Trump's Latin America allies open arms to Israel

Deutsche Welle · 🇩🇪 public Germany · Aug 15, 2026 · 934 words · By Gabriel Gonzalez

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Trump's Latin America allies open arms to Israel August 15, 2026 A three-week military offensive in the Gaza Strip in 2009, which killed more than 1,400 people, including an estimated 1,100 civilians, spurred Venezuela's Socialist president at the time, Hugo…

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Seventeen years later, Venezuela and Israel have agreed to establish a mechanism for the resumption of consular services.

Common ground

It's a limited step, but one that until recently would have been unthinkable.

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The tension in the story is sharpened by Loaded Language, Name Calling / Labeling, Exaggeration / Hyperbole: language that can make the dispute feel more urgent, personal, or adversarial than the underlying facts alone.

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 19 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “Bolivia's Socialist government severed relations with Israel after the bombardment of a camp for displaced people in Gaza in 2023.”

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Claim 2: “In Venezuela, the stated policies of the current government, which took power after US forces abducted the sitting president in early January”

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Claim 3: “In Colombia, the nationalist government of new President Abelardo de la Espriella recently reversed the decision by his predecessor, Gustavo Petro, to sever diplomatic relations with Israel”

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Wikipedia and multiple news sources confirm Abelardo de la Espriella became President of Colombia in 2026 and reversed Gustavo Petro's decision to sever ties with Israel.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Presidential elections were held in Colombia on 31 May 2026. Incumbent president Gustavo Petro, elected in 2022, was constitutionally barred from seeking a second term. Abelardo de la Espriella defea…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Colombian_presidential_el…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Abelardo Gabriel de la Espriella Otero (born 31 July 1978) is a Colombian lawyer, businessman, and politician who has served as the 36th president of Colombia since 2026. He is the founder and leader …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abelardo_de_la_Espriella

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Abelardo de la Espriella's inauguration as the 36th President of Colombia took place on Friday, August 7, 2026. It was the 40th Colombian presidential inauguration marking the beginning of his four-ye…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inauguration_of_Abelardo_de_la…

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Claim 4: “A three-week military offensive in the Gaza Strip in 2009, which killed more than 1,400 people, including an estimated 1,100 civilians, spurred Venezuela's Socialist president at the time, Hugo Chavez, to expel the Israeli ambassador in protest and end diplomatic relations.”

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Multiple independent sources (Cleveland.com, NYT, and Wikipedia) confirm that Hugo Chavez expelled the Israeli ambassador and severed diplomatic ties in 2009 in protest of the Gaza offensive.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Israel–Venezuela relations refer to foreign relations between Israel and Venezuela. In 2026, both countries resumed diplomatic relations, having had no relations since 2009 under the United Socialist …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel–Venezuela_relations

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Since its foundation in 1948, Israel has been accused of carrying out genocide against Palestinians during the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. A wide consensus of scholars have concluded that Israel's a…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_genocide_allegatio…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The United States has provided extensive military, diplomatic, and financial support to Israel during the ongoing Gaza war. This has included rapid deployment of warships and military aircraft, billio…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_support_for_Isra…

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Claim 5: “the country's most recent war in Gaza, which has killed more than 70,000 people, nearly one-third of them children.”

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UN reports and Wikipedia entries on the Gaza genocide/war confirm death tolls in the tens of thousands with children accounting for approximately one-third (30%) of the casualties.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Gaza Strip, also known simply as Gaza, is the smaller of the two Palestinian territories (the other being the West Bank) that make up the State of Palestine in the Southern Levant region of West A…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_Strip

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Gaza genocide is the ongoing, intentional, and systematic destruction of the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip carried out by Israel during the Gaza war. It encompasses mass killings, the targe…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_genocide

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Gaza war is an armed conflict in the Gaza Strip and Israel, fought as part of the unresolved Israeli–Palestinian and Gaza–Israel conflicts. The war began on 7 October 2023, when the Palestinian mi…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_war

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Claim 6: “Mexico, under President Claudia Sheinbaum... maintains diplomatic relations.”

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Claim 7: “Colombia would join the United States as the only two countries that recognize "Israeli sovereignty" over the Golan Heights”

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Multiple sources confirm Colombia officially recognized Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights, joining the United States as the second UN member state to do so.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Golan Heights, or simply the Golan, is a basaltic plateau at the southwest corner of Syria, the majority of which has been occupied and administered by Israel since the 1967 Six-Day War. It is bor…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golan_Heights

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Golan Heights is a rocky plateau in southwestern Syria, in the Levant region of Western Asia, that has been occupied by Israel since it was captured during the 1967 Six-Day War. The international …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_occupation_of_the_Gola…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Northern District (Hebrew: מָחוֹז הַצָּפוֹן, romanized: Mekhoz HaTzafon; Arabic: منطقة الشمال, romanized: Minṭaqat ash-Shamāl) is one of Israel's six administrative districts. The Northern Distric…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_District_(Israel)

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Claim 8: “In 2024, under Petro, Colombia broke off relations because of the war in Gaza.”

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Claim 9: “These bilateral relationships date back to the foundation of the Israeli state in 1948”

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Claim 10: “Jair Bolsonaro, the neoliberal former president of Brazil, and El Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele... were early adopters of warmer ties with Israel.”

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No evidence was provided in the search results to confirm the claims regarding Jair Bolsonaro and Nayib Bukele's ties with Israel.

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Claim 11: “His successor, the national conservative, Jose Antonio Kast, is seeking, among other things, to revive Chile's defense cooperation with Israel.”

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Claim 12: “de la Espriella assumed office on August 7”

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Claim 13: “the Golan Heights, which is Syrian territory under international law but has been occupied by Israel since 1967.”

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Wikipedia and UN Security Council Resolution 242 confirm the Golan Heights is Syrian territory under international law and has been occupied by Israel since 1967.

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web search NEUTRAL — International law, particularly UN Security Council Resolution 242, recognizes the Golan Heights as Syrian territory occupied by Israel. The resolution called for “secure and recognized boundaries fre…
https://arabcenterdc.org/resource/trump-and-the-occupied-syr…

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web search NEUTRAL — The strategically important plateau has been widely considered under international law to be occupied territory since its 1967 seizure from Syria.Civil war in Syria since 2011 has given the Golan Heig…
https://brewminate.com/the-golan-heights-whats-at-stake-with…

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web search NEUTRAL — Israel occupied the Golan Heights during the 1967 war and later annexed the area with Donald Trump’s blessing during his presidency, a move never recognized internationally. The UN reaffirmed its stan…
https://qudsnen.co/un-to-israel-golan-heights-are-occupied-s…

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Claim 14: “When the conservative Rodrigo Paz assumed office 2025, he quickly restored ties.”

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Claim 15: “De la Espriella has even announced that Colombia will relocate its embassy to Jerusalem”

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Web search results explicitly state that President Abelardo de la Espriella announced the relocation of the Colombian embassy to Jerusalem.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — On 10 August 2026, a Mw 7.4–7.5 earthquake struck the department of Chocó in Colombia, killing at least 331 people, injuring more than 4,600 others, leaving 240 confirmed missing and causing extensive…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Colombia_earthquake

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Claim 16: “The vast majority of the international community, including Germany and the UN, does not recognize the annexation of the Golan Heights by Israel.”

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Multiple sources confirm that the UN and the majority of the international community (including Germany/EU) do not recognize Israel's annexation of the Golan Heights.

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web search NEUTRAL — Israel captured the Golan Heights from Syria in the 1967 Middle East war and annexed it in 1981. The United Nations and most of the international community consider the territory occupied Syrian land …
https://www.turkiyetoday.com/region/washingtons-golan-height…

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web search NEUTRAL — The Golan Heights is a strategically valuable swath of land that Israel annexed from Syria after 1967’s Six Day War. The United Nations and most of the international community do not recognize the ter…
https://www.vox.com/world/2019/6/16/18681116/benjamin-netany…

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web search NEUTRAL — "The recognition of Israeli sovereignty over the Golan, occupied territory, would be contrary to international law, in particular the obligation for states not to recognise an illegal situation," the …
https://www.trtworld.com/article/12723261

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Claim 17: “the social-democratic government of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in Brazil has taken a highly critical stance toward Israeli actions in the Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank.”

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Claim 18: “Venezuela and Israel have agreed to establish a mechanism for the resumption of consular services.”

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Web search results from Anadolu Ajansı and other reports confirm that Venezuela and Israel agreed to resume consular services after 17 years.

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web search NEUTRAL — Israel–Venezuela relations refer to foreign relations between Israel and Venezuela. In 2026, both countries resumed diplomatic relations, having had no relations since 2009 under the PSUV government.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel–Venezuela_relations

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web search NEUTRAL — Venezuela's government, now led by Interim President Delcy Rodriguez, said an Israeli humanitarian delegation visited the country after deadly earthquakes in June and discussions took place among seni…
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2026-08-11/venezu…

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web search NEUTRAL — Israel and Venezuela have agreed to resume consular ties and establish an official coordination channel after 17 years without diplomatic relations, according to Agencia AJN.
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/israel-venezuela-resume…

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Claim 19: “In Argentina, for example, ultraconservative President Javier Milei has made close relations with Israel a defining feature of both his foreign policy and his own political identity.”

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No evidence was provided in the search results to confirm or deny Javier Milei's specific foreign policy identity regarding Israel in the provided context.

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