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sto­ries by Akash Sama­roo

Re­gion­al lead­ers di­rect­ly con­front­ed what they de­scribed as the per­cep­tion of a grow­ing “frac­ture” with­in the re­gion­al bloc dur­ing yes­ter­day’s open­ing cer­e­mo­ny of the 50th Reg­u­lar Meet­ing of the Con­fer­ence of Heads of Gov­ern­ment of Cari­com.

The most sig­nif­i­cant re­cent strain in­volves the re­gion’s re­sponse to Unit­ed States for­eign pol­i­cy un­der Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump. In late 2025 and ear­ly 2026, the Unit­ed States in­creased mil­i­tary pres­sure on Venezuela, even­tu­al­ly re­sult­ing in the ouster of Nico­las Maduro.