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What is the legal case against Maduro — and why has he claimed to be a ‘prisoner of war’?
January 06, 2026 4:46 pm
According to the 25-page indictment, since 1999, when Maduro was first elected to public office, he, his wife, Cilia Flores, his son, Nicolás Ernesto Maduro Guerra, and his fellow indicted Venezuelan leaders participated in a 'relentless campaign of cocaine trafficking'
After Venezuela, alarm bells in Mexico, Colombia, Cuba: What's behind Trump's latest threats?
January 06, 2026 12:15 pm
Trump directly threatened action against Colombia and Mexico, if they failed to reduce the flow of illicit drugs into the US, while Cuba, a close ally of Venezuela, 'looks like it's ready to fall' on its own without American intervention
China This Week | China’s reaction to Venezuela crisis, and Pak-China foreign ministers’ meeting
January 06, 2026 12:06 pm
Every week, we recap highlights of the news from China. This week, we look at China’s relationship with Venezuela, what the US attack could mean for it, and its “ironclad” ties with Pakistan.
Maduro’s capture has a China fallout: A blow to its influence in the region, and a signal on Taiwan
January 06, 2026 6:19 pm
China is Venezuela’s largest external economic partner, and a big consumer of its oil. Many Chinese investments are now in jeopardy, but the bigger question is whether the American action potentially emboldens Beijing to take over Taiwan.
After Venezuela, is Greenland next? Inside Trump’s alleged ‘3-phase plan’ to take the Arctic island
January 06, 2026 12:09 pm
The rebuttal marks the latest response in a year-long campaign by the US to annexe the autonomous Danish province. Trump has repeatedly expressed an interest in 'purchasing' and taking control of the Arctic island from Denmark.
After Maduro: 3 things to know about Venezuela’s interim President Delcy Rodríguez
January 04, 2026 8:33 pm
Rodríguez, 56, comes from a family well-known for its Leftist political standing. She enjoyed the confidence of Nicolas Maduro, and, curiously, US officials also reportedly had her as their pick to succeed Maduro.
'Sovereignty violation', 'Dangerous precedent': Legal issues around the US capture of Venezuela’s Maduro
January 04, 2026 7:05 pm
The US military action has been criticised as disproportionate, even in the realm of the country’s history of interventions in South America for securing its own interests, such as oil in Venezuela’s case.
Maduro’s capture marks the return of US interventionism. Yet again, it’s all about the oil
January 05, 2026 7:38 am
Trump’s military action in Venezuela plunges the country into uncertainty and marks a worrying reassertion of the 200-year-old Monroe Doctrine, now rechristened as the ‘Don-roe Doctrine’.
With Maduro’s capture, Trump uses ‘war on drugs’ to effect regime change in Venezuela
January 04, 2026 2:00 pm
How has the Trump administration characterised its war on drugs? How severe is the problem of fentanyl trafficking? And is Venezuela a major player in illicit drug trafficking?
History repeats itself: How US captured Panama's leader Noriega nearly 36 years ago, much like it arrested Maduro
January 03, 2026 7:21 pm
This is not the first time that the US has gone into a Latin American country and captured its leader for drug trafficking. Nearly 36 years ago, the US invaded Panama, and arrested its ruler Manuel Noriega. The operation also involved a long playlist of heavy metal and rock songs
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