US oil companies have never stopped investing and operating in Venezuela’s petroleum industry, despite many changes in the terms of their engagement.
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The interim president, Delcy Rodríguez, is consolidating her power and has signalled a willingness to work with the Trump administration.
After decades of hostility, Venezuela’s support became crucial to Cuba’s survival.
Several other Latin American countries now sit squarely in Washington’s crosshairs.
The personal fortune of Donald Trump is also thought to have soared thanks to his crypto holdings.
Conditions on the ground in Cuba are so grim that the Trump administration thinks Havana could fall without any US intervention.
The American operation in Venezuela was completely unprecedented. The outcome promises to be risky for Donald Trump, a Latin American expert explains.
Perhaps no one outside of Venezuela should care more about the US invasion and capture of President Nicolás Maduro than the Islamic Republic of Iran’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei.
There are good reasons why Venezuela’s oil has been trading at a discount.
How various factions respond to the Trump administration’s threat to be the de facto ruler of the country could quickly inflame domestic tensions and lead to conflict.
Talk of regime change brings up uncomfortable memories of the chaos after the overthrow of Iraq’s Saddam Hussein.
Successful American action in Venezuela and threats against Greenland suggest the rules-based international order that emerged following the Second World War is now on life support.
Trump has transgressed the only recognisable facet of what political identity Starmer actually has: the rule of law.
The capture of Nicolas Maduro marks a return to gunboat diplomacy, or as the US president says: the ‘Donroe doctrine’.
The US attack on Venezuela highlights a shifting American foreign policy that dismisses a rules-based global order and focuses on economic interests and military might.
The contrasting reactions of Venezuelans to Maduro’s capture reveal a moment shaped as much by uncertainty and suspicion as by relief and hope.
Canada and Venezuela compete in the same heavy-oil regional and global markets, so shifts in supply from Canada to Venezuela would widely reverberate across the Canadian economy.
Trump’s Venezuela intervention has divided his ‘America first’ support base.
It’s a blatant breach of international law which which will encourage Russia and China to follow suit.
Hugo Chavez and Nicolas Maduro long resisted US attempts to influence Venezuelan politics and exert control over its oil reserves.
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Professor of Management and Organization, University of Southern California
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Richard von Weizsäcker Fellow na Bosch Academy e Co-fundador, Instituto Igarapé; Princeton University
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Professor of History, Temple University
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