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...Prosecutors also accused Trump of violating a gag order put in place by justice Juan Merchan, who is presiding over the case....
...Yet almost four years after Guaidó was declared “interim president”, Maduro remains in power, aided by backing from Russia, China, Cuba and Iran....
...Kane, a CIA spy, must extract a top-secret source with knowledge of a planned terrorist spectacular from the badlands between Pakistan and Iran — but it all goes wrong....
...A US-led diplomatic gambit of recognising an opposition group of legislators led by Juan Guaidó as Venezuela’s legitimate government had failed....
..., China, Iran and Turkey....
...Juan González, Biden’s top Latin American adviser, led a delegation to Caracas in March 2022 to open high-level talks with Maduro but progress since then has been slow....
...Maduro survived the years of western ostracism by turning to China, Russia, Turkey and Iran and dodging sanctions by sending cargos of oil to east Asia through intermediaries....
...He played a key role in helping Caracas dodge US economic sanctions, using his Syrian and Lebanese parentage to open up new business channels to Iran and Turkey....
...Maduro has clung to power with support from Russia, China, Cuba and Iran. The US has accused his government of raking in billions of dollars from drug trafficking and gold smuggling....
...Juan Guaidó once proclaimed himself Venezuela’s rightful president to the cheers of crowds and the acclamation of the US, Europe and much of Latin America....
...“The word NGO is not as popular as it was before,” said Juan Meléndez El Salvador, director of the Netherlands Institute for Multiparty Democracy....
...His socialist government, placed under sanctions by the US and the EU, has drawn closer to its key allies: Russia, China, Cuba and Iran....
...Protests at home and diplomatic pressure abroad have not succeeded in ousting him, partly thanks to support from Russia, Cuba, China, Turkey and Iran....
...Since early 2019, the US and a coalition of its allies including the UK has recognised opposition leader Juan Guaidó as Venezuela’s legitimate president....
...Four years later, Cúcuta was the staging ground for a failed attempt backed by Colombia and the US to install Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó as president....
...“I think it’s expectable, even predictable, that the Biden administration would try to smooth things over with Venezuela and Iran given the crisis in energy supply caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine,...
...“This is full-on shock and awe,” says Juan Zarate, a former senior White House official who helped devise the financial sanctions America has developed over the past 20 years....
...At the start of 2019, the US and EU tried to force regime change by recognising opposition leader Juan Guaidó as Venezuela’s interim president and squeezing Maduro’s military-backed government with a “maximum...
...It also looked like a slap in the face for Juan Guaidó, the opposition leader who Washington has recognised as the legitimate president of Venezuela for the past three years....
...Not with the regime but with its backers: Russia, China, Iran and Turkey. This would be challenging, given broader tensions in the world....
...With support from Cuba, Russia, China and Iran, Maduro managed to circumvent the sanctions and tighten his grip on power....
...Opposition leader Juan Guaidó quickly condemned the Venezuelan decision not to attend the next round of negotiations....
...We have internationally recognised President Juan Guaidó. In Iran we’ve seen the Green Revolution and the current events. These regimes most of the time unfortunately can toughen it out....
...China, Russia and Iran have invested in the country’s oil industry. Turkey is a conduit for gold sales and Cuba provides intelligence advisers....
...Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó’s diplomatic envoy to the UK has resigned from her post in the latest sign of trouble for the fractious western-backed coalition trying to unseat socialist President...
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