Trump, Venezuela and Domestic Pressures
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Days earlier the Pentagon’s boss, Pete Hegseth, had ordered her to sail to the Caribbean, part of a vast and unexplained military build-up in the region. By early October, more than ten percent of all deployed American naval assets were located in the area controlled by the Pentagon’s Southern Command (SOUTHCOM),
The U.S. military buildup near Venezuela has drawn fierce criticism from Caracas and raised fears of a Caribbean confrontation.
In an interview aired Sunday on CBS News' "Face the Nation," Sen. Lindsey Graham said land strikes in Venezuela are a "real possibility" amid rising tensions.
A Venezuelan politician and ally of President Nicolás Maduro is pushing the country’s top court to strip opposition leaders María Corina Machado and Edmundo González of their citizenship. Luis Ratti — who was behind the effort to ban Machado from holding public office in 2023 — has requested that the Supreme Court revoke their citizenship,
The U.S. destroyer USS Gravely docked in Trinidad and Tobago as the Trump administration escalates military pressure on Venezuela's President Nicolás Maduro.
As the U.S. military presence near Venezuela increases, 60 Minutes traveled to the South American nation for a rare look at what life is like under its embattled dictator, Nicolás Maduro. "Instability isn't just an architectural feature in Venezuela;
Maduro criticized the movement of the carrier as an attempt by the U.S government to fabricate “a new eternal war” against his country.
Following U.S. military strikes against alleged drug boats in the Caribbean, lawmakers from both sides of the aisle are calling for more transparency from the Trump administration. Venezuela is condemning what it calls a military provocation by U.
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro accused Trump of warmongering after he deployed the U.S. Navy's largest aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald R. Ford, to the Caribbean, saying in part, "The people of the United States know it, they are inventing a new eternal war."
Venezuela has the world's largest oil reserves, but "our people don't even have gas even to cook. That's a disaster," María Corina Machado told Fortune.