Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the world Donald Trump has launched the most brazen foreign policy gambit of his second presidency, capturing and toppling Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro in an operation to assert US dominance in the western hemisphere. The … Read more
US energy companies will return to Venezuela with “billions of dollars” to invest, said Donald Trump, as he put oil at the heart of his plan for regime change in the resource rich country. The president said on Saturday that American drillers — most of which abandoned Venezuela decades ago — would rebuild its oil … Read more
In the Tea Room of his Mar-a-Lago resort on Saturday morning, Donald Trump triumphantly announced details of the overnight US mission to topple and capture Nicolás Maduro in the heart of Caracas. But the US president went far beyond that: he also pledged that Washington would now “run” Venezuela until further notice, raising the prospect … Read more
Shortly before 11pm on Friday, Donald Trump ordered the US military to launch an operation in the dead of night to snatch the leader of Venezuela Nicolás Maduro from his compound in Caracas. “Good luck, and god speed,” Trump said, as he gave the command. Within hours Maduro was in US custody, captured as he … Read more
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the world As military operations go, the US kidnapping of Nicolás Maduro was seamless. But Donald Trump’s Venezuela story is only just beginning. Having ousted its leader, Trump now enthusiastically owns the aftermath. “We’re going … Read more
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the world Now that President Donald Trump has captured the leader of Venezuela’s revolutionary socialist government, the immediate question is whether an increasingly brutal regime that has endured for more than a quarter of a … Read more
After almost a decade of threats against Venezuela, President Donald Trump said on Saturday that US forces had infiltrated the country and extracted the country’s authoritarian President Nicolás Maduro and his wife. Below is the history of US relations with Venezuela from 2017, during Trump’s first term in office, onwards. July 2017 Maduro, who succeeded … Read more
Just a few days ago, Nicolás Maduro was dancing at rallies, lighting up Christmas trees and launching an AI-generated music video called “Peace Forever” that showed him walking through the jungle with a robed, Jesus-like figure by his side. By Saturday morning, such efforts to project confidence in the face of mounting US pressure had … Read more
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the world Washington has for months been threatening military action against Venezuela — but when the blasts began before dawn on Saturday, they took residents by surprise. First, the capital Caracas was rocked by a … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. India’s richest man is stepping up a battle against Coca-Cola and Pepsi for the country’s fizzy drinks market with a 50-year-old brand last popular when the country’s economy was largely shut off to foreign business. … Read more