Trump amps up Venezuelan crackdown, sanctions gold exports with executive order
WASHINGTON - President Trump is continuing to put pressure on the government of Venezuela’s leftist President Nicolas Maduro, introducing a new round of sanctions designed to further rattle the embattled South More...
Trump: Venezuelan socialist president easily toppled
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump suggested on Tuesday that Venezuela’s leader Nicolas Maduro could be easily toppled by a military coup and the U.S stepped up financial pressure by slapping the socialist president’s More...
Trump renews economic embargo against Cuba
HAVANA - The Trading with the Enemy Act, one of the legal bases of the embargo imposed by the United States against Cuba was extended on Monday by US President Donald Trump through a memorandum sent to the Secretaries More...
US official: Trump pressed aides about Venezuela invasion
BOGOTA - Last August during a meeting in the Oval Office, President Donald Trump pressed aides on the possibility of invading Venezuela. The suggestion stunned those present at the meeting, including U.S. Secretary More...
President Trump says relations between the US and the Netherlands ‘better than ever’
WASHINGTON - The relationship between the United States and the Netherlands is "better than ever", according to US President Donald Trump on Monday. He made that statement when welcoming Prime Minister Mark Rutte More...
Trump prohibits U.S. purchases of Venezuelan cryptocurrency
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump banned U.S. purchases of a cryptocurrency the Venezuelan government is rolling out, as part of a campaign to pressure the government of President Nicolas Maduro. Trump issued More...
‘Trump effect’ and tax cuts benefit Dutch multinationals
THE HAGUE - Large Dutch companies are profiting fully from the drastic reduction of US corporation tax approved at the end of last year, the NRC reported on Friday. Higher profits from the American operations of More...
CARICOM responds to Trumps “shithole” comments
GEORGETOWN - The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) said it is deeply disturbed by reports about the use of derogatory and repulsive language by the president of the United States in relation to CARICOM member state, More...
No more oil from Venezuela for Haiti because of Trump
PORT AU PRINCE - Jude Alix Patrick Salomon, the minister of the economy and finance, has revealed that the financial sanctions imposed by the Trump administration against Venezuela, including limiting banking transactions, More...
St. Vincent mentioned in charges from probe into Russian interference in US elections
WASHINGTON - St Vincent and the Grenadines has found itself mentioned in the high-profile investigation into possible ties between US President Donald Trump’s election campaign and Russia. When Trump’s former More...
