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Montevideo, December 13th 2025 - 15:01 UTC

Tag: Nicolas Maduro

  • Thursday, December 11th 2025 - 10:14 UTC

    Petro suggests Maduro moves on to “transitional government”

    Maduro wants to join forces with Colombia as Trump warns Petro would be targeted next

    Colombian President Gustavo Petro has intensified diplomatic pressure on his Venezuelan counterpart, Nicolás Maduro, calling for a “general amnesty” and the formation of a “transitional government with the inclusion of all” to resolve Venezuela’s protracted political crisis.

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  • Thursday, December 11th 2025 - 10:11 UTC

    US seizes oil tanker off Venezuelan shores

    Shippers are expected to be more cautious in the future when loading Venezuelan crude, US authorities hope

    The United States seized a large oil tanker in international waters off the coast of Venezuela on Wednesday in a high-stakes maritime operation, marking a significant escalation in the pressure campaign against the Bolivarian regime of Nicolás Maduro.

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  • Wednesday, December 3rd 2025 - 10:39 UTC

    What are the conditions Maduro offered Trump? The keys behind US president’s ultimatum

    The Venezuelan president was reportedly willing to step down, but only under a set of political and judicial guarantees that Washington deemed unacceptable

    Amid an unprecedented military buildup and the formal designation of Venezuela’s so-called Cartel of the Suns as a terrorist organization, US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that Nicolás Maduro “will do it,” when asked whether the Venezuelan leader had offered to step down. At the same press conference, Trump announced that US ground operations against “narcoterrorists” in Venezuela would begin “very soon,” adding: “We know where they live. We know where the bad guys live.” His comments come as more details emerge of a phone call in which, according to Reuters and France 24, Maduro reportedly laid out specific conditions for leaving office.

  • Tuesday, December 2nd 2025 - 19:02 UTC

    Venezuela approves migrant repatriation flight from US despite Trump’s airspace closure claim

    Venezuela has regularly accepted repatriation flights in recent months, even as the US military has carried out strikes on small boats in the Caribbean, claiming they were involved in drug trafficking

    The Venezuelan government announced on Tuesday that it had approved a US request to operate a migrant repatriation flight, just days after President Donald Trump declared that Venezuelan airspace was “closed in its entirety.” The move, reported by The New York Times, highlights that communication between Washington and Caracas remains active despite escalating tensions over Trump’s military campaign against President Nicolás Maduro.

  • Tuesday, December 2nd 2025 - 10:59 UTC

    Maduro stays in Venezuela, rejects Trump's offer to resign

    Maduro, who is running out of options to resign and leave his country, reportedly asked for another call with Trump

    Venezuela's Bolivarian leader Nicolás Maduro was reported on Monday to have stayed in his country despite US President Donald Trump's offer to step down in exchange for immunity. During a private telephone conversation on Nov. 21, Washington rejected Maduro's terms and set a deadline for his departure, which has now expired.

  • Saturday, November 29th 2025 - 18:20 UTC

    Trump announces total closure of Venezuela’s airspace amid rising military tensions

    The White House described the airspace closure as a “security measure” aimed at preventing “illicit activity and threats to international aviation”

    US President Donald Trump announced on Saturday the complete closure of Venezuela’s airspace, further isolating the country and marking the most severe escalation in tensions between Washington and Caracas in decades.

  • Saturday, November 29th 2025 - 10:55 UTC

    Trump and Maduro talked last week, says NYT

    The NYT cited people in the know as confirming the phone conversation

    US President Donald Trump reportedly spoke with Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro last week to discuss a potential meeting, according to an article published by The New York Times (NYT) on Friday.

  • Tuesday, November 25th 2025 - 10:43 UTC

    US B-52 approaches Venezuelan coast as tension mounts

    There was no military response from Caracas to the US B-52's mission

    Just hours after designating the Cartel of the Suns as a terrorist organization of which Nicolás Maduro would be its leader, the United States forces conducted one of its closest flyovers of Venezuelan territory since the start of its military deployment in the southern Caribbean.

  • Monday, November 24th 2025 - 16:34 UTC

    US labels Maduro a terrorist as Venezuela slams ‘fabricated pretext’ for intervention

    Four senior US officials said the operation’s “second phase” — including covert missions and possible ground actions — could begin within days

    The United States escalated its confrontation with Caracas on Monday, officially designating Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and senior members of his government as part of an international terrorist organization. The move places the so-called Cartel of the Suns on the US State Department’s list of foreign terrorist groups — alongside Al-Qaeda and ISIS — and provides “new tools” for Washington’s expanding military campaign in the Caribbean.

  • Tuesday, November 18th 2025 - 10:59 UTC

    Maduro dares Trump to “face-to-face” conversation

    Maduro spoke in English when he said “face to face”

    Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro responded on Monday to recent comments by U.S. President Donald Trump regarding the possibility of talks, insisting that any future dialogue must be conducted “face to face.”

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