Gunfire in the streets of a Latin American capital. U.S. military troops swooping in by helicopter. A foreign leader, accused of drug trafficking, hauled off to America in handcuffs.The Trump administration’s Jan. 3 capture of President Nicolás Maduro bore some familiar echoes to the 1989 U.S. invasion of Panama that ousted military strongman Manuel Noriega […]
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Growing Iran protests rattle leaders as Trump threatens to intervene – NBC News
news AlertsThere are no new alerts at this timeWidespread protests have rocked Iran for nearly a week and led to increasing violent clashes with security forces, prompting President Donald Trump to threaten intervention if a crackdown continues.The protests, which started with economic grievances by shopkeepers in Tehran and quickly spread to remote cities in provinces […]
‘Naked imperialism’: how Trump intervention in Venezuela is a return to form for the US – The Guardian
Most of the Americas have suffered from interference from their powerful northern neighbour – and are usually the worse off for itMaduro detained in New York – live updatesThe US bombardment of Venezuela and the capture of its president, Nicolás Maduro, follow a long history of interventions in South and Central America and the Caribbean […]
Rubio claims US is running 'the direction' of Venezuela situation – ABC News
Rubio claims US is running ‘the direction’ of Venezuela situation ABC Newssource
After Trump’s illegal Venezuela coup, there are two dangers: he is emboldened, but has no clue what comes next – The Guardian
The US president used largely fictitious charges to seize control, but can’t know how Venezuelans will react. He may also overstep now as regards IranDuring his presidential campaigns, Donald Trump pledged to end “forever wars”, abandon “nation-building” interventions and focus instead on reviving a US economy that, in his telling, had been deindustrialised by a […]