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...One of the key architects of the US strategy, Juan González — Biden’s top Latin America adviser at the National Security Council — will step down this month....
...Juan Cruz, Donald Trump’s top White House official for Latin America, said that while he had advocated engagement with Maduro, the Biden administration “were outmanoeuvred....
...Last month, Washington reimposed sanctions on state miner Minerven after Venezuelan courts upheld a ban on the candidacy of opposition leader María Corina Machado....
...being banned from running for office by President Nicolás Maduro’s government....
...A US-led diplomatic gambit of recognising an opposition group of legislators led by Juan Guaidó as Venezuela’s legitimate government had failed....
...The US has condemned the disqualification of María Corina Machado, the Venezuelan opposition leader tipped to challenge President Nicolás Maduro in elections next year, from holding office for 15 years....
...María Corina Machado — the Venezuelan opposition leader tipped to challenge strongman president Nicolás Maduro in elections next year — is barred from holding office, according to the country’s controller-general...
...Juan Guaidó, the opposition leader once recognised by the west as Venezuela’s legitimate president, arrived in the US on Tuesday, strengthening the hand of authoritarian president Nicolás Maduro amid stalled...
...Juan Guaidó in 2019....
...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....
...Nicolás Maduro appeared to be enjoying the inauguration of a gleaming new baseball stadium on the outskirts of Caracas last month....
...solid chance at October’s election, with the backing of Peronist coalition Unidos por la Patria (United for the Homeland) — representing the political movement founded by 20th-century Argentine leader Juan...
...In large white letters, the names of anti-government protesters killed in recent weeks are written on a main street in the Colombian city of Cali: Nicolás G, Marcelo A, Jovita O, Yeisson A, Cristian M, Daniel...
...Dismissing President Nicolás Maduro as an illegitimate dictator, the US leader promised that “Maduro’s grip on tyranny will be smashed and broken”....
...A British court has dealt a blow to attempts by Nicolás Maduro’s regime to access $1bn of Venezuelan gold held at the Bank of England by ruling that opposition leader Juan Guaidó had been “unequivocally”...
...Mr Saab’s lawyer in Miami, Maria Dominguez, confirmed the arrest but made no further comment....
...The officials named by Brussels include Luis Parra, who in January led a parliamentary coup against Juan Guaidó, the president of Venezuela’s National Assembly....
...The position of opposition leader Juan Guaidó, head of congress for the past two years, looks increasingly precarious....
...After years of internal squabbling, here was a leader who galvanised opposition to President Nicolás Maduro....
...In any normal country, such actions would probably have led to arrest and prosecution, but in Venezuela, Juan Guaidó remains free....
...When Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó urged people to take to the streets once more on Saturday to defy the government of Nicolás Maduro, his supporters responded with sympathy but also with weariness...
...Russia’s foreign ministry has said a claim by US secretary of state Mike Pompeo that Moscow convinced Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro to face down a coup attempt was “fake”....
...President Nicolás Maduro....
...Russia has attacked the decision by the US and Canada to recognise Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó as the country’s interim president....
...European powers have backed Juan Guaidó as Venezuela’s interim president in an effort to raise the pressure on Nicolás Maduro’s regime, even as divisions in the EU threaten efforts to forge a common stance...
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