2026 • Jan 30
Trump threatens tariffs on goods from countries that sell oil to Cuba
White House cites Cuba’s ties to hostile powers as order ratchets up Trump’s pressure to topple its governmentDonald Trump signed
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2026 • Jan 29
US congressman meets five-year-old Liam Ramos and his father at ICE detention center – as it happened
This blog has now closed. Read our latest story hereTwo federal officers f...
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2026 • Jan 28
Can Venezuela’s Delcy Rodríguez become a Latin American Deng Xiaoping?
Maduro’s Sorbonne-educated successor is talking up an era of ‘reform and opening up’ modelled on China’s post-Mao boomAfter years of political and social upheaval, hunger and despair, the Gr...
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2026 • Jan 23
House rejects resolution that would bar Trump from sending troops to Venezuela
Vote on legislation falls just short of number needed for passage, showing Mike Johnson’s tenuous hold on majorityThe US House has rejected a resolution that would have prevented
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2026 • Jan 20
Catholic cardinals warn US foreign policy under Trump risks global suffering
Church leaders cite Greenland threats, Venezuela action and aid cuts as undermining human dignity and peaceThree cardinals in the US Catholic church have criticized the
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2026 • Jan 16
CIA chief visits Maduro successor as Machado vows to become Venezuela’s president
John Ratcliffe meets Delcy Rodríguez in Caracas less than two weeks after his agents helped to oust her precedessorThe CIA chief whose agents reputedly played a key role in abducting Nicolás...
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2026 • Jan 16
Why I’m withholding certainty that “precise” US cyber-op disrupted Venezuelan electricity
NYT says US hackers were able to turn off power and then quickly turn it back on. ...
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2026 • Jan 15
Why big oil giants may not rush to buy into Donald Trump’s Venezuelan vision
It may well be safer, easier and cheaper for US companies to procure whatever oil the US economy needs at homeThere are a few reasons that
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2026 • Jan 15
Minnesota governor calls on Trump to ‘turn the temperature down’; teargas used on Minneapolis protesters – live
Tim Walz urges US president to ‘stop this campaign of retribution’, hours before agents use teargas to disperse protesters outside federal building
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2026 • Jan 12
Australia should reconsider alliance with ‘fiercely unpredictable’ US, former foreign ministers say
Bob Carr says Trump foreign policy presents a ‘colossal challenge’ for Australia and Gareth Evans says the Aukus pact should be reconsideredGet our
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2026 • Jan 12
Trump’s other Latin American feud: why Colombia’s Petro is not Maduro
Leftwing leader rallies his supporters as US president accuses him of drug trafficking and threatens military actionA leftwing South American firebrand calls for his followers to rally in pu...
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2026 • Jan 12
US plan to exploit Venezuela’s oil could eat up 13% of carbon budget to keep 1.5C limit
Exclusive: ClimatePartner analysis shows how move would risk plunging Earth further into climate catastropheUS plans to exploit Venezuela’s oil reserves could by 2050 consume more than a ten...
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