EXCLUSIVE: Following news of Gina Rodriguez’s directorial feature debut House of Guerrero, the lead cast has been set. Carlos Sanson Jr (Bump, Paper Dolls) is taking the lead of the boxing drama, joined by Rosario Dawson (Ashoka, 25th Hour), George Lopez (Lopez vs. Lopez, Blue Beetle) and Rodriguez. The project comes from Wayfarer Studios, 1Community, […]
Deadline•Rosy Cordero5h ago
More world leaders are set to speak before the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) Wednesday in New York, a day after President Trump addressed the forum. Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian will give remarks early Wednesday as America’s war in the Middle East nears the seven-month mark. Iranian and U.S. officials held indirect talks on the…
The Hill•The Hill Staff9h ago
Interim president, who agreed a 65bn-barrel oil deal with the US, did not say whether she would visit her snatched predecessor, Nicolás Maduro, in jail Venezuela’s interim president, Delcy Rodríguez, has celebrated a “historic” meeting with Donald Trump in New York, posing for a smiley photo with the US president less than nine months after he ordered the abduction of her boss, Nicolás Maduro. The former foes met at a five-star hotel in Manhattan a few blocks from Trump Tower late on Tuesday, on the sidelines of the United Nations general assembly. The hotel is about 7 miles from the Brooklyn prison where Maduro has been held since he was snatched during a special forces raid on Caracas. Continue reading...
The Guardian•Tom Phillips Latin America correspondent10h ago
Rodriguez was handpicked by Trump as leader of Venezuela was arrested and taken to the US
BBC13h ago
Venezuelans protested in New York against interim President Delcy Rodriguez's participation in the UN General Assembly.
Al Jazeera19h ago
Diego Rodriguez and James Olivas will star alongside Rachel Zegler in “Evita,” which opens on Broadway next spring. Rodriguez and Olivas are reprising their roles as Che and Juan Perón, respectively, from last summer’s acclaimed West End production. As previously announced, Zegler is reprising her Olivier Award-winning role as Argentinian first lady Eva Perón. Director […]
Variety•Rebecca Rubin22 Sept
Meeting with US president comes after a level of deference shown to Washington that most leaders would find humiliating
The US-Venezuela talks could reshape global energy and mineral supply chains, impacting geopolitical alliances and economic dependencies.
CryptoBriefing•Editorial Team21 Sept
Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar (R-Fla.) on Sunday called Venezuela’s interim president, Delcy Rodríguez, a “necessary evil” until the Latin American country can have free and fair elections. Salazar defended Trump’s decision to meet with Rodríguez in New York City, while Trump is present for the annual United Nations General Assembly. She told CBS News’s Margaret…
The Hill•Ryan Mancini20 Sept
Click to expand Image Petare, a low-income neighborhood on the outskirts of Caracas, Venezuela, September 17, 2026. © 2026 Human Rights Watch (Washington, DC) – Venezuela needs to take urgent measures and carry out institutional reforms to protect people’s basic rights, Human Rights Watch said today, following its first official visit to the country since 2008. Human Rights Watch visited Caracas this week and met with interim President Delcy Rodríguez, other government officials, human rights groups, journalists, relatives of political prisoners, foreign diplomats, and others. Staff also visited Petare, a low-income neighborhood on the outskirts of Caracas. During its previous high-level visit, in 2008, Venezuelan authorities detained Human Rights Watch staff after they released a report and expelled them from the country. “Interim President Delcy Rodríguez has overseen a pause to the most overt forms of repression in Venezuela,” said Federico Borello, deputy executive director at Human Rights Watch. “But in this fragile political moment, these gains will only become sustainable with robust institutional reforms and the release of all political prisoners.” Rodríguez assumed office following the United States’ capture of then-President Nicolás Maduro on January 3, 2026. Since then, Venezuelan authorities have released hundreds of political prisoners, passed an amnesty law, unblocked some media websites, and announced measures to reform the judiciary. Human rights activists, opposition leaders, and journalists told Human Rights Watch that they are much freer to carry out their work. Some said they have left their hiding places after more than a year or reported for the first time on the arbitrary arrest of their loved ones. On September 18, Venezuelan authorities closed a criminal case against Carlos Correa, executive director of the free-speech organization Espacio Público. However, at least 344 political prisoners remain behind bars, according to Foro Penal, a Venezuelan human rights group, and many others remain under house arrest or are experiencing other restrictions. These include people who were detained for exercising their freedom of expression and people who have been tortured or have suffered gross due process violations. Others who were arbitrarily detained have experienced extortion from judicial officials, prosecutors, and others. Venezuelan authorities should promptly and unconditionally release all people arbitrarily detained, Human Rights Watch said. Authorities have continued, in a small number of cases, to detain critics for short periods. On September 18, Venezuelan authorities detained Javier Oropeza, a former opposition mayor who recently returned to the country. He was released a few hours later. Relatives of political prisoners said that some detainees are still being mistreated behind bars, in particular in the Rodeo I prison in Caracas. Human Rights Watch has documented torture and inhumane conditions of detention in Rodeo I. The closure of Rodeo I would send a powerful signal that the authorities intend to break with the government’s brutal legacy of abusive detention practices. Venezuelan authorities should ensure humane detention conditions for all detainees, Human Rights Watch said. They should also allow international experts, such as the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), unfettered access to all prisons and other places of detention. Venezuelan authorities should also amend or repeal laws that have enabled human rights violations, including anti-terrorism and anti-hatred legislation and rules restricting the work of human rights groups and media outlets. As part of a dialogue process with a part of the political opposition, Venezuelan authorities have announced a process to reform the Supreme Tribunal of Justice, the country’s highest court, and the Electoral Council. The destruction of judicial independence in Venezuela in the 2000s enabled widespread human rights violations and establishing an independent and impartial supreme court would be a crucial first step to a much-needed overhaul to the judicial system, Human Rights Watch said. Over the last decade, Venezuelan authorities have also barred opposition candidates from running for office. Broader patterns of repression have also made it impossible for Venezuelans to exercise their democratic rights freely in past elections. “Venezuelans deserve to participate in timely, free, and fair elections,” Borello said. “That requires urgently allowing political opponents to take part in the political process and run for office.” Venezuelan authorities should also overhaul the country’s security forces to curb their continuation of human rights violations, Human Rights Watch said. These measures should include vetting officials responsible for grave human rights violations, ensuring that intelligence agencies are not tasked with criminal investigations, dismantling clandestine detention centers, and establishing clear rules for the use of force. On September 16, the UN Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (FFM) released a report warning that the state machinery behind repression remains firmly intact. The UN Human Rights Council should renew the mandate of the FFM for two years, Human Rights Watch said. The humanitarian situation in Venezuela remains dire, exacerbated by the earthquakes in June that killed at least 6,300 people. According to HumVenezuela, a group of organizations monitoring the humanitarian crises in the country, over 18 million people, out of a population of 28.5 million, were already unable to meet their basic needs prior to the earthquake. People in many parts of the country experience daily hours-long electricity blackouts and days-long water shortages, and many said they are increasingly impatient. Human Rights Watch has long expressed concern about the role of US economic sanctions in further deepening the humanitarian crisis in Venezuela. Since Maduro’s ouster, US engagement has focused largely on advancing the Trump administration’s economic goals, at the expense of a robust focus on reforms. “The United States should use its leverage to play a leading role in pushing for meaningful human rights change in Venezuela,” Borello said.
(Major Arcana/Giant Music) Lorely Rodriguez contemplates the meaning of home – both physical and emotional – on a gorgeously humid, hopeful album that makes a virtue of her searching nature Since the early 2010s Lorely Rodriguez has cut a restless, inventive figure. She’s slipped from raucous pop to silkier sounds, explored her Honduran-American heritage and, on her last album, flipped the staple awards season phrase “for your consideration” into a full-frontal club-pop meditation on uneven relationships. Her gorgeous fifth album makes a feature of this searching nature. Written after her family home burned down in the 2025 California wildfires, Dream House is about the rebuilding of that home – birdsong-dappled field recordings of its construction keep popping up – but also contemplates what it means to feel at home in yourself and with others. For all the violent loss behind the record, it sounds amazingly airy, free and open-hearted. The directness of For Your Consideration softens to a humid atmosphere that’s bright with hope, Rodriguez’s undulating synth lines bubbling with impatience and ecstasy as they cushion her soaring arrow of a voice. The bangers leap above the fray: SYW, featuring Cecile Believe, elegantly twists EDM to evoke an uncontainable desire; the equally yearning HandsOn sparks with glassy chimes and battering percussion. I Pray 4 U evokes the frisky joy of Jayda G, and Machete, dwelling on defiant post-breakup rebirth, slices like a laser through the night sky. Continue reading...
The Guardian•Laura Snapes18 Sept
The agreement would allow the interim government of Delcy Rodríguez to access funding
EXCLUSIVE: Gina Rodriguez is set to make her theatrical directorial debut with the new boxing film, House of Guerrero, written by Bernardo Cubría (Acapulco). House of Guerrero is produced by Scott Budnick and Ameet Shukla (Nonnas) from 1Community, Rodriguez’s I Can And I Will Productions with Molly Breeskin, and Justin Baldoni and Andrew Calof from […]
Deadline•Rosy Cordero14 Sept
Janelle Rodriguez, who has been a key figure in building streaming platform NBC News Now and also has overseen NBC Nightly News and breaking news and specials, is departing the network. Rodriguez, who has served as executive vice president of programming, wrote in a memo to staffers pn Thursday, “I’ve spent a long time thinking […]
Deadline•Ted Johnson10 Sept
Janelle Rodriguez, who helped build and launch NBC News’ live-streaming outlet NBC News Now while overseeing a rare changing of the guard at “NBC Nightly News,” is leaving. “I’ve spent a long time thinking about what comes next, and I’ve decided to leave now to pursue it. It’s the right moment,” Rodriguez said in a […]
Variety•Brian Steinberg10 Sept
The US president seized a nation’s natural wealth in a modern-day version of gunboat diplomacy to feed his ego – not to lower Americans’ fuel bills Imperialism does not require a flag to be planted or a governor dispatched. It can be a powerful nation deciding who governs a smaller, weaker country, and on what terms and for whose benefit its resources will be developed. Donald Trump’s kidnapping of Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro, putting his deputy – Delcy Rodríguez – in his place as president, and then her signing a deal handing a fifth of the country’s proven oil reserves to the US , amount to a modern version of 19th-century gunboat diplomacy. Regime change supplied America’s commercial concession. This won’t bother Mr Trump. But it should. The US president has oversold his neocolonial spoils. The additional production Venezuela is supposed to bring online might bring down oil prices eventually, but not anytime soon. Crucially, what Mr Trump calls “t he biggest oil deal in history ” won’t cause the price at the pump to fall before November’s midterms. When so many American voters are struggling to pay energy bills , it’s hard to see how unrealised Orinoco Belt riches are going to help Republican candidates. Do you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a response of up to 300 words by email to be considered for publication in our letters section, please click here . Continue reading...
The Guardian•Editorial9 Sept
The agreement may undermine Venezuela's sovereignty, provoke political instability, and alter global oil market dynamics, affecting OPEC relations.
CryptoBriefing•Editorial Team29 Aug
Bournemouth's investment in Rodriguez highlights the growing trend of long-term planning and strategic financial mechanisms in football transfers.
CryptoBriefing•Editorial Team14 Jul
The potential final World Cup for Ronaldo and Rodriguez highlights the inevitable transition of football icons and evolving sports engagement trends.
CryptoBriefing•Editorial Team27 Jun
Rodriguez's return highlights the enduring impact of veteran leadership in sports, underscoring the evolving dynamics of global football.
CryptoBriefing•Editorial Team18 Jun
