There is no doubt that Venezuelans could qualify for TPS as defined by law
Washington is fully within its rights to grant or revoke TPS as it sees fit, but withdrawing it from Venezuela could deepen the humanitarian catastrophe
Venezuela holds elections marked by low turnout and opposition repression
Chavismo allegedly won 82.6% of the vote and nearly all governorships, amid widespread abstention. María Corina Machado praised the population for ‘not heeding the regime’s call’
Apathy and economic crisis mark the final stretch of the legislative and gubernatorial election campaign in Venezuela
Chavismo is poised to dominate next Sunday’s vote, boycotted by the majority opposition sector
Adelys Ferro, director of the Venezuelan American Caucus: ‘What the United States is doing to Venezuelans is a great injustice’
The activist claims that the Supreme Court’s decision to abolish TPS is a prelude to eliminating the program for the other 16 beneficiary countries
US returns two-year-old girl separated from her deported parents to Venezuela
Nicolás Maduro celebrated the reunion of the minor and her family: ‘She is the daughter and granddaughter of all of us’
The ordeal of eight Venezuelan women deported to El Salvador and rejected by Bukele’s government
US officials did not tell the migrants they were being sent to Central America, where authorities refused to take them in. Three are now in Venezuela and five remain in detention in the United States
Trump’s extortion of Latin America: What the Republican has extracted through threats
The magnate’s main tool of intimidation has been tariffs, which he has leveraged to extract concessions from allied countries such as Mexico and Colombia
The abandoned homes of Venezuelan migrants
The massive exodus has given rise to a new service: clearing out the homes of those who have decided they’re not coming back
Ernesto Samper: ‘Latin America’s right-wing drift could end in a new kind of fascism’
The former Colombian president analyzes the challenges facing the left in the region following Trump’s return: ‘Wokeism has reduced us to a kind of minority tribalism’
María Corina Machado: ‘They think they’re unbeatable because they have the weapons, the money, and the control’
The Venezuelan opposition leader asserts that the US-led rescue operation to extract five opposition members demonstrates Maduro’s ‘vulnerability’
Henrique Capriles: ‘Abstention in Venezuela only makes things easier for Maduro’
In an interview with EL PAÍS, the opposition politician defends his decision to run in the parliamentary and regional elections and reflects on the strategy to confront Chavismo
Trump’s immigration policy and ties to Bukele hit Venezuelan opposition and give Maduro a boost
The US president’s hostility toward the diaspora raises doubts about Washington’s true interest in a transition to democracy in Venezuela
Fear and heartbreak in Venezuelan grandparents’ ‘self-deportation’ from the US
The couple returned to their country, driven by fear of the Trump administration’s immigration terror machine — an apparatus that boasts about a rise in voluntary departures, yet offers no evidence to back its claims
‘Being Venezuelan is now a crime’: the terror behind the illegal deportation of 238 migrants to El Salvador’s infamous prison
EL PAÍS reconstructs, based on different cases, the ordeal of the families of the immigrants sent to the Central American country from the United States amidst accusations of mass arbitrary detention and forced disappearance
‘Venezuela is not Tren de Aragua’: A snapshot of a community targeted by the Trump administration
Official data places the total number of Venezuelans in the United States at 2% of its Latino residents, and shows that only 0.08% are linked to their home country’s most notorious criminal group
Venezuelans trapped in Mexico, between Trump and Maduro: ‘We had the American dream. It didn’t happen’
Without passports and trapped by a sealed border, hundreds of Venezuelans seek repatriation at their embassy after being persecuted and kidnapped at the border
Truths, lies, and myths about Tren de Aragua
The gang, born in a Venezuelan prison, is considered a powerful criminal organization, but it is not capable of being a national security threat as Donald Trump claims
‘They look for any excuse to get us’: Panic paralyzes Venezuelan migrant communities
Deportation fears intensify after Trump’s decision to end humanitarian parole, which has left 1.2 million people without legal protection
Rubio warns Venezuela of the consequences of attacking Guyana: ‘It would be a very bad day for them’
The US Secretary of State considers Caracas’ sovereignty claims over the Essequibo region to be illegitimate, and expresses support for the small oil-rich nation where ExxonMobil operates
Trump’s Homeland Security Secretary warns migrants from Bukele’s mega-prison: ‘We will hunt you down’
Kristi Noem showcases her support for the Salvadoran president and visits the center where the 200 Venezuelans deported in mid-March are being held
Trump’s deportations hit Venezuela: From Maduro’s outrage to the opposition’s fears
The criminalization of migrants, the uncertainty surrounding sanctions against the Venezuelan government, and the US president’s interests further exacerbate the country’s political crisis
Lawyers ask El Salvador’s Supreme Court to release Venezuelans deported from US
A Salvadoran law firm hired by the Maduro government says there is no legal basis for keeping Trump’s deportees in prison
Venezuela calls Trump’s secondary tariffs ‘illegal and desperate’
The Maduro government is threatening to take legal action against what it considers a violation of international trade laws
Trump’s other deportations: Automatic processes and secret expulsions of grandmothers
The criminalization of Venezuelans sent to El Salvador heightens the vulnerability of a group of 600,000 people who are without consular assistance
A tattoo of Real Madrid: The Trump administration’s ‘proof’ for deporting a Venezuelan to El Salvador
Jerce Reyes Barrios’ lawyer claims that the famous club’s logo and a hand gesture were enough for authorities to accuse her client, a kids’ soccer coach, of belonging to the Tren de Aragua gang
Venezuela warns its citizens that they could be subjected to ‘human rights violations’ in the US
Jorge Rodríguez, president of the Assembly and Maduro’s main political operative, says that the laws promoted by Donald Trump are comparable to ‘the racial laws of Nazi Germany’
White House denies defying judge’s order to halt the deportation of hundreds of migrants to El Salvador
The judge blocked the application of an 18th-century law that Trump invoked to deport detainees linked to the Tren de Aragua criminal organization. The case may now head to the Supreme Court