What to Know About Colombia’s Role in the Global Drug Trade Amid Trump’s Feud With Petro
President Gustavo Petro is locked in a war of words with President Trump over Colombia’s major role in the global drug trade. The issue is complicated.
Venezuela
How Oil, Drugs and Immigration Fueled Trump’s Venezuela Campaign
New details of deliberations show how aides with overlapping agendas drove the United States toward a militarized confrontation with Venezuela.
A Dancing Dictator and Bankers in Chains: The Other Venezuela Blockade
A crisis more than a century ago involved U.S. aims to assert military supremacy, a hard-partying dictator and frictions among the great powers.
Venezuela says it released 99 people detained for 2024 election protests
Government said the move was due to its ‘unrestricted respect for human rights’ in the face of US aggressionVenezuela has said it has carried out its largest release of political prisoners this year, claiming to have freed 99 people detained for taking…
Why the ‘Double Tap’ Incident Matters Far Beyond a Single Strike
EXPERT OPINION — For about a week we experienced significant controversy over the first military attack on alleged narco-trafficker small boats off the coast of Venezuela (and later Ecuador). The controversy began with news that the Secretary of Defen…
2025: 10 Events That Changed the World
SPECIAL REPORT — In a turbulent year, one of the biggest national security stories came in the form of a document.The administration’s National Security Strategy (NSS), released earlier this month, upends longstanding U.S. policy toward allies and adv…
Third oil tanker seized by Trump admin as threats against Venezuela escalate: report
A third oil tanker in the Caribbean was boarded and seized Sunday by the U.S. military as the Trump administration’s military threats against Venezuela continue to escalate, Bloomberg reported.The vessel is known as the “Bella 1,” a sea vessel sanctio…
Trump wants you to love him again. What he’ll do to woo you is insane
Donald Trump is ready to launch an illegitimate war against a nation that did us no harm in a cynical bid to make America love him again.I think it’s that simple.No, his war-mongering isn’t about the midterms. If the president cared about politics, he…
I called in artillery in Vietnam — I can tell you Trump and his henchmen are full of it
Idaho’s U.S. Sen. Jim Risch proclaimed in a Dec. 11 meeting of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee that the “attacks in the Caribbean are absolutely, totally and 100 percent legal under U.S. law and international law.”Those strikes have produc…
U.S. and Venezuela Jam Caribbean GPS Signals to Thwart Attacks, Raising Flight Hazard
Military brinkmanship between President Trump and Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela has led to an increase in electronic warfare in the region.