Venezuela’s Machado is backing Trump against Maduro - allies say they’ve tried everything else
Opposition leader who won Nobel Peace Prize is running out of alternatives for overthrowing Maduro
Venezuela
Why is Latin America shifting hard right?
Chile looks set to elect its most right-wing president since Pinochet on Sunday, reflecting a broader regional swing away from leftist governments
US issues new sanctions targeting Venezuela oil sector and Maduro’s family
The Trump administration is seeking the legal authority to seize the oil from the tanker that US forces boarded
US preparing to intercept more Venezuelan ships, say sources
Russia and Belarus contact president Nicolás Maduro, raising possibility that he will seek refuge abroad
Nobel Peace Prize winner urges world to cut flow of money to Venezuela’s repressive regime
María Corina Machado gives tacit endorsement to US pressure on country’s authoritarian president Nicolás Maduro
US forces seize oil tanker off Venezuela coast, escalating pressure from Trump on Maduro
Official says US conducted ‘judicial enforcement action on a stateless vessel’ that was last docked in country
Nobel Peace Prize winner’s daughter accepts award on her behalf
Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado’s speech was delivered at Oslo ceremony by her daughter
‘I knew nothing about this island’: From Venezuela to Ireland
Maria Isabel Meza-Silva moved to Ireland from South America in 2017
What’s behind Trump’s power play in the Caribbean?
As drug-cartel operations, migration and China reshape the region, the US is pushing a revived Monroe Doctrine for the 21st century
Focus turns to ‘fog of war’ Pete Hegseth over US missile strike on Venezuelan boat
Defence secretary robustly defends attack on alleged gunboat, as Democrats lambast ‘unserious and unqualified individual’
Is Trump starting a war with Venezuela?
In the News podcast: US says attacks on boats is part of war on drugs
‘Hello, are you in Galway tonight?’ Sex trafficking was here long before the Epstein files
Term 'sex industry' camouflages the reality of young women holed up in apartments and lonely houses, being transported in vans, being used and abused by Irish men
US radar in Trinidad triggers fears Caribbean could be dragged into Venezuela crisis
Prime minister faces accusations of secrecy after confirming presence of US marines
Family’s food truck destroyed by arson attack in Dublin: ‘Nothing is left’
Finglas community rallies around popular food outlet, with GoFundMe raising thousands
Trump may find momentum of US military build-up targeting Venezuela hard to resist
US president spoke to Maduro and demanded he resign immediately but Venezuelan leader refused, the Miami Herald reports
Deported Venezuelans desperate to be reunited with their children
Across the US, a growing number of Venezuelan children whose parents were deported back to their home country have been left behind
Venezuela denounces ‘colonialist threat’ as Trump orders airspace closed
Move follows warning from US aviation regulator of ‘potentially hazardous situation’ when flying over Venezuela
Trump floats Venezuela talks as US labels Maduro a terrorist
Terror designation may expand legal case for more aggressive action as US masses military in Caribbean after months of deadly boat strikes
How the ‘heavy metal’ fall of a 1980s dictator shapes Donald Trump’s Venezuela policy now
Toppling Panama’s leader more than 30 years ago looks easier than ousting Nicolás Maduro today
Pentagon’s biggest warship enters Latin American waters amid rising US-Venezuela tensions
USS Gerald R Ford’s arrival is largest US military presence in region since 1989 Panama invasion
Venezuela braces for possible US strike amid military decay and internal dissent
Regime forces focus not on defence but on quashing dissent, analysts and opposition figures say
US military officials required to sign NDAs over Latin American operations
Concern over military build-up that Venezuela fear may lead to an invasion
US sends aircraft carrier to South America as airstrike on ‘drug boat’ kills six
Build-up of troops has raised speculation Trump could try to topple Venezuelan president
US military strikes alleged drug-trafficking boat in Pacific
Previous attacks on vessels in Caribbean have killed at least 32 people
UN experts say US strikes against Venezuela in international waters amount to ‘extrajudicial executions’
Venezuelan foreign minister says experts ‘corroborate what we have been denouncing’
US admiral to retire amid military strikes in Caribbean and tensions with Venezuela
Alvin Holsey just took over the US southern command late last year for a position that normally lasts three years
Trump says six killed in US strike on boat allegedly carrying drugs off Venezuela’s coast
Attack was on vessel ‘associated with illicit narcoterrorist networks’, says US president, without giving evidence
Trump is deploying the military to wage war against an imagined ‘enemy within’
Worldview: The US president has been rapidly intensifying domestic military operations during his second term
Who is Nobel Peace laureate María Corina Machado?
Venezuelan opposition leader is in hiding and banned from holding public office
Smurfit Westrock yet to convince tough Wall Street crowd of mega-merger’s merits
Shares in the group have fallen more than 7% since the merged entity’s debut on the New York Stock Exchange in July last year
Trump announces deadly US strike on another alleged Venezuelan drug boat
Venezuelan president’s inner circle now think Washington is preparing to invade
Venezuela says 11 killed in US boat strike were not gang members
Trump administration has provided scant information about strike
‘Oil not the panacea it appears to be for economies’: Campaigners in Guyana take the fight to ExxonMobil
‘Lop-sided’ deal with US giant over offshore discovery leaves communities without protection or benefits, activists say
Guyana’s high-stakes oil and climate debate - and Ireland’s role in it
The small South American country is ‘a living paradox’, pursuing the promise of oil while facing the potential peril of climate change
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