the protesters, saying that … Read more
Marco Rubio was visibly irritated when he recalled that despite the capture of former president Nicolás Maduro, the dictator’s regime is still in power in Venezuela. “I’m curious why the Trump administration decided to leave [Maduro’s regime] intact and arrest only Nicolás Maduro and his wife,” asked host Margaret Brennan Facing the Nation Sunday, pointing … Read more
On November 2, White House chief of staff Susie Wiles told Vanity Fair that ground strikes in Venezuela would require congressional approval. She said that if Trump “had to authorize any activity on the ground, then it’s a war, so (we need) Congress.” Days later, Trump administration officials privately told members of Congress the same … Read more
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) — serving her final days before leaving Congress — slammed President Donald Trump’s decision to strike Venezuela. In a post to X on Saturday, Greene took issue with the administration justifying the move on the grounds that they were seeking to combat narco-terrorism. “I have served on the Homeland Security … Read more
The “Russian Shield” over Caracas, Venezuela’s vaunted air defense, was supposed to be an iron dome, one that would put the United States to shame and sink their ships. But at 0400 EST on January 3, 2026, the US Navy turned it into hot scrap metal. For a decade, defense blogs and the twittersphere have … Read more
The expressions of unbridled power do not come more clearly than the abduction of a sitting president from his capital in the dead of night. President Donald Trump demonstrated in a 74-word post on social media that he can act decisively, suddenly and perhaps recklessly, in pursuit of his varied and varied foreign policy goals, … Read more
The United States hit Venezuela with a “large-scale strike” early Saturday and said President Nicolás Maduro and his wife had been captured and driven out of the country after months of increased pressure from Washington — an extraordinary nighttime operation announced by President Donald Trump on social media hours after the attack. Multiple explosions went … Read more
American President Donald Trump said that the United States carried out a “large-scale strike” against Venezuela and its leader, President Nicolas Maduro. In a post on Truth Social, Trump claimed that Maduro and his wife had been “captured and kicked out of the country” after the operation, which he said was carried out “in conjunction … Read more
Explosions and rising smoke were heard in the Venezuelan capital Caracas, according to an Al Jazeera correspondent there, among spiral tensions with the United States. Footage obtained by Al Jazeera showed fireballs and thick smoke billowing from a structure near a body of water in Caracas early Saturday. Citing sources, Al Jazeera’s Lucia Newman, reporting … Read more
MARACAY, Venezuela (AP) — This was not the Christmas Mariela Gómez imagined a year ago. Or what thousands of other Venezuelan immigrants thought. But Donald Trump returned to the White House in January and quickly ended their American dream. So Gómez found herself spending the holiday in the North of Venezuela for the first time … Read more