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  1. Venezuela’s leader to defend claim over Guyana

    Venezuela’s interim President Delcy Rodriguez (AFP-Yonhap) CARACAS (AP) — Venezuela’s acting President Delcy Rodriguez arrived in the Netherlands…
    #Conflict #Conflicts #War #arbitration #Delcy #Guyana #mineral #oil #Venezuela
    europesays.com/2980581/

  2. Delcy Rodriguez heads to The Hague in Guyana land dispute case

    Delcy Rodriguez is heading to The Hague for the guyana land dispute case at the International Court of…
    #Netherlands #Nederland #NL #Europe #Europa #EU #TheHague #case #Delcy #dispute #Guyana #HAGUE #heads #Land #Rodriguez #the
    europesays.com/netherlands/101

  3. The Venezuelan opposition leader #María #Corina #Machado has
    💥vowed to return to the country as soon as possible and rejected the authority of the interim president backed – for now – by the US after it forcibly removed Nicolás Maduro from power.

    Machado told Fox News from an undisclosed location that her movement was ready to win a free #election, and praised Donald Trump for toppling Maduro.

    Many in Venezuela and abroad had expected Machado to take charge of the country after Maduro’s detention on Saturday
    -- but Trump sidelined her and gave his backing to Maduro’s former vice-president, #Delcy #Rodríguez.

    “I’m planning to go back to Venezuela as soon as possible,”
    Machado said in the interview.
    “We believe that this transition should move forward.
    We won an election [in 2024] by a landslide under fraudulent conditions.
    In free and fair elections, we will win over 90% of the votes.”

    ⚠️She accused Rodríguez of being “one of the main architects of torture, persecution, corruption, narco-trafficking” in Venezuela and said repression had increased since the weekend.

    The industrial engineer, 58, also said 👉she had not spoken to Trump since 10 October, the day it was announced that she had won the Nobel peace prize.

    “But I do want to say today, on behalf of the Venezuelan people,
    how grateful we are for his courageous vision,
    the actions – historical actions – he has taken against this narco-terrorist regime, to start dismantling this structure and bringing Maduro to justice,” she said.

    The Wall Street Journal reportedthat Trump had decided to back Rodríguez after CIA analysts briefed him that Machado and her electoral candidate. -- the retired diplomat #Edmundo #González #Urrutia, “would struggle to gain legitimacy as leaders while facing resistance from pro-regime security services, drug-trafficking networks and political opponents”.

    The Washington Post, however, reported the decision may have been more personal -- that Trump may have been irritated that Machado accepted the prize.

    “If she had turned it down and said: ‘I can’t accept it because it’s Donald Trump’s,’
    she’d be the president of Venezuela today,” a source told the paper.

    Asked by Fox News whether she had offered to give Trump the prize, Machado said:
    “It hasn’t happened yet,
    but I would certainly love to be able to personally tell him that we believe the Venezuelan people – because this is a prize of the Venezuelan people – certainly want to give it to him and share it with him.”

    Trump has said he wants to work with Rodríguez and the rest of Maduro’s former team -- provided they submit to US demands on oil.
    He has poured cold water on the idea that a vote could be held within the next 30 days.

    theguardian.com/world/2026/jan

  4. Venezuela’s rulers have deployed #armed #militias to patrol streets, operate checkpoints and check people’s phones in a crackdown to consolidate authority after the US attack on Caracas.

    Paramilitary groups known as #colectivos criss-crossed the capital with motorbikes and assault rifles on Tuesday in a show of force to stifle any dissent or perception of a power vacuum.

    🔸The patrols stopped and searched cars and
    🔥demanded access to people’s phones to check their contacts, messages and social media posts
    in a stark demonstration to the population that the regime remained in charge despite the abduction of president Nicolás Maduro.

    🔸Anyone who was suspected of supporting Saturday’s US raid was liable for arrest, said Mirelvis Escalona, 40, a resident in the western Caracas neighbourhood of Catia.
    🔥“There’s fear. There are armed civilians here. You never know what might happen, they might attack people.”

    A semblance of normality returned to much of the city, with shops and bakeries reopening and people going to work – but uncertainty over what will happen next created a febrile mood.

    The interim president, #Delcy #Rodríguez, has sought to project a sense of calm and control since being sworn in on Monday -- but there was no disguising the government’s shock and jitteriness.

    On Tuesday, Rodríguez appeared to harden her tone against the US, saying in a televised address that
    ⭐️“no external agent governs Venezuela”
    – a clear rebuttal to Donald Trump’s claim that the US was running the South American country.

    It marked another shift in tone from Maduro’s former vice-president who released a conciliatory statement late on Sunday in which she “invited the US government to work together on an agenda of cooperation”.

In addition to the humiliation of Maduro’s appearance in a New York court on narco-trafficking charges,
    authorities in Caracas face the risk of a fresh US attack, economic collapse, internal regime fracture and the return of overseas-based opposition leaders.

    🔸Gunfire erupted on Monday night when security forces shot at unauthorised drones which reportedly were mistaken for another US operation.
    “There was no confrontation, the entire country remains completely calm,” Simon Arrechider, the deputy information minister, told reporters.
    But it is a tense calm.

    On Monday at least 14 #journalists and media employees, including 13 members of international media organisations, were detained in Caracas. All but one were later released.

    An emergency decree has sought to stamp out any public celebration of Maduro’s ouster
    and ordered police to seek and
    🔥detain “everyone involved in the promotion or support for the armed attack by the United States”.

    Footage posted on social media showed colectivos – some wearing masks – blocking highways, roving pro-opposition neighbourhoods and questioning residents, prompting people to warn friends and family via WhatsApp and other platforms 💥to leave phones at home or to scrub them of political content.
    theguardian.com/world/2026/jan