US EditionVenezuela’s quiet opposition leader: Why Edmundo González is on the sidelines of a power struggle
The US-led removal of Nicolás Maduro involved thousands of personnel and resulted in about 100 Venezuelan deaths, setting a precedent for influence through energy and security cooperation.
- On January 3, U.S. forces executed Operation Absolute Resolve, seizing Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and flying him to New York for trial in a high-tempo extraction that tested the 'Donroe Doctrine'.
- The Trump administration is operationalizing a Donroe Doctrine to limit Chinese, Russian, Iranian and Cuban leverage in the Western Hemisphere, aiming to remove linchpins and renegotiate influence through energy and security cooperation rather than occupation.
- U.S. planners mobilized thousands of personnel, naval assets and preparatory strikes near the Colombian border, with roughly 100 deaths inside Venezuela, including the Cuban security detail, and losses for Cuba.
- The interim leadership centers on Delcy Rodríguez, Venezuelan Vice President, and Jorge Rodríguez, Venezuelan National Assembly President, showing early prisoner releases and speech shifts amid fragile institutional decay.
- Singh highlights claims that 303 billion barrels could enable a petrol reset, but heavy crude and refining constraints plus enforcement paralysis at the Organization of American States, UN Security Council and International Criminal Court complicate recovery.
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The Pentagon used Anthropic's Claude artificial intelligence model to invade Venezuela and capture President Nicolas Maduro in early January, the Wall Street Journal reported. The use of the model under contract with Palantir highlights the growing role of artificial intelligence in the Pentagon.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said this Sunday that the situation in Venezuela “is much better” than six weeks ago, attributing that improvement to the U.S. military incursion that culminated in the capture of President Nicolás Maduro on January 3 in Caracas. During a press conference in Bratislava, together with Slovakia’s Prime Minister, Robert Fico, Rubio firmly defended the operation and said that, although there is “a long way to go” an…
By Alessandra Freitas, CNN In the weeks following Venezuela's President Nicolás Maduro's military capture by the United States, the world's attention was focused on who was best positioned to lead a country that spent 13 years under his authoritarian regime.Since the overthrow of Maduro by U.S. special forces on January 3, the right to succeed has been claimed by: Delcy Rodríguez, former vice president of Maduro and currently sworn in as preside…
Venezuela’s quiet opposition leader: Why Edmundo González is on the sidelines of a power struggle
By Alessandra Freitas, CNN In the weeks following the US military capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, the world’s attention turned to who was best placed to run a country that had spent 13 years under his authoritarian regime. Since Maduro’s unceremonious ouster at the hands of US special forces on January 3, the right to succeed him has been claimed by: Delcy Rodríguez, Maduro’s former deputy, currently sworn in as acting president …
Rubio defends US operation in Venezuela, calls out reporter for trying to start a fight
Secretary of State Marco Rubio defended the U.S. capture of former Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Sunday, going on to call out a reporter for supposedly trying to stir up tension during a press conference.Rubio made the statement during a joint appearance with Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico. A reporter referenced Fico's previous criticism of the U.S. operation against Maduro and asked whether he stood by it, leading Rubio to addres…
FO Talks: Is Sovereignty Dead? Trump’s Maduro Arrest and the End of Global Norms
Editor-in-Chief Atul Singh and Professor Leonardo Vivas of Lesley University discuss Operation Absolute Resolve, US President Donald Trump’s January 3 operation to seize Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and fly him to New York for trial. The extraction was a turning point with consequences far beyond Venezuela’s capital of Caracas: a test case for the so-called “Donroe Doctrine,” an experiment in regime alteration and a sign that the post-Wor…
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