Topic: nicolas maduro

The fall of Maduro brings relief for many in Cayman and unease over what US intervention in Venezuela and elsewhere means for the Caribbean.

Governor Jane Owen has assured Cayman residents and tourists that the islands remain "safe and secure" despite controversial US intervention in Venezuela to topple president Nicolás Maduro

Caribbean leaders react after a US military operation in Venezuela captured President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores.

The cascade of Western democracies recognizing Guaido sends a strong message to the Venezuelan military, too. It’s telling that Maduro did not give the order this past weekend to disperse crowds of protesters with violence. It suggests that he knows that most of his army would not follow it.

The wealth of nations – all wealth of all free nations – is generated by the private sector, not the government sector. Put another way, the business sector makes, the public sector takes.

Nearly 70 percent of Cayman’s small Venezuelan population voted Sunday in opposition of President Nicolas Maduro’s plan to rewrite their nation’s Constitution.

By most measures, Venezuela is already a failed state: Amid crippling shortages of food, medicine, power and water, every societal ailment is soaring.

It’s come to this: The country with the largest oil reserves in the world can’t afford to brew its own beer, stay in its own time zone, or even have its own people show up to work more than two times a week.

With Latin America’s most troubled economy heading toward default, there was hope that Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro might discard half-measures and pull his country back from the edge. Instead, last week he announced policy changes that amounted to an optical illusion.