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Business News > Mint Authors > Vera Bergengruen

Vera Bergengruen

ARTICLES BY VERA BERGENGRUEN

Fuel supplies are dwindling in Havana and across the country.

Life in Cuba is grinding to a halt under US oil blockade

4 min read . 11 Feb 2026

Cuba’s President Miguel Diaz-Canel.

Cuba says it is ready to engage with Trump as fuel shortages worsen

2 min read . 06 Feb 2026

The analysis by the Central Intelligence Agency was briefed to President Trump. (Reuters)

CIA concluded regime loyalists were best placed to lead Venezuela after Maduro

5 min read . 06 Jan 2026

Call it the return of the “Big Stick” school of hemispheric relations, a throwback to U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt.

Speak loudly and carry a big stick—Trump’s approach to the Americas

7 min read . 06 Jan 2026

US President Donald Trump at a news conference on Saturday, Jan. 3, 2026. President Nicolas Maduro has been charged in the US after he was captured and flown out of Venezuela. (Photo: Bloomberg)

Trump rolls the dice on nation-building with vow to ‘run’ Venezuela

5 min read . 04 Jan 2026

Venezuelans living in Chile gather to celebrate, after the US struck Venezuela and captured its President Nicolas Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores overnight, in Concepcion, Chile, January 3, 2026.(Photo: Reuters)

Inside Operation Absolute Resolve, the incursion that deposed Venezuela’s Maduro

6 min read . 04 Jan 2026

Nobel Peace Prize laureate and Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado. (File Photo; Pool via AP)

Rescued at sea: How Venezuela’s Machado survived the riskiest leg of her escape

8 min read . 12 Dec 2025

Hegseth felt Holsey didn’t move quickly enough to develop the plans, the people said. (AP)

Hegseth asked top admiral to resign after months of discord

5 min read . 04 Dec 2025

While the presence of National Guard troops in D.C. was initially controversial, residents had grown accustomed to seeing uniformed troops on their commute or at dinner. (AP)

National Guard troops had become a fixture in DC. Then two were shot.

4 min read . 27 Nov 2025

Dozens of whiteboards partition the vast cement hall, flanked by large displays inscribed with the 20 points of Trump’s Gaza peace plan. (AP)

Inside the warehouse in Israel where the US is overseeing Trump’s peace plan

4 min read . 26 Oct 2025

Trump’s new focus on the Americas relies on economic leverage as well as the threat of force. (Bloomberg)

Trump’s ‘Donroe Doctrine’ aims to dominate the Americas

7 min read . 23 Oct 2025

Key to the deal was Trump’s direct pressure on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who was reluctant to end the war, people involved in the negotiations say. (AFP)

How Trump’s upside-down diplomacy delivered a major foreign policy victory

5 min read . 10 Oct 2025

Ukrainian officials say thousands of children have been taken to Russia since the invasion, many with their names and identities rewritten. (REUTERS)

Inside the lobbying push that put Ukraine’s missing children on Trump’s agenda

6 min read . 23 Aug 2025

During the Cold War, neutral Finland, which shares an 830-mile border with Russia, often served as a bridge between Washington and Moscow. (REUTERS)

How Finland’s golf-loving president got Trump to hear him out on Russia

7 min read . 14 Aug 2025

Trump has long leaned on the threat of using U.S. military force to respond to domestic problems. (Bloomberg)

How Trump is expanding the role of the American military on US soil

5 min read . 12 Aug 2025

Among the inmates at El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center are more than 300 alleged Salvadoran and Venezuelan gang members expelled by the U.S. Photo: Jose Cabezas/Reuters

The gang-linked prison chief taking custody of Trump’s deportees

4 min read . 23 May 2025

People take part in a march ending in front of the US consulate, under the slogan, Greenland belongs to the Greenlandic people, in Nuuk, Greenland. (File Photo: Ritzau Scanpix via AP)

Greenlanders are angry and confused over unwanted US visit

6 min read . 26 Mar 2025

Second Lady Usha Vance. (File Photo: AP)

US delegation to visit Greenland as White House ramps up pressure on the island

3 min read . 24 Mar 2025

Daniel Martindale entered Ukraine just before the Russian invasion in 2022. (Daniel Martindale)

The American who went undercover in Ukraine—for Moscow

13 min read . 20 Feb 2025

It isn’t clear whether the military’s role on the border would replace or overlap with the existing security operations carried out by DHS, ICE and border agents. Photo: anna rose layden/Reuters

Pentagon plans for bigger US troop role at border

4 min read . 22 Jan 2025