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THE TRUTH ABOUT: 3 - Caught on Camera

Exclusive: Energy secretary discusses plans for oil, minerals

Energy Secretary Chris Wright is looking to secure oil and critical minerals deals with Venezuela in the next few weeks ahead of a trip to Caracas.

Axios

CIA director meets Venezuela's acting president in Caracas

CIA Director John Ratcliffe has met with Venezuela’s acting President Delcy Rodríguez

The Independent UK

CIA chief visits Maduro successor as Machado vows to become Venezuela’s president

John Ratcliffe meets Delcy Rodríguez in Caracas less than two weeks after his agents helped to oust her precedessor

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Families Of Venezuela's Political Prisoners Continue Demanding Their Release As Uncertainty Lingers

What began as a promise that gave hope to thousands of families of political prisoners in Venezuela has turned into at least five days of uncertainty.

Latin Times

Cuban Soldier Describes His Experience During Raid That Captured Maduro: 'It Was Disproportionate'

A Cuban soldier described the scenes that unfolded when U.S. troops arrived in Caracas to capture authoritarian President Nicolas Maduro.

Latin Times

Caracas CODEL: Senators are eager to visit Venezuela

"That lady's got guts, right?"

Axios

Pentagon Timed Venezuela Blackout for Early Morning to Capture Maduro and Limit Civilian Harm

U.S. military planners timed a cyberattack that cut power across large parts of Caracas in the early hours of Jan. 3 to support a pre-dawn raid to capture Venezuela's Nicolás Maduro while limiting risks to civilians, according to a new report.

Latin Times

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‘It was a massacre’: Maduro security guard alleges ‘sound waves’ used in Caracas attack

Disturbing, if true.

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Venezuelans Describe U.S. Operation to Capture Maduro: "Wow, It's Happening. The Gringos Have Arrived"

More than 10 days after the U.S. operation that captured Maduro, Caracas residents described to the BBC what they remember from that night.

Latin Times

Top Venezuelan Official Says US Embassy Talks Look to Secure Maduro's Return: 'That's the Fundamental Objective'

Venezuela's Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello said that Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, were "kidnapped" during a U.S. military operation earlier this month, and that efforts to reopen diplomatic missions between Caracas and Washington are primarily aimed at ensuring their safety and return.

Latin Times

Oil Tanker Carrying Half a Million Barrels Returns to Venezuela After Interim Leader Seeks U.S. Military Help

The tanker departed an eastern Venezuela port shortly after the Jan. 3 military operation in Caracas without authorization from port authorities or Petróleos de Venezuela, the state oil company, which said it was never paid for the half-million barrels of crude onboard.

Latin Times

Venezuela's 'black gold' allies: Caracas' links to Cuba, China, Russia and Iran

From 1999 onwards, successive governments pursued a strategy linking foreign policy, state financing and the management of the country's main industry. The result was a network of bilateral alliances that channelled much of Venezuela's crude outside conventional buying and selling circuits.

Euronews

Venezuela's Russian-Made Defense Systems Were Not Connected To Radar When U.S. Forces Conducted Raid To Capture Maduro: Report

Venezuela's advanced air defense systems bought from Russia were not connected to the radar when U.S. forces descended in Caracas to capture authoritarian President Nicolas Maduro, according to a new report.

Latin Times

Trump plays the savior after getting his oil payout, while holding Venezuela hostage with air strikes and demanding more

The US is basically an imperial nation now.

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US urges its citizens to flee Venezuela amid reports of paramilitaries

State department says armed ‘colectivos’ appear to be setting up roadblocks and searching vehicles for Americans

The Independent UK

Slow-moving prisoner releases in Venezuela enter 3rd day

Venezuelan detainee Diógenes Angulo has been released from prison after a year and five months

The Guardian - UK

Trinidad and Tobago went all in with the US – it will prove a costly misjudgment

Aligning itself with Washington and casually dismissing regional diplomacy has left the dual island nation isolated amid the Venezuela crisis, says Caribbean analyst Kenneth Mohammed

Latin Times

Venezuelans Report Phone Searches and Detentions as Interim Regime Cracks Down on Dissent

The crackdown has unfolded alongside large, government-led marches in Caracas calling for Maduro's freedom

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The Guardian - UK

From Caracas to Minneapolis, the threat is the same – an American president ruling like a global emperor

Trump’s admission that he recognises no constraint outside his own morality was a horrifying moment of truth, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

The Conversation

How markets have cashed in on Maduro’s capture in Venezuela – and why it’s raising questions

On January 3, the world watched in disbelief as the Venezuelan president, Nicolás Maduro, was captured by US forces. It was a dramatic geopolitical event that would reverberate not just in Washington and Caracas, but deep into global financial markets.

The Guardian - UK

After Trump’s attack, we Venezuelans need to know what comes next – authoritarianism or democracy

There is palpable tension: not because anyone trusts the president and the US, but because now there is opportunity for change, says historian Jesús Piñero

The Guardian - AU

‘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

The Guardian - UK

Venezuela begins releasing political detainees to ‘consolidate peace’

Opposition leader María Corina Machado hails move to tackle ‘injustice’ as Spain’s foreign ministry confirms release of five Spanish nationals

Axios

Maduro raid had telltale signs of a cyber-enabled blackout

Trump says "a certain expertise that we have" was used to turn off the lights in Caracas.

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on the new global disorder: Britain and Europe must find their own path

Editorial: Donald Trump’s Venezuela policy confirms he has no time for rules or process. America’s allies must find new ways to guarantee their own interests

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