Mask-off outbursts by Maga insiders and most strikingly, the destruction and reconstruction of the presidential seat, with a huge new $300m ballroom, means Trump isn’t planning to leave the White House when his term ends, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
WITH house 4,400,000 handed over on December 29 to another happy family, President Nicolas Maduro gave tangible confirmation that 2022 was a positive year for Bolivarian Venezuela.
Between 1999 and 2010 Venezuela’s government built 593,198 homes and for the 2011-15 period 701,250 more, making a total of 1,294,448 new houses for the poor.
This means 3,105,552 houses were built between 2015-22, double the amount built in the preceding 1999-2015 period in half the number of years.
US baseless accusations of drug trafficking and the outrageous putting of a bounty on a president of a sovereign country do not bode well, reports PABLO MERIGUET
FRANCISCO DOMINGUEZ says the US’s bullying conduct in what it considers its backyard is a bid to reassert imperial primacy over a rising China — but it faces huge resistance



