Maduro, Trump and Venezuela
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The president also reiterated aggressive comments toward Colombia’s leader, who denigrated the Trump administration as a "clan of pedophiles."
The most striking comparison to the operation isn’t Panama, though. It’s Ukraine. From Moscow, President Vladimir Putin once tried his own version of leadership decapitation—minus the rock playlist, plus a full-scale invasion—expecting Ukraine’s government to “quit,
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Today an illegal coup in Venezuela, but where next? Donald Trump talks peace but he is a man of war
The world will be anxious, and rightly so. For a man so bent on a peace prize, Trump appears to revel in conflict, writes Simon Tisdall
During a press conference on 3 January, President Donald Trump declared that the US would "run" Venezuela following the overnight capture of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. Meanwhile, the South African government has called for an urgent convening of the United Nations Security Council,
Student loan collections were first suspended under President Donald Trump during the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, with Congress later extending the pause. President Joe Biden’s administration prolonged the moratorium and introduced a program allowing borrowers in default to rehabilitate their loans, though many remained unresolved.
The United States launched what President Donald Trump described as 'large-scale strikes against Venezuela' on Saturday, an action that was said to be carried out "in conjunction with US law enforcement".
Trump accused Panama of charging excessive rates for use of the Panama Canal and said that if Panama did not manage the canal in an acceptable fashion, he would demand the hand it over.
Once a critic of entanglements abroad, Trump now appears willing to embrace regime change as a tool of American influence, risking a backlash from his MAGA base.