A five-year-old boy seized on his way home in Minnesota and now locked up in Texas. His family didn't know where he was for 24 hours.

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Under interim leader Delcy Rodríguez, the Venezuelan regime has freed some of an estimated 800 political prisoners detained under Nicolás Maduro. But at least 50 more have disappeared inside the system, and their families are desperate for answers www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...

Ik vind deze campagne erg belangrijk - doe je ook mee? actie.degoedezaak.org/petitions/bo...

Vandaag in de krant mijn repo uit Cuba. Een land in diepe crisis, met tekort aan eten en medicijnen. Inwoners vrezen dat door de Amerikaanse druk en zonder Venezolaanse olie het nog slechter zal gaan. Maar ook twijfels of die druk tot de val van het regime gaan leiden. www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...

What an excellent piece, clear-eyed while not falling prey to despair. One Year of Trump. The Time to Act Is Now, While We Still Can. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/o...

'Amerika heeft afgedaan, Europa moet worden gedekoloniseerd.' 'David van Weel moet worden gedekoloniseerd. Mark Rutte moet worden gedekoloniseerd.' Prachtige column Caroline de Gruyter! Cadeau artikel @nrc.nl www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...

Love the approved reading list to diminish Bolsonaro’s time in jail. He’ll come out leftwing 😜

Meanwhile, Venezuela is still ruled by the same gang of thugs and thieves. Machado is going to learn the same lesson that the law firms, universities, and corporations who have caved to Trump have learned: it is a bottomless pit of need and pandering never works.

Waarom het Mercosur-handelsverdrag het medicijn tegen het trumpisme is

The murder of indigenous environmental defender Berta Cáceres in Honduras in 2016 was a criminal operation funded by two development banks diverted from an extractive project to pay for illegal activities and murder, says the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights insightcrime.org/news/report-...

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ICE officers tell media that the conduct in Minneapolis is part of a plan by Stephen Miller to provoke as much violence and death as possible—which in turn will be taken as pretext for more. “They’re essentially operating now in a resource constraint-free environment and doing very dangerous things”

Gooi de Verenigde Staten uit de Navo

“Maduro’s ouster initially led to a sense of relief in Venezuela, for people across the political spectrum,” Armando Ledezma writes. “That relief quickly faded, however, as we realized how much uncertainty lies ahead.” newyorkermag.visitlink.me/dqPfLb

Het gaat steeds verder

Trump zou Groenland onder meer willen hebben voor de cruciale zeldzame aardmetalen. Maar die zitten overal. De schaarste zit in de raffinagecapaciteit, en die staat grotendeels in China, zegt Christopher Christiaanse.

Venezuelan regime touts ‘mass release’ of political prisoners but many say repression continues NGOs estimate that there are still close to 1,000 political prisoners in Venezuela despite claims by new leaders www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

NATO should have asked for references from the Dutch people. We had to suffer his trivializing of all crises and his inability to solve problems for more than 14 years. He is the wrong man in the wrong place at the wrong moment. #Rutte #Nato #Trump #Greenland

Exactly. Trump is a rightwing Maduro. A Venezuelan friend said to me after Maduro was abducted and his government stayed as it was: now we have to choose between the plague and cholera

“Restoring Venezuela’s oil industry is completely unrealistic in the short term and might not be in America’s economic and geopolitical interests at all,” Rogé Karma argues.

Bijna een jaar lang werden dreigementen van Trump door Mexico weggezet als "grote woorden". Na de inval van Venezuela is men echter wakker geschrokken. Mexico kan zomaar de volgende zijn, hoe hecht de onderlinge relatie ook is. De zorgen zijn groot, schrijf ik voor @nrc.nl www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...

“Uruguay did what most nations still call impossible: it built a power grid that runs almost entirely on renewables—at half the cost of fossil fuels. The physicist who led that transformation says the same playbook could work anywhere—if governments have the courage to change the rules.”

The ICC is under U.S. siege, the majority of Dutch journalists don’t seem te care. The new MAGA world order is here.

México mágico! Pre-hispanic discovery in San Pedro Jaltepetongo, Oaxaca: while digging a trench last Saturday, local workers found an ancient Mixtec tomb, possibly from the Postclassic period. Among the findings are gold pendants, plates, vessels, and funerary remains of the ancient inhabitants.

A Black man was killed by ICE (off duty) in Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve. And like Renée Good, he was an American citizen. But most people have not heard about Keith Porter. I need y’all to realize this. Black people experience this lack of visibility all the time when it comes to being victims.

Mexicaanse ‘ijskoningin’ Sheinbaum laat zich niet door Trump provoceren

Agree

Van een 92-jarige rechter tot een invloedrijke first lady: dit is het Venezuela-smoelenboek

Venezuela’s new president is no moderate

‘She was the brains, Maduro was the brawn’: Cilia Flores’ role in Venezuela Flores, Nicolás Maduro’s wife, wielded far more power than just being a first lady and played a front line role in politics www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Who Gets to Explain Venezuela?: https://www.caracaschronicles.com/2026/01/06/who-gets-to-explain-venezuela/

Venezolaanse vluchtelingen tussen hoop en vrees na de val van Maduro: ‘Ik vertrouw het nog niet helemaal’

The first thing the U.S. did after abducting Maduro was making sure his regime remains in power. Today, seven Venezuelan reporters were arrested by the regime in Caracas. This is not, never was and never will be about democracy and freedom for Venezuela.

Mijn dierbaar Europa, Het is tijd om de bEUk erin te gooien. En de agenda van Trump te breken, vóórdat die ons breekt. Met Ruttiaans slijmen stuur je de agenda van Trump niet bij. Our window of opportunity is closing. Act now, please. Met warme groet, Een bezorgde Europeaan

Venezuela heeft de meeste olie ter wereld, maar willen bedrijven er wel investeren?

Good lord

Let's say you're part of Venezuela's government/military elite, you want to get rid of Maduro AND avoid the opposition's rise to power Why not strike a deal to betray Maduro? You could gamble that the US president loses interest in your country soon after he cried "mission accomplished".

In stil Caracas strijden angst en honger om voorrang: ‘Mijn hart zei dat dit ging gebeuren’

That’s what I keep asking myself: do they really need so much oil?? #Venezuela

Ik ben even op het gruwelijke X gaan buurten omdat er hier weinig tot geen Venezuela zit. Paar dingetjes: Het belangrijkste is de opluchting en de vreugde van de aanhangers van de oppositie dat Maduro weg is, het leedvermaak over hoe hij op zijn slippertjes is afgevoerd. Na alle ellende van

Trump dismissed the idea of working with Nobel Peace Prize winner María Corina Machado on a political transition for Venezuela, a setback for the opposition leader who won international acclaim in her fight for democracy in the country.

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‘Naked imperialism’: how Trump intervention in Venezuela is a return to form for the US

Zo is het ook nog eens een keer #Venezuela

Als dit mogelijk is, is het hek van de dam en is er geen rem meer voor Poetin en Xi. Argument dat Maduro een schoft is telt niet, want dat zijn veel dictators. Volgens het int recht mag dit niet. Volgende halte Groenland?

Zo is dat

Maduro is a brutal and oppressive dictator of Venezuela. Trump has no legitimate legal basis for military action against Venezuela under United States or international law. Both of those facts are simultaneously true.

Capturing Maduro was the easiest part and now what? I predict a big mess because the top of Venezuela’s armed forces has been bought by Maduro and his cronies. Watch particularly Secretary of Home Affairs Diosdado Cabello and vice-president Delcy Rodríguez. They will dig in. They not only have the

Eens! Repo geeft een heel goed beeld van belangen VS in Venezuela en de rest van Latijns Amerika