Overview
- María Corina Machado said she “totally” supports President Donald Trump’s approach to Venezuela in a Face the Nation interview from Oslo.
- She urged a multinational law-enforcement strategy by the United States, Caribbean, Latin American and European partners, while avoiding an explicit call for a U.S. ground intervention.
- The U.S. announced an unprecedented seizure of a tanker off Venezuela’s coast, alleging it carried Venezuelan and Iranian oil and was previously sanctioned for links to the IRGC and Hezbollah, a move Caracas denounced as piracy.
- Coverage reports expanded U.S. naval deployments in the Caribbean and cites unchallenged F-18 overflights of Venezuelan territory as signs of regime vulnerability, though these military details are reported rather than officially confirmed.
- Regional reactions remain divided, with an analyst in Mexico reading President Claudia Sheinbaum’s “no comment” on the Nobel as tacit alignment with Maduro as other governments voice support for Machado’s recognition.