The Latest Breaking News from Nicolás Maduro

US gets first $500 million Venezuelan oil deal, but the money isn’t going where you’d think

It's Trump, what else did Americans expect?

We Got This Covered · Jan 17

Principles jettisoned, is former Trump foe Marco Rubio playing the long game?

The secretary of state – a neoconservative foreign policy hawk turned America First cheerleader – has defied expectations that he would not last in Trump’s cabinet

The Guardian - US · Jan 17

Americans disapprove of Trump’s foreign policy. His escapades are likely to cost him

History tells us what happens when American presidents focus on foreign policy and neglect domestic economic policy

The Guardian - US · Jan 17

Trump has pulled back from the brink on Iran – for now

When he returned to power last year, Trump was eager to negotiate a new deal with Tehran, but a diplomatic breakthrough has been elusive

The Guardian - US · Jan 16

Currying Favor

Plus: Starlink in Iran, lady activism in Minnesota, and more...

Reason · Jan 16

First Venezuelan Oil Sale Under Trump Plan Went to Major Campaign Donor's Firm

The first U.S.-brokered sale of Venezuelan crude under President Donald Trump's new energy plan went to Vitol, a global oil trading firm whose senior U.S.-based trader has been a major donor to Trump's re-election campaign.

International Business Times · Jan 16

Giving Trump the Nobel peace prize medal is ‘absurd’, say Norwegian politicians

US president criticised for accepting medal awarded to Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado

The Guardian - UK · Jan 16

Cuban Soldier Describes His Experience During Raid That Captured Maduro: 'It Was Disproportionate'

A Cuban soldier described the scenes that unfolded when U.S. troops arrived in Caracas to capture authoritarian President Nicolas Maduro.

Latin Times · Jan 16

First Thing: Death of ICE camp detainee could be investigated as homicide after examiner’s report

Washington Post says local medical examiner found ‘asphyxia’ to be cause of Geraldo Lunas Campos’s death. Plus, how Trump’s dismantling of federal agencies has impacted children with cancer

The Guardian - UK · Jan 16

Jimmy Kimmel trolls Trump after taking Nobel Peace Prize medal from the actual winner: ‘It’s like a pacifier’

The talk show host also poked fun at the meagre gift that Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Machado was given by the president in return

The Independent UK · Jan 16