President Nicolás Maduro
People used to openly curse Maduro’s name on the streets of Caracas. But Venezuela’s leader has now crushed the opposition and moves to silence dissent.
Maduro has built a byzantine network of allies—notably Iran and Russia, but also shady gold traders and sympathetic shipping tycoons—to come to his rescue.
Gringo adventurers have been trying to pull off South American coups for about 200 years—and failing miserably. But the survivors of this op are in their own class of stupid.
The partisans of President Nicolás Maduro don’t like scientific findings that show a huge increase in malaria cases, a deadly metric of this country’s disarray.
The political heirs of Hugo Chávez swore they’d never use “Yanqui money,” but to hold on to power they changed their minds. Now even Christmas trees are back on the market.
Donald J. Trump’s weapon of mass destruction is the U.S. dollar, but he’s learning it can’t win the many fights he has picked around the world.
Well-informed sources in Caracas say it’s not only the Trump administration that’s hoping for a coup in Venezuela, it’s Vladimir Putin. But on his terms.