**Translation:** After Maduro’s fall, the big question is not only when Venezuelans will return, but whether a path of return truly exists after years of putting down roots.

By handing over the Nobel medal to Trump, Machado sought to speed up the transition, but ended up exposing his greatest dilemma: international influence without effective power.

The detention of Cilia Flores alongside Nicolás Maduro reignites the debate over the real power of first ladies in Latin America and lays bare how a role without formal oversight can become a key political actor within authoritarian regimes.

The Venezuelan crisis reveals not a new world order, but rather the persistence of the old principle of the rule of the strongest, now reconfigured into an open struggle over spheres of influence.

When Nicolás Maduro challenged the world with a “Come get me!”, he did not imagine that this shout would mark the beginning of the end of his power and open an uncertain transition for Venezuela.

Donald Trump’s electoral victory for a second, nonconsecutive term was seen by Venezuelans—inside and outside the United States—as the last opportunity to achieve a...