Venezuela

The Venezuelan opposition leader has been organizing internal resistance and persuading Washington to toughen its stance against Nicolás Maduro

Washington’s offensive revives the specter of Nicolás Maduro’s downfall, an expectation that continues to shape the course of Chavismo’s rivals

The new National Security Strategy aims to ‘restore American preeminence’ to the Western Hemisphere

Trump’s offensive has left the country virtually cut off from the world ahead of the Christmas holidays

Between threatening to strike the country and resuming repatriation flights for migrants, the US president is sending mixed signals. Meanwhile, his unprecedented military deployment in the Caribbean is awaiting orders

Trump’s new National Security Strategy places the main geopolitical focus on the Americas and calls on the region to help curb immigration, drug trafficking, and China’s influence

As drug production and trafficking increase across the continent, criminal groups of all sizes are diversifying their operations and increasing their firepower. Governments, meanwhile, stumble between hard-line policies and paralysis

The Defense Secretary is already under scrutiny for his role in a possible war crime in the Caribbean, where survivors of a US military attack on a boat were killed in a follow-up strike

Chavismo had been withholding any information about this call for days, giving rise to endless speculation. Experts say it could be a first step toward continuing dialogue within a context of heightened tension

The Treasury Secretary is targeting individuals it accuses of having ties to the Tren de Aragua criminal gang, including the singer Rosita

The US president said that extrajudicial attacks against suspected drug-trafficking boats will continue: ‘We’re taking those sons of a bitches out’

Despite Donald Trump’s statement that Venezuelan airspace was closed, the two weekly flights to Caracas carrying deported migrants will resume

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

The president has confirmed he spoke to Nicolás Maduro by phone on November 21. According to Reuters, during that call the Chavista leader received a deadline to step down by last Friday. The Venezuelan leader is allegedly seeking a second phone conversation

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

William Botsch has been attending Miami courthouses weekly since May, where he has witnessed and documented the systematic arrests of migrants seized after attending appointments that were routine prior to Trump 2.0

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 22-year-old became a social media sensation, with long lines of customers coming daily to buy his rice from the back of his car. Now ‘El Chino Venezolano’ has opened a business in the trendy Malasaña neighborhood of the Spanish capital

The Republican discussed the next step following the extrajudicial killings in the Caribbean: ‘We warned them. Stop sending poison to our country’

The announcement that the US president is willing to talk with the Venezuelan leader offers an uncertain window of opportunity for a negotiated solution to the crisis between the two countries

The US military escalation raises questions about the island’s future and its historical dependence on the South American nation

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 Secretary of State, a key figure in America’s two major international fronts, is leading the hardline stance against Chavismo while toning down pro-Russian positions in talks with Kyiv

The deployment of 5,000 soldiers and the reopening of a base revive fears tied to the 60 years Vieques served as a training camp and artillery range

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