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The record cocaine haul and a panicked ‘insider’: US outlines case against Maduro
For customs agents at Paris’ Charles de Gaulle airport, what they found inside 30 suitcases was like nothing they had ever seen.
- by Colin Freeman
Latest
Nobel winner backs ‘courageous’ Trump over raid – but issues warning
The Venezuelan political leader who fled the country last month thanked the US president, but sounded the alarm over her country’s new Trump-backed interim leader.
- by David Crowe
US-Venezuela as it happened: Maduro appears in New York court; UN condemns US strike; Machado praises Trump’s ‘courageous vision’
Deposed Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro and his wife have appeared in a Manhattan federal court, as opinion on the Caracas operation continues to split. Follow our rolling coverage.
- by Ellen Connolly, Jack Gramenz and Daniel Lo Surdo
‘No one knew how powerful she was’: Why Celia Flores was arrested alongside her husband
The older, bespectacled woman cuts an unusual figure among the murderers, gangbangers and drug lords beside her in detention. But her rap sheet is far more serious.
- by Colin Freeman
Opinion
Venezuela crisis
Trump takes out Maduro. But can the Democrats take out Trump?
After Caracas, you must believe exactly what Trump says is coming.
- by Bruce Wolpe
No medicine, no power, and $4.50 a month: The daily misery of Maduro’s Venezuela
When news of the president’s capture pinged on Fabiola Campbell’s phone in Australia at the weekend, she was overcome by a wave of relief.
- by Marta Pascual Juanola
US won’t govern Venezuela, Rubio says, as Trump threatens Maduro deputy
Venezuela’s interim leader may pay a hefty price “if she doesn’t do what’s right”, Trump warned, and said other territories – including Colombia – may be subject to American intervention.
- by Andy Sullivan and Regina Garcia Cano