Argentina's president, Javier Milei, attended this Sunday a Latin gala in Washington, United States, to celebrate the inauguration of Donald Trump. Other special guests included Paraguayan President Santiago Peña and Venezuelan opposition leader Edmundo González Urrutia.
It remains unclear how many Americans are currently held in Venezuela following the significant prisoner swap in 2023 when Washington and Caracas negotiated the release of dozens of prisoners, including 10 Americans, in exchange for Colombian businessman Alex Saab, a close ally of Maduro.
Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro began a third term as president on Friday, cementing his increasingly authoritarian rule.
The US ruling class is approaching a consensus on the use of further economic devastation and potentially military force to oust Maduro and secure control over the world’s largest oil reserves.
It also marked a pivotal moment for U.S. policy toward Venezuela, showing how far the Biden administration has come in the past eight months — from naive diplomacy to a pragmatic, strategic and muscular approach.
Yesterday, opposition leader María Corina Machado posted a video on social media saying the moment was not right for his return. Recorded in hiding, she promised: “Edmundo will come to Venezuela to be sworn in as constitutional president of Venezuela at the right time.”
Allowing Venezuela’s criminal state to persist is not an option. Its exportation of illicit drugs and violence destabilizes Latin America and endangers U.S. security.
As many as 10 Americans are behind bars in Venezuela as President Nicolas Maduro prepares to be sworn in for a third term.
President Biden’s 30-minute meeting in the White House Monday with Venezuela’s opposition leader Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia sent a powerful message to Venezuelans at home and the international community just days before a critical juncture in the South American country’s struggle for democracy.
Nicolás Maduro’s grip on Venezuela continues to be a crisis not only for his people but for the entire Western Hemisphere. His so-called third term, born of stolen elections and a blatant ...
In this epic Latin American tragedy, the task ahead is not only to rebuild a democracy that has been destroyed. It is also to rebuild an economy, a society, and a country