By Vijay Prashad and Carlos Ron on January 7, 2026
Venezuelan Acting President Delcy Rodriguez speaks during a council of ministers meeting at the Vice President Headquarters
Elite Delta Force troops descended from the helicopters to the location where President Nicolás Maduro was spending the night. They faced resistance from soldiers on the ground, but overwhelming firepower from the air killed many Venezuelan and Cuban soldiers (24 Venezuelans, according to the Venezuelan Army, and 32 Cubans, according to Havana). Once ground resistance was neutralised, the Delta Force seized President Maduro and Venezuela National Assembly member, Cilia Flores, Maduro’s wife. (more…)
January 6, 2026
The president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, made his first statements before a New York court after his kidnapping on January 3 by specialized U.S. military commandos in a military operation carried out on Venezuelan territory. The president declared himself a “prisoner of war” and categorically rejected the charges against him, reaffirming his status as the legitimate head of state of the Bolivarian Republic. (more…)
By Manolo De Los Santos on January 6, 2026
Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodríguez was sworn in as interim president on January 5. Photo: Con El Mazo Dando
In the aftermath of the illegal US operation against Venezuela, a deliberate misinformation campaign has been waged to sow doubt about the survival of the country’s revolution. (more…)
By Raúl Antonio Capote on January 4, 2025
Venezuelans condemn the imperialist attack against their country in the streets.
The actions unfolded exactly as predicted: a coup carried out under cover of darkness and with complete treachery. It was an operation directed against a legitimate government and a country that has never attacked another. If there is one thing the U.S. war machine excels at, it is precisely this type of incursion; they have vast experience, and history offers ample examples. (more…)
By César Omar Sánchez on January 3, 2026
Statement from the National Network on Cuba
The recent U.S. military assault on Venezuela is not a legitimate action against “narco-terrorism”—it is naked imperialism, a blatant violation of international law and Venezuelan sovereignty. The United States’ bombardment of Caracas and other regions, along with the announcement of the capture of President Nicolás Maduro, has drawn immediate condemnation from leaders across Latin America and the world, including Cuba’s government, which called it “state terrorism” and demanded an urgent global response. (more…)
By Carlos Fazio on January 4, 2026
graphic: Adam Iglesias Toledo
In another illegal and flagrant act of his imperial presidency, after four months of deploying a powerful war machine in the Caribbean Sea to carry out a regime change operation in Venezuela and seize its geostrategic resources (particularly oil), by ordering the bombing of the South American country and the kidnapping of the constitutional and legitimate president, Nicolás Maduro, and his wife, Cilia Flores, Donald Trump swept away the remaining vestiges of international law and the moribund United Nations system half-buried in occupied Palestine. (more…)
By Hedelberto López Blanch on January 3, 2026
Desperation over the constant decline of the US empire, which sees its international power waning in the face of emerging powers like China, Russia, Iran, Turkey, and others, has led it to try to destroy the Bolivarian Revolution by force. (more…)
By Rosa Miriam Elizalde on January 2, 2026
Nicolás Maduro (left), President of Venezuela, and Miguel Díaz-Canel (right), President of Cuba, during a session of the Sao Paulo Forum held in Havana in 2018. foto: Rosa Miriam Elizalde
Nicolás Maduro remains in Miraflores Palace, and Cuba celebrates the 67th anniversary of the Revolution today. January 1, 2026, dawns with this uncomfortable truth for the opinion machine that has spent months predicting the imminent fall of both governments, while Trump’s gunboats prowl the Caribbean. (more…)