US EditionMLA Calls on Trump to Release Venezuelan President Maduro
US special forces captured Maduro in Caracas; he faces drug trafficking trial in the US amid global condemnation and Venezuela holds the world's largest oil reserves, the EIA reports.
- On Saturday US special forces seized Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in Caracas while American fighter jets struck key military installations.
- On Monday, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmail Baghaei said critics view interventions as targeting Venezuela's oil reserves of 303 billion barrels, about 17 percent of global reserves.
- China demanded Maduro's release, saying the incursion breached international law, while Iran denounced the seizure as illegal and warned against repeat abductions after prior threats by President Donald Trump.
- Legal and commercial steps were announced by US officials after the seizure, with US authorities saying Maduro will stand trial in the United States and President Donald Trump pledging American companies access to Venezuela's oil.
- The episode has deepened regional and diplomatic tensions across Latin America and Europe, as Brazil, Colombia and Chile condemned the US assault while several European countries questioned its legality, and China's special representative on Latin American affairs Qiu Xiaoqi met Maduro hours before the seizure.
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BBC Newsnight clash explodes as Venezuelan diplomat ‘wipes the floor’ with Jeremy Corbyn in heated Maduro row
Viewers were left blasting Jeremy Corbyn after a heated exchange unfolded on BBC Newsnight on Monday between former Venezuelan opposition ambassador Vanessa Neumann and MP Mr Corbyn regarding the American operation to detain President Nicolás Maduro
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MPs join protesters calling for release of Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro
Jeremy Corbyn and Richard Burgon were among those gathered outside Downing Street.
Two days after the spectacular kidnapping of Nicolas Maduro and his wife by the American army in Venezuela, many images from their context circulate on social networks. Views of tens of millions of times, these false information sow doubt and saturate the information space.
Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader, is under pressure from below by demonstrations and from outside by the US president. The Venezuela operation could give Trump a good idea in Iran.
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