#washingtonpost.com. × #Feb.17.2026 Pentagon conducts strikes on three more alleged drug boats, killing 11. Three new strikes against alleged South American drug boats come as the Pentagon pulls its warships back from the region to refocus on the Middle East.
#South America × #USA #North America #Americas
#washingtonpost.com. × #Feb.14.2026 First major protests since capture of Maduro test Venezuela’s new leader. Scenes from a Youth Day march in Caracas, where demonstrators demanded that acting president Delcy Rodríguez release political prisoners.
#Politics #South America × #Venezuela #politician
#washingtonpost.com. × #Feb.12.2026 Judge says U.S. must allow deported Venezuelans to return for hearings. A federal judge in D.C. said some of the 137 Venezuelan men deported last year under the Alien Enemies Act can return to challenge their removals in court.
#South America × #USA #North America #Venezuela
#washingtonpost.com. × #Feb.02.2026 In Venezuela, change is coming fast. Relief is taking more time.. Washington and Caracas have moved quickly to open Venezuela’s oil sector to U.S. investment. Ordinary Venezuelans will wait longer to feel any benefit.
#South America × #Venezuela
#washingtonpost.com. × #Jan.30.2026 Trump says he’s reopening Venezuelan airspace and Americans may visit. Venezuelan officials welcomed the announcement, which followed the U.S. capture this month of their president, Nicolás Maduro.
#Politics #South America × #USA #North America #Nicolás Maduro #Venezuela
#washingtonpost.com. × #Jan.30.2026 Trump administration eases barriers for U.S. firms to sell Venezuelan oil. The Treasury Department announced a general license authorizing U.S. firms to trade Venezuelan oil after Caracas approved a law to improve terms for foreign investors.
#Politics #South America × #USA #North America #Venezuela
#washingtonpost.com. × #Jan.29.2026 Friction emerges between Trump and Venezuelan opposition over Machado’s return. The administration may prefer reliability over democracy in Caracas, worrying advocates for opposition leader María Corina Machado.
#Politics #South America × #USA #North America #Venezuela
#washingtonpost.com. × #Jan.28.2026 Trump’s Venezuela plan does not foresee more military force, Rubio says. Secretary of State Marco Rubio would not rule out another U.S. attack in Venezuela, but he told lawmakers the Trump administration does not intend to order one.
#South America × #USA #North America #Venezuela
#washingtonpost.com. × #Jan.27.2026 Trump threatens to raise tariffs on South Korea to 25%. President Trump said he would raise import levies for American buyers of South Korean cars, lumber, pharmaceuticals and other items, despite a deal reached in July.
#Politics #South America × #USA #Asia #North America #Americas #South Korea
#washingtonpost.com. × #Nov.16.2025 Column | Trump ups the ante in Venezuela standoff. The White House’s campaign of military pressure on Venezuela seems to be intensifying, yet there’s little clarity on its end goal.
#Politics #South America × #USA #North America #Venezuela
#washingtonpost.com. × #Nov.16.2025 One man’s obsessive quest to uncover Brazil’s buried Nazi past. The story of Brazil’s fugitive Nazis is clouded by uncertainty and conspiracy theories. But one local journalist is convinced he is closing in on the truth.
#Brazil #South America ×
#washingtonpost.com. × #Nov.15.2025 Trump’s Venezuela war threats roil Latin American leaders. President Trump’s tough approach to Latin America has showered rewards on some leaders. For others, it’s an unwelcome return to the long history of U.S. intervention.
#Politics #South America × #USA #North America #Venezuela #Americas
#washingtonpost.com. × #Nov.14.2025 Trump weighs Venezuela strikes as U.S. forces prepare for attack order. High-level discussions, underway for days, have explored a variety of potential military options, people familiar with the matter said.
#Politics #South America × #USA #North America #Venezuela
#washingtonpost.com. × #Nov.12.2025 U.S. allies begin to push back on Trump’s Caribbean military strikes. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, appearing at a G-7 gathering in Canada, faces renewed questions about America’s foreign policy aims.
#Canada #South America × #North America #Venezuela
#washingtonpost.com. × #Nov.12.2025 U.S. troops not liable in boat strikes, classified Justice Dept. memo says. In a classified memo, the Trump administration’s Office of Legal Counsel said that U.S. troops would not be liable for participating in boat strikes on alleged narco-traffickers.
#South America × #USA #North America #Venezuela
#washingtonpost.com. × #Nov.11.2025 If Trump attacked Venezuela, these sites could become targets. U.S. forces could pursue a range of options as targets, from Venezuelan military bases to cocaine refinery labs or clandestine airstrips, according to former U.S. and Venezuelan military officials.
#Politics #South America × #Venezuela
#washingtonpost.com. × #Nov.11.2025 Venezuela orders massive mobilization as U.S. aircraft carrier approaches. Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino López said that Venezuela would put the entire country’s military arsenal at the ready, including its militia and almost 200,000 soldiers.
#Politics #South America × #USA #North America #Venezuela
#washingtonpost.com. × #Nov.01.2025 Trump administration tells Congress war law doesn’t apply to cartel strikes. The Office of Legal Counsel told select lawmakers that the executive branch is not bound by the War Powers Resolution, which requires congressional approval for any military action that exceeds 60 days
#Politics #South America × #USA #North America #Venezuela
#washingtonpost.com. × #Mar.29.2025 Julio Simón, Argentine torturer convicted in landmark case, dies at 84. The 2006 trial for atrocities during Argentina’s military dictatorship began a wave of prosecutions more than a generation after the junta.
#South America × #Argentina
#washingtonpost.com. × #Mar.28.2025 Before DOGE, Argentina’s Javier Milei took a chainsaw to his government. In an interview with The Washington Post, Milei celebrated Elon Musk’s embrace of his chainsaw, calling it “an emblem of the new golden era of humanity.”
#Business #Politics #Tech #cls__sex_gdb_Male #South America × #USA #Elon Musk #Argentina #North America #Javier Milei #Americas
#washingtonpost.com. × #Mar.21.2025 The Wright brothers invented the airplane, right? Not if you’re in Brazil.. While the Wright brothers are widely recognized as the fathers of flight, Brazilians believe the true inventor of the airplane was one of their own.
#Aviation #Brazil #South America ×
#washingtonpost.com. × #Mar.16.2025 Trump’s aid freeze hampers anti-narcotics programs in Latin America. The aid freeze has upended anti-narcotics efforts in Latin America, with programs in Colombia, Mexico, and Ecuador affected.
#Politics #South America × #USA #North America #Ecuador #Colombia #Americas #Mexico
#washingtonpost.com. × #Mar.15.2025 Why is your morning joe so expensive? Brazil’s coffee farms have the answer.. Extreme weather is ravaging arabica harvests in Brazil, the world’s largest coffee producer, turning a cup of joe into something of a luxury item.
#Weather #Brazil #South America ×
#washingtonpost.com. × #Mar.15.2025 Rubio says South African ambassador to U.S. ‘no longer welcome’. Secretary of State Marco Rubio called South Africa’s U.S. ambassador, Ebrahim Rasool, “a race-baiting politician who hates America” and declared him persona non grata.
#Politics #Africa #South America × #South Africa #USA #North America #Americas #politician
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