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Machado to meet Trump over Venezuela transition

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado is set to meet US President Donald Trump at the White House on Thursday, hoping to influence his stance on the country’s transitional government. Machado, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, previously offered to share the award with Trump, though the Norwegian Nobel Institute has said the prize cannot legally be transferred. Trump has praised Maduro’s vice-president, Delcy Rodríguez, who is now overseeing Venezuela after a recent US operation removed Nicolás Maduro from power. Despite Machado’s prominence in the opposition and her 2023 primary landslide, Trump has publicly supported Rodríguez, citing her cooperation with US objectives. Machado’s meeting aims to convince Trump that Rodríguez may not be the right choice for leading the transition and that her opposition coalition should have a stronger role. She has repeatedly highlighted her work for democracy and her ability […]

Trump posts self as ‘acting president’ of Venezuela

US President Donald Trump has shared a doctored image on his Truth Social account describing himself as the “Acting President of Venezuela, incumbent January 2026.” The graphic, styled to look like a Wikipedia page, lists him as both the 45th and 47th US president and claims he now leads the South American country.​ The post comes days after a US military operation in Caracas that saw Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores captured and flown to New York to face drug and weapons related charges. Trump has said his administration will “run” Venezuela and oversee its oil assets during what he calls a transition period.​ Despite Trump’s online claim, no international body or foreign government has recognised him as Venezuela’s acting leader. The country’s actual acting president is Vice President Delcy Rodríguez, who has rejected US authority […]

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Families doubt Venezuela’s prisoner release pledge

The son of an imprisoned Venezuelan opposition figure has urged former US President Donald Trump to remain firm on Caracas, warning that the government has not honoured its pledge to free large numbers of political detainees. Ramón Guanipa, whose father Juan Pablo Guanipa is a prominent opposition leader, said only a small fraction of those jailed for political reasons have been released so far. He believes Trump may not yet be aware that fewer than 50 of the more than 800 reported political prisoners have actually been freed. Last week, the Venezuelan authorities announced they would begin releasing detainees in what they described as a goodwill gesture. The move followed the dramatic seizure of President Nicolás Maduro in Caracas on 3 January by US forces, after which he was taken to New York to face drug-trafficking charges. Soon after the […]

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Maduro seized, but power network still holds Venezuela

Venezuela faces deep uncertainty over who is really in charge after U.S. forces seized President Nicolas Maduro and flew him out of the country, even though Washington says Vice President Delcy Rodríguez has been named acting leader. Venezuela’s top court has said the constitution makes Rodríguez interim president in Maduro’s absence, but she quickly appeared on state TV with powerful regime figures to insist Maduro remains the only president, signalling that his inner circle is still united.​ For more than a decade, real power in Venezuela has rested with a small group of senior civilian and military officials who control security forces, state institutions and major economic sectors. Analysts say this patronage network, built on loyalty, corruption and surveillance, is harder to dismantle than simply removing Maduro, because dozens of key players would need to be sidelined before genuine change […]

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