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Venezuela’s Nobel Prize-winner bets big on Trump as pressure builds on Maduro
WASHINGTON - On January 6, 2025, four members of Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado’s team piled onto a couch in a Capitol Hill office, across from Mike Waltz, who was soon to become Donald Trump’s national security adviser. Machado...
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US sought to lure Venezuelan leader Maduro’s pilot into betraying him
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Anchorage Daily News - Alaska
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In this image made from a video posted on the Facebook account of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro on Dec. 15, 2023, Maduro stands behind pilot Gen. Bitner Villegas in the cockpit of an airplane. (AP Photo) MIAMI — The federal agent had a...
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Takeaways from AP's report on how US sought to lure Maduro's pilot into betraying Venezuelan leader
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Santa Maria Times - California
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MIAMI (AP) — A longtime U.S. law enforcement agent secretly tried to recruit Nicolas Maduro’s pilot to join a plot to capture the Venezuelan leader and deliver him into U.S. custody to face drug trafficking charges. Details of the plot are...
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US sought to lure Nicolás Maduro’s pilot into betraying the Venezuelan leader
By JOSHUA GOODMAN, Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — The federal agent had a daring pitch for Nicolás Maduro’s chief pilot: All he had to do was surreptitiously divert the Venezuelan president’s plane to a place where U.S. authorities could nab the...
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Heavy Russian cargo plane lands in Caracas amid US-Venezuela tensions
BERLIN — A Russian transport aircraft of a type linked to the country’s military and former Wagner mercenary group has landed in the Venezuelan capital over the weekend, signaling heightened Russian interest in the Latin American country. The...
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Venezuelans keep defending territorial integrity amidst US threats
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Press TV
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Gladys Quesada Press TV, Caracas The United States is increasing its military presence in the Caribbean in a clear threat against Venezuela. However, people in the Latin American country remain calm amid regional tensions. Press TV correspondent...
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Cuba and Venezuela Build Advanced Intelligence Network to Track US Activity
Cuba and Venezuela, with support from Russia and China, operate a sophisticated electronic intelligence network that monitors US military activity across the Caribbean, Militarist Telegram channel reports. Venezuelan Capabilities Remain Largely...
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Venezuela claims to have captured ‘CIA backed cell plotting false flag attack’ as tensions with US grow
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Venezuela proposes, Maduro approves suspension of gas deals with T&T
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Venezuela has proposed that all of its gas agreements with Trinidad and Tobago be immediately suspended. The proposal was last night approved by Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro, who confirmed this in an interview on Venezuelan State...
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Is Trump pushing for regime change in Venezuela; where else is he meddling?
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has accused the US government of “fabricating a new eternal war” against him, as the aircraft carrier USS Gerald R Ford inches towards the Venezuelan coast. The US deployment of the carrier – the world’s largest...
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Beyond Legal Status: Rethinking Immigration and Health in Rural America
This story was originally published by Barn Raiser, your independent source for rural and small town news. For immigrants on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, documentation does not guarantee access to health care. This article draws from the author’s...
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Venezuela Puts Energy Partnership And Joint Gas Projects With Trinidad On Hold
Home North America Venezuela Puts Energy Partnership And Joint Gas Projects With Trinidad On Hold His order immediately suspended all aspects of the energy agreement with Trinidad and Tobago, Maduro said, and Congress and the Supreme Court will be...
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Venezuela claims it captured mercenaries with ties to CIA plotting a ‘false flag’ attack
Venezuela claimed it captured a “mercenary group” linked to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) on Sunday, and accused them of aiming to spark a military conflict with the South American country. “A false flag attack is underway in waters...
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Venezuela suspends Trinidad and Tobago gas accord over US warship visit
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Yahoo News
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Venezuela has suspended a major gas deal with neighbouring Trinidad and Tobago, citing the island nation’s reception of a United States warship. President Nicolas Maduro ordered the “immediate suspension” of a deal to provide natural gas to...
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How Venezuelan Regime Is Supporting Radical, Left-Wing Groups in US
Venezuela’s regime is coming under increasing pressure from the Trump administration for using the cartels it controls to smuggle drugs into the United States. Last week, President Donald Trump said he had authorized covert CIA actions inside the...
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US agent’s daring plot to coax Nicolas Maduro’s pilot into turning on the Venezuelan leader and delivering him into custody
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US military kills 14 in attacks on vessels in the Pacific, according to Hegseth
The US military on Monday carried out three deadly strikes on four vessels in the eastern Pacific Ocean, announced Pete Hegseth, the Trump administration’s defense secretary, on Tuesday. Fourteen were killed in the attacks while one survived,...
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Venezuela Claims CIA 'False Flag' Attack Foiled As US Increases Pressure By Deploying Bombers
Last Updated:October 28, 2025, 11:42 IST Venezuelan Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello stated Monday that a CIA-financed cell planned to attack the USS Gravely and blame Caracas. USS Gravely warship crew stand on the bow and starboard of the...
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Venezuela ‘Scrambles’ F-16s As US B-1 Bombers ‘Approach’, Warship Burke ‘Takes Serious Position’ |4K
A pair of B-1B bombers flew over the Caribbean Sea off the coast of Venezuela on Monday (Oct. 28), flight tracking data showed, in the third such show of force by US military aircraft in recent weeks.The flight of the long-range supersonic bombers...
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Takeaways from AP's report on how US sought to lure Maduro's pilot into betraying Venezuelan leader
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Yahoo News
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MIAMI (AP) — A longtime U.S. law enforcement agent secretly tried to recruit Nicolas Maduro’s pilot to join a plot to capture the Venezuelan leader and deliver him into U.S. custody to face drug trafficking charges. Details of the plot are...
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