Trump’s Cuba strategy echoes his Venezuela playbook
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Delcy Rodríguez has maintained tight control of political conditions inside the country, while prioritising economic liberalisation.
Venezuela’s government plans to release 300 detainees this week, some held for political reasons. National Assembly president Jorge Rodríguez announced the releases Tuesday in Caracas.
The U.S. oil giant is negotiating a deal to pump oil in Venezuela, ending a standoff with its socialist rulers and marking a victory for President Trump.
CNN finds Venezuelans talking of a “fragile” society even as they use the limited freedoms they have months after the US deposed their president.
Three police officers, accused more than 20 years ago of conspiring against the government of the late former president Hugo Chávez, have been released in Venezuela along with dozens of other political prisoners,
The Trump administration on Thursday turned up the heat on Cuba, calling it a “failed country” and pledging that the US would take unspecified action to right it. “It’s a failed country, everybody knows it,