De acuerdo con el The New York Times, la embarcación venezolana con 11 tripulantes destruida por EEUU ya había dado la vuelta antes del ataque, lo que contradice la tesis de que representaba un riesgo inminente que justificara el uso de la fuerza. nytimes.com/2025/09/10/us/…

1/ Trump announced a 2nd U.S. strike in the Caribbean on a vessel allegedly carrying drugs, killing 3. As WOLA has noted, lethal force absent self-defense or UN approval violates U.S. & intl law. This could amount to an extrajudicial killing. 🧵

Police claim that TDA members can be identified through emojis is ‘an unsophisticated, uneducated approach that demonstrates a lack of knowledge’. theguardian.com/us-news/2025/s…

Good article fact-checking the narratives about Venezuela sending drugs to the US, or what the Cartel de los Soles really is. Recommended read: politifact.com/article/2025/s…

"[T]here is no evidence to suggest that [Venezuela's government] is engaged in a war of terror against the US, or that it is using drugs and violent criminals to undermine the US government" -@PhilGunson Crisis Group

El contexto actual es de profunda inestabilidad política y un reflejo de la crisis de legitimidad que el gobierno intenta superar a la fuerza, con mayor militarización. También, en El Caribe, han ocurrido hechos que constituyen un ejercicio ilegal de uso de la fuerza letal y la

Editorial de The New York Times: "Ningún presidente debería tener este tipo de poder". "Trump siempre ha preferido las demostraciones de poder incendiarias, y a menudo ineficaces, a los programas discretos y constantes que funcionan. Sus ataques en el mar encajan en una pauta

“Si bien algunas drogas provienen de Venezuela, el fentanilo no, y la cocaína que pasa por allí representa un porcentaje muy pequeño del comercio, muy inferior al que proviene de Colombia y sale de Colombia y Ecuador” escribe julieturkewitz para The New York Times. nytimes.com/2025/09/28/wor…

The White House Deputy Press Secretary looked at this graph and thought "those grey bars are totally fine, everyone will understand that only the yellow ones are a problem".

"Our intelligence, without a doubt, confirmed" says the administration that sends people to foreign dungeons based on tattoos.

Here some of the initial analyses about the María Corina Machado's Nobel Peace Prize award. 🧵

If a president confirms an ongoing operation publicly to journalists, it is not "covert." Thank you for your attention to this matter.

President Trump recently confirmed that the U.S. was involved in covert operations in Venezuela — something first reported by the New York Times. So what does the academic literature tell us about the history and consequences of such interventions?🧵

Out of all the news that has appeared this week about US-Venezuela tensions, I would argue that this is the most important. nytimes.com/2025/10/16/us/…

We speak is @dsmilde is on Blue Sky about the Trump authorizing the C.I.A. to conduct covert actions in Venezuela and announcing on Wednesday “We are certainly looking at land now, because we’ve got the sea very well under control.” soundcloud.com/user-830442635…

Esto 👇

The sheriff’s job is to enforce the law. It’s outlaws that go around shooting first and asking questions afterwards.

Columbia University loses its funding after President Trump’s feud with the president of Colombia.

Washington Post report details deal that I and other El Salvador watchers have been talking about for years: Bukele made a pact with MS-13, DOJ has known about it, and now Rubio’s State Dept is covering it up by handing over gang leaders in US custody to Bukele to be silenced.

Miller sided with Rubio not because of regime change,” the source told me. Rather, it was because Venezuela presented “an outlet for the belief that the President can just kill these guys” as part of an open-ended war on drugs and crime.