2026-01-30: Venezuela Roundup

So far today: 2026-01-30 3:49pm GMT

Staff (2026-01-30). Venezuela and US Agree To Reopen Commercial Airspace (+Cybersecurity Center). orinocotribune.com Caracas ( Following a telephone conversation between Acting President Rodríguez and Trump this Thursday, January 29, it was confirmed that the ill…

aljazeera (2026-01-30). Venezuela's Rodriguez signs oil reform law while the US eases sanctions. aljazeera.com The Trump administration has pressured Venezuela to increase foreign access to the country's large oil reserves.

Martha Rios (2026-01-30). Presidenta encargada de Venezuela: Estamos dando pasos históricos. radiohc.cu La presidenta encargada de Venezuela, Delcy Rodríguez aseguró este jueves que están dando pasos históricos. | En un acto en el Palacio de Miraflores, sede del Gobierno, al terminar una marcha del pueblo y los trabajadores del petróleo, la dignataria informó que recibió una llamada de su par estadounidense, Donald Trupm, y de su secretario de Estado, Marco Rubio. | Detalló que le notificaron, en el marco de la agenda de trabajo, de la cual "hemos conversado y hablado, que estamos dando pasos importantes". | Subrayó que están hablando del cese de las restricciones en el espacio aéreo comercial de Venezuela y "venga…

Sergio Rodríguez Gelfenstein (2026-01-30). In the face of imperialist aggression, we say with Bolívar: "I awaken every hundred years when the people awaken." unitedworldint.com A history of US interventions in the South American country. From Caracas / Venezuela The United States' military incursion into Venezuela is an expression of the interventionist tendencies that have characterized that country almost since its founding in 1776. A cursed race, born from impoverished Europeans expelled from their homelands and imbued with a supposed …

WSWS (2026-01-30). Trump administration threatens new war against Iran. wsws.org Just weeks after attacking Venezuela and kidnapping its president, US President Donald Trump is threatening to launch a major new war against Iran.

Kathy Durkin (2026-01-30). Workers World says "Hands off Venezuela" and "Abolish ICE" workers.org Workers World newspaper has been on top of reporting the news and analyzing two of the primary issues being addressed by anti-imperialist, anti-racist forces in the U.S. today. Our articles and editorials strongly demand "U.S. out of Venezuela!" and "No ICE on our streets!" and support the activists fighting back . . . |

slorinoco (2026-01-30). Marco Rubio Testifies to US Senate About Attack on Venezuela: His Claims Do Not Add Up. orinocotribune.com On Wednesday, the US Secretary of State denied that the US was waging war against Venezuela. In the same appearance, he warned that he would oversee Venezuela's "transition" and threatened to use force if "other methods fail." | Marco Rubio appeared before the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Wednesday. "There is no war against Venezuela, and we did not occupy a country," Republican Senator Rand Paul, who describes…

ecns.cn (2026-01-30). Trump orders reopening of Venezuelan airspace to commercial flights. ecns.cn U.S. President Donald Trump said Thursday he has directed his administration to reopen Venezuelan airspace to commercial flights, a move he said would allow U.S. citizens to travel to Venezuela in the near future.

Staff (2026-01-30). Foreign Minister Yván Gil Commends Pan-African Anti-Colonial Support for Venezuela. orinocotribune.com Caracas ( In a social media post this Thursday, January 29, the top diplomat stated that the actions of the US represent a flagrant violation of national self-determination, and manifest as unacceptable aggression against the stability of a sovereign country. | Minister Gil's post was in response t…

Roberto Morejón (2026-01-30). Invasores con falsos pretextos siguen intimidaciones. radiohc.cu En medio de su embriaguez tras el ataque a Venezuela y el secuestro del presidente y esposa, la administración estadounidense calificó de satisfactorio el diálogo con el nuevo gobierno en el país sudamericano, pero recientemente ha renovado sus advertencias de eventual uso de la fuerza. | En una comparecencia ante el Comité de Relaciones Exteriores del Senado para intentar justificar el ataque a Venezuela, el secretario norteamericano de Estado, Marco Rubio, levantó nuevamente el haz de la violencia. | El otrora senador dejó abierto ese recurso si, según sus palabras, la presidenta encargada Delcy Rodríguez no co…

geo.tv (2026-01-30). US eases oil sanctions on Venezuela after reforms. geo.tv Installations at the El Palito refinery of Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA, after the National Assembly approved a major reform of the country's main oil law, in Puerto Cabello, Venezuela, January 22, 2026. — Reuters Caracas: The United States on Thursday eased sanctions on…

Will Porter (2026-01-30). Trump Opens Venezuela Airspace to Commercial Flights. news.antiwar.com President Donald Trump has said that Venezuela's airspace will soon be reopened to commercial flights from the United States, claiming the country was under "very strong control" and that Americans would be safe to travel there. Trump announced the decision during a cabinet meeting on Thursday, saying he had instructed Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, as …

Telesur, Orinoco Tribune. (2026-01-30). Relatives Of Civilians Killed In US Caribbean Missile Strikes Sue Trump. popularresistance.org Relatives of two Trinidadian citizens killed in a US missile strike in the Caribbean have filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the Trump administration. This litigation, the first of its kind, seeks justice for the brutality of the unauthorized military campaign that, under the pretext of a "war on drugs," has claimed more than 120 lives in the Pacific and the Caribbean since last September. | The lawsuit asserts that Chad Joseph and Rishi Samaroo, two workers who earned their living in fishing and agriculture in Venezuela, were returning to their home in Trinidad and Tobago on October 14, 2025, when a US missi…

aljazeera (2026-01-30). Trump threatens tariffs on countries supplying Cuba with much-needed oil. aljazeera.com Trump signs executive order ramping up pressure on Havana's oil supplies in wake of US abduction of Venezuela's Maduro.

Ed Newman (2026-01-30). Trump adds tariff threat to campaign against oil supplies to Cuba. radiohc.cu The President of the United States, Donald Trump, signed an executive order this Thursday classifying Cuba as an "unusual and extraordinary threat" to establish that Washington could impose tariffs on goods from countries that sell or supply oil to the island, in a new manifestation of the extraterritorial reach of the blockade policy against the Caribbean nation. | In the executive order, titled "Addressing Threats from the Government of Cuba to the United States," the US president mentions Havana's relations with countries like Russia and China and states that "Cuba brazenly harbors dangerous adversaries of the…

Martha Rios (2026-01-30). Canciller cubano: Nuestra América está en peligro. radiohc.cu El ministro cubano de Relaciones Exteriores, Bruno Rodríguez denunció este jueves los peligros que corre "Nuestra América" por la doctrina belicista del Gobierno de Estados Unidos, a 12 años de la declaración de la región como Zona de Paz. | En su cuenta en la red social X, el canciller recordó cuando, durante la Segunda Cumbre de la Comunidad de Estados Latinoamericanos y del Caribe (Celac), 33 mandatarios reunidos en La Habana firmaron la Proclama de América Latina y el Caribe como Zona de Paz. | Rodríguez, destacó el "marcado interés en revivir la desprestigiada Doctrina Monroe", por parte del Gobierno de EEUU…

Staff (2026-01-29). Venezuela's Acting President Rodríguez Assumes Military Command, Launches National Cyber Defense Office. orinocotribune.com Caracas ( Accompanied by Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino, National Assembly President Jorge Rodríguez, and Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello, the acting president was honored by military authorities this Wednesday, January 28. | Cabello opened the ceremony, stating that Venezuela fac…

Binoy Kampmark (2026-01-29). The Gangster's Brief: The Barr Doctrine, Noriega and Maduro. counterpunch.org US President Donald Trump might leave an impression of violent novelty, at least for the leader of a nominal liberal democracy, soiling international relations with the gangster's touch. This sense of iconoclasm is misplaced. While his conduct regarding the abduction of Nicolás Maduro certainly dumps mightily on the precepts of international law, legal advisors in the US

Juan Cole (2026-01-29). Dutch Judges Order Netherlands to protect its Caribbean Island of Bonaire from Climate Change. juancole.com Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) — A Dutch court in the Hague has

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