US Vice President JD Vance (AP) US Vice President JD Vance on Sunday defended Washington’s decision to launch military action against Venezuela, saying the country has long been linked to drug trafficking and has used seized American oil assets to support what he described as “narcoterrorist activities.”His comments followed a “large-scale strike against Venezuela” carried […]
Asif Amin Cheema, 63, a longtime Chicago-area resident who owned the fast-food lunch restaurant Best Sub #2 in Humboldt Park, 2653 W. North Ave, was deported Thursday night on an evening flight out of O’Hare Airport to his home country of Pakistan, his family said.Cheema’s official deportation came after the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of […]
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the Cuban government was “a huge problem” when he was asked in an interview with NBC News’ “Meet the Press” whether the Trump administration’s next target was the Cuban government.Rubio is speaking to several US media outlets after the US launched an operation and removed the oil-rich country’s […]
In the hours following the dramatic capture of Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro, a wave of protests appeared across major US cities with remarkable speed and coordination. According to reporting by Fox News, a cluster of US-based socialist, Marxist and communist organisations moved swiftly from online messaging to street mobilisation, framing the arrest as an act […]
The United States is prepared to work with Venezuela’s remaining leadership if they “make the right decision,” secretary of state Marco Rubio said on Sunday, a day after US forces captured President Nicolás Maduro in a military operation.“We’re going to judge everything by what they do, and we’re going to see what they do,” Rubio […]
US secretary of war Pete Hegseth (AP) US secretary of war Pete Hegseth said Washington’s midnight military operation in Venezuela on Saturday, which also led to the capture of President Nicolas Maduro and his wife was the “exact opposite” of the 2003 Iraq invasion and would not result in prolonged conflict or American casualties.Addressing concerns […]
Former Vice President Kamala Harris issued a statement condemning Donald Trump’s action in Venezuela, only to be reminded of her 2019 post where she called the situation in Venezuela a crisis. “What’s happening in Venezuela is a crisis. The people who have fled Maduro’s dictatorial regime deserve safety and protection. As President, I would immediately […]
Nicolas Maduro’s political life reads less like a conventional rise to power and more like a sequence of improbable turns. A bus driver who became president, a socialist who embraced mysticism, a leader who mixed revolution with ritual, and a man who spoke of destiny even as his grip on power narrowed. As he faces […]
Greece’s health minister Adonis Georgiadis said people who never called him for anything have now started calling him, asking him about Kimberly Guilfoyle, the US ambassador to Greece, as her appointment raised several questions as to whether Trump was not serious about Greece etc., the New York Times reported. Everybody wants to meet her. When […]
In the early hours of Saturday morning, at 4.21 am, President Donald Trump announced on social media that the United States had captured Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro. Ten minutes later, his phone rang. On the line was Tyler Pager, a White House correspondent for The New York Times. After three rings, Trump answered. By 9.45 […]
