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US attack on Venezuela

US president Donald Trump captured Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro during an attack on 3 January 2025

April 2026

  • A portrait photograph of María Corina Machado in front of the colours of the Venezuelan flag

    Venezuela’s Machado to hold Madrid rally as opposition frozen out after Maduro capture

    Exiled leader to revive push for change amid US backing of Delcy Rodríguez and delays to democratic transition

March 2026

  • Nicolas Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, are seen in handcuffs after landing at a Manhattan helipad, escorted by heavily armed federal agents in January.

    Nicolás Maduro appears again in New York court on ‘narco-terrorism’ charges

    Deposed Venezuelan president and his wife, who both pleaded not guilty, were captured by US military in January

February 2026

  • Anchors sitting down at a Newsmax set

    Venezuela welcomes Trump-loving US TV channel in ‘marriage of convenience’

    Newsmax, granted major access as the first foreign outlet admitted after the US strike, hailed Trump as a ‘liberator’
  • a woman speaking into a microphone

    Leaked video shows Venezuela regime’s desperate struggle to control message

    Interim leader Delcy Rodríguez told influencers of US threat to kill leaders if they did not cooperate after capture of Maduro
  • Relatives of political prisoners maintain vigil in Caracasepa12647774 Relatives of political prisoners continue to wait in Zone 7 for updates on their detained family members in Caracas, Venezuela, 13 January 2026. EPA/MIGUEL GUTIERREZ

    Venezuela regime claims release of political prisoners is sign of new era

    NGOs estimate that there are still close to 1,000 political prisoners in Venezuela despite claims by new leaders
  • VENEZUELA-US-CONFLICT-CRISISDemonstrators wave a huge Venezuelan flag during a march in Caracas on January 9, 2026, to demand the release of deposed Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores, snatched and taken to New York on January 3 to face trial on drug and weapons charges. Venezuela said on January 9, it launched talks with the United States on restoring diplomatic ties, days after US forces deposed Nicolas Maduro as its president. (Photo by Federico PARRA / AFP via Getty Images)

    double quotation markTrump is repeating the mistakes of Iraq in Venezuela

    Mohamad Bazzi
    As it did in 2003, the US is underestimating the potential for instability as Trump resurrects one of the Iraq war’s biggest myths
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    Rightwing bloggers and Maga minions: meet the Trump-loving Pentagon press corps

    A group of reporters meant to hold the Pentagon to account is full of pro-Trump sycophants … what could go wrong?
  • A collaged artwork of Trump wearing a Maga hat and medals, standing in front of the Capitol building with helicopters and fighter jets flying in the background. The image has been designed to look like an oil painting.

    The Saturday read
    Trump’s territorial ambition: new imperialism or a case of the emperor’s new clothes?

    Trump’s attack on Venezuela suggests expansionism is under way but some argue it is simply standard US foreign policy stripped of hypocrisy
  • Close-up of Donald Trump

    Trump claims he has cancelled second wave of attacks on Venezuela

    US president does not elaborate on alleged plan for fresh strikes but says large naval presence in region will remain
  • a screenshot from a video shows an oil tanker

    US military forces seize fifth tanker in effort to control Venezuelan oil

    Pre-dawn assault on the Olina oil tanker was carried out by US marines and navy sailors in the Caribbean near Trinidad
  • Thousands of Venezuelans are crossing into Colombia to flee the country, trying to escape the recent crisis caused by the arrest of former President Maduro. The Colombian president has ordered the border to be reinforced with soldiers. Militarized Border in Cúcuta, Colombia/Venezuela, Cúcuta - 06 Jan 2026

    ‘We can’t take it any more’: thousands flee guerrilla clashes on Colombia-Venezuela border

    Caracas shake-up could intensify violence in Catatumbo in Colombia, an area rich with coca crops, cocaine laboratories and a porous border with Venezuela
  • Donald Trump in the Oval Office.

    Morality, military might and a sense of mischief: key takeaways from Trump’s New York Times interview

    Trump sounds off on Venezuela’s future, Taiwan’s security and his aims for Greenland, days after operation to seize Nicolás Maduro
  • buildings in sunlight

    Senate advances war powers resolution to stop Trump from taking further military action in Venezuela

    Democratic-led resolution would require US president to seek Congress’s approval to use military against Venezuela

    • Venezuela cooperating fully and US will control its oil for years, Trump claims

    • Thousands protest in Colombia as Trump and Petro agree to meet – video

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    • double quotation markMaduro is gone, but his regime is intact. What happened behind the scenes?

      Alejandro Velasco
  • Police tape surrounds a vehicle after its driver was shot by a US immigration agent, according to local and federal officials, in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

    US politics live with Shrai Popat
    Democrats slam Trump’s justification for immigration agent killing woman during ICE raid and call for investigation – as it happened

  • Thousands of people protest with Colombian flags, and a sign saying ‘No Kings’, in the city of Bogotá in Colombia.

    ‘Out with the Yanks!’: Thousands protest in Colombia as anger builds over Trump’s intervention in Venezuela

  • Democrats Chris Murphy and Chuck Schumer decried the forcible capture of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro, while Marco Rubio and Pete Hegseth defended the military operation

    Democrats and Republicans react to Venezuela attacks after Senate briefing – video

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  • a women looking at an audience

    María Corina Machado to publish book on political vision for Venezuela amid upheaval

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