Caracas

The Venezuelan president swore in the ‘grassroots Bolivarian commands’ and announced the creation of a new political bureau with trusted aides to face the threats from Washington

Only a handful of aircraft still dot the Venezuelan sky, which Washington has turned into an exclusion zone in what amounts to another tool of political pressure by the Trump administration

In Doral, the city with the highest concentration of Venezuelans in the US, residents are divided between those who see military action against Maduro as the only possible solution and those who favor dialogue

Another 1.3 million are waiting for an appointment. The avalanche of applications in the final months before a deadline expired could delay the process for years. Most applicants come from Argentina, followed by Cuba and Mexico

The phone conversation took place amid the military escalation and, according to the newspaper, opens the door to a diplomatic path that contrasts with the drug trafficking accusations

The message that the Venezuelan leader sought to convey at the close of Tuesday’s march was both an internal response to reinforce the regime’s cohesion, and an external signal of defiance against US pressure

The talk, for which no date has yet been set, aims to pave the way for a diplomatic solution to the bilateral tensions

The designation of the Cartel of the Suns as a foreign terrorist organization becomes effective Monday. The US administration says this provides ‘new tools’ for the US military campaign in the Caribbean

Opposition leader María Corina Machado predicted on Wednesday that there are ‘decisive hours’ ahead for a transition in the South American country

Human Rights Watch documented the mistreatment of 252 migrants that the Trump administration sent to El Salvador, and who were later released and returned to Caracas

A psychologist and a musician, two of the 250,000 Venezuelans who are about to lose protection from deportation, tell EL PAÍS how the life they have built in the US is collapsing

The president says he ‘doubts’ the US will go to war with the Caribbean nation, in an interview with ’60 Minutes’

The US president denies reports suggesting an imminent operation

The bolivar has been steadily losing ground, and the dollar has devalued by 60% since August

The measure is intended to strengthen state surveillance and ensure that citizens report any incidents to the authorities

The agency’s covert operations, which Trump confirmed last week, hark back to the coups, assassination attempts and insurgencies supported or carried out by Washington in the region during the 20th century

The extrajudicial operation, reported by Reuters, is the army’s sixth against vessels from Venezuela

The Venezuelan president calls on American society to to be ‘alert to avoid a war in the Caribbean and in South America’

The plan to hasten the Venezuelan leader’s downfall with a naval deployment in the Caribbean and a campaign of extrajudicial attacks on alleged drug boats has raised questions about what could come next

Venezuela’s president assures that the country’s economic activity will not slow down despite the threats from the US

The fact-finding mission found arbitrary arrests, sexual abuse in prisons, and disappearances of human rights activists and politicians. Caracas rejected the accusations and discredited the mission’s work

Military operations in the Caribbean have been accompanied by a strategy of pressure through intimidating messages

President Nicolás Maduro and his closest circle are convinced that Washington will start a war, and have enjoined citizens to hone their shooting skills

The Venezuelan government has announced a massive recruitment drive, while Washington has stepped up its warnings after a week of heightened tensions

Washington’s latest offensive against the Maduro government is sowing uncertainty in the region, with the war on drugs as a backdrop