A Nation Adrift

With deep foreign aid cuts, increasing travel restrictions, and energy companies being pushed out, Venezuelans face growing isolation 50 days into Trump’s return

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Venezuela appears in a preliminary version of the travel ban, according to The New York Times

Los estados de California y New York, conjuntamente con los estados Connecticut, Delaware,
Hawai, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey,
Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington, y el Distrito de Columbia (DC), presentan, a través de… pic.twitter.com/2Oysd8pvNw
— Leopoldo Martínez Nucete (@lecumberry) March 7, 2025

Attorneys general from Democratic-led states are backing roughly 500,000 Venezuelan TPS holders in National TPS Alliance v. Noem, a legal challenge against Trump’s move to end Temporary Protected Status for Venezuela

Joseph Nye in FT op-ed: “Unlike during the cold war days of Mao Zedong, China’s soft power strategy has rested less on ideological proselytising of universal communist values and more heavily on transactional relationships.”https://t.co/8iBqIooMN0
— Jonathan Cheng (@JChengWSJ) March 10, 2025

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On March 9, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced the cancellation of 83% of USAID programs, marking a severe blow to dissidents, NGOs, and aid groups in Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela.

With foreign aid organizations linked to USAID losing funding, only a handful of programs remain operational in Venezuela—down from dozens.

The Trump administration is preparing to force more companies to stop working in Venezuela https://t.co/CU13OTbstv
— Bloomberg Economics (@economics) March 7, 2025