When Erika Rolo heard that the United States would restart direct commercial flights to Venezuela, she began obsessively checking the American Airlines website. For months, she saw nothing. Then, just over a week ago, Ms. Rolo, a Houston resident who was born in Venezuela, found one: American Airlines 3599 from Miami to Caracas. She pounced,…
The Polymarket prediction market website is displayed on a computer screen, Jan. 11, 2026, in New York. Wyatte Grantham-Philips | AP The Army Special Forces soldier criminally charged in connection with making hugely profitable bets on Polymarket related to the U.S. military raid that captured Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro was released Friday on an unsecured…
A U.S. Army soldier involved in the capture of Nicolas Maduro has been charged with making $400,000 by betting on the removal of the ousted Venezuelan leader, the Justice Department said on Thursday. In the weeks leading up to Maduro’s January 3 capture, Gannon Ken Van Dyke, a master sergeant with U.S. Army Special Forces,…
Shorouk Express After Venezuela and its oil, which country and resources will the United States set its sights on next? In the aftermath of the controversial US military intervention on 2 and 3 January, which led to the arrest and extraction of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores to the United States…
Shorouk Express Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email President Donald Trump has called for a “total and complete blockade” of sanctioned oil tankers from Venezuela in an escalation of tensions with…
Shorouk Express Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez condemned as “unacceptable” the “extrajudicial operations” carried out by the United States on alleged drug-trafficking boats off Venezuela, in an interview published Friday. Speaking to Italy’s L’Espresso magazine, the Socialist premier urged a peaceful resolution to the growing crisis between President Donald Trump’s administration and Caracas, which have…
Shorouk Express BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan, May 21. The agreement on visa exemption for holders of diplomatic and service passports between Kyrgyzstan and Venezuela has officially entered into force, Trend reports, citing the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Kyrgyzstan. The instrument was executed on the 27th of September, 2024, in the jurisdiction of New York. In accordance…
Shorouk Express The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Two Colombian men who fought for Ukraine were “kidnapped” by Vladimir Putin in Venezuela and locked up…
