カテゴリー: Nicolás Maduro
Miguel Díaz‑Canel says Cuba is willing to engage Washington amid the island’s deepening economic crisisAfter months of threats from Donald Trump, the president of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel, has said that his government is willing to talk to the United St…
Maduro’s Sorbonne-educated successor is talking up an era of ‘reform and opening up’ modelled on China’s post-Mao boomAfter years of political and social upheaval, hunger and despair, the Great Helmsman departs and is replaced by a francophile economic…
Perception that Chinese-made weapons could not stop a ‘decapitation strike’ may give Beijing pause for thoughtThe sight of a hostile regional superpower launching an overnight raid to depose the leader of a smaller neighbouring country could easily hav…
Maduro had just affirmed ‘strong bonds of brotherhood’ with Beijing when US made its shocking interventionVenezuela crisis – latest updatesHours before his life and the fate of his country was changed dramatically, Venezuela’s leader, Nicolás Maduro, w…
Trump again called for Venezuela’s president to leave power and said the US would keep or sell the oil it had seizedChina and Russia have expressed support for Venezuela as it confronts a US blockade of sanctioned oil tankers, while Donald Trump contin…
From India to Venezuela and Senegal to the US, democracy was tested, as more people voted than in any year beforeIn January, as this bumper year of elections got under way, breathless editorials and reheated hot takes made it clear the stakes could not…