Anti-war protesters gathered outside 10 Downing Street to condemn the US invasion of Venezuela.

The US Justice Department backs away from a controversial claim promoted last year by the Trump administration that Nicolas Maduro led a drug cartel known as the Cartel de los Soles.

Major American energy firms show little appetite for returning to Venezuela, CNN reports, exposing what critics describe as the hollowness of President Donald Trump’s aggressive rhetoric and his openly stated ambition to control Venezuela’s oil.

The US has admitted that control over Venezuela’s oil is a key motive as its president is put on trial in New York following his abduction by the US military.

The US “regime change” project in Venezuela began not with Maduro’s 2026 kidnapping but with the 2002 coup against Hugo Chávez, evolving over the years through hybrid warfare and crippling sanctions.

The British Broadcasting Corporation, which frequently lectures the world on "impartiality”, has sparked a wave of outrage after leaked internal guidance revealed an explicit order to its journalists not to call the illegal abduction of the Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro a "kidnapping."

The Venezuelan parliament has inaugurated Delcy Rodríguez as interim president, two days after US forces kidnapped President Nicolás Maduro.