#Venezuela

U.S. lawmakers split along party lines after being briefed on Thursday on a strike against a suspected drug boat in the Caribbean, with Democrats saying they were horrified by ...

The White House defended a U.S. admiral’s decision to conduct multiple strikes on an alleged Venezuelan drug-smuggling vessel in September, saying he had Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s ...

President Donald Trump said on Saturday the airspace above and surrounding Venezuela should be considered “closed in its entirety,” but gave no further details, stirring anxiety and confusion in Caracas ...

Venezuela is deploying weapons, including decades-old Russian-made equipment, and is planning to mount a guerrilla-style resistance or sow chaos in the event of a U.S. air or ground attack, ...

The U.S. has reported carrying out 13 strikes since September on vessels near the Venezuelan coast and more recently, in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing more than 60 people, according to ...

President Donald Trump confirmed that he authorized the Central Intelligence Agency to conduct covert operations in Venezuela, marking a sharp escalation in U.S. efforts to pressure President Nicolas Maduro’...

Venezuela’s government said on Monday it will close its embassies in Norway and Australia and open new ones in Burkina Faso and Zimbabwe as part of a restructuring of ...

By Robert Muggah For many in Venezuela, the question is no longer whether tensions with Washington will reach a boiling point – they already have. Rather, the big unknown now is ...

The United States has ordered the deployment of ten F-35 fighter jets to a Puerto Rico airfield to conduct operations against drug cartels, sources say, adding more firepower to intensifying ...

The U.S. military killed 11 people on Tuesday in a strike on a vessel from Venezuela allegedly carrying illegal narcotics, President Donald Trump said, in the first known operation since ...

The United States military carried out a “lethal strike” on Tuesday in the Caribbean against a vessel from Venezuela that was carrying illegal drugs, officials said. President Donald Trump, who ...

Tensions between the United States and Venezuela are rising amid a large U.S. naval buildup in the Southern Caribbean and nearby waters, which U.S. officials say aims to ...

The United States has ordered an amphibious squadron to the southern Caribbean as part of President Donald Trump’s effort to address threats from Latin American drug cartels, two sources ...

Venezuela Attorney General Tarek Saab said on Monday that his office will investigate El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele and two other officials for the alleged abuse of Venezuelans who ...

By Andrew Chung, Luc Cohen, Kristina Cooke and Jack Queen The US Supreme Court early on Saturday paused the Trump administration from deporting Venezuelan men in immigration custody after their ...

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio warned Venezuela on Thursday that it would be “a very bad day” for the South American country if it were to attack its ...

US President Donald Trump on Wednesday announced a reversal of concessions given to Venezuela on an oil transaction agreement by his predecessor Joe Biden. Trump, in a post on Truth ...

Venezuela opposition leader Maria Corina Machado was “violently intercepted” leaving a march, her first public appearance in months, the opposition said on social media on Thursday. The opposition are protesting ...

Venezuela has detained three Americans and two others for alleged terrorist activities, Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello said on Thursday, marking an increase in the count of foreign prisoners in the ...

Venezuelan opposition presidential candidate Edmundo Gonzalez flew into Spain on Sunday to seek asylum, Madrid said, hours after quitting his country amid a political and diplomatic crisis over July’s ...

The United States has seized a plane used by Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and flown it from the Dominican Republic to Florida after determining that its purchase violated US sanctions, ...

Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro on Tuesday made major changes to his cabinet, including leadership of the oil and finance ministries and state oil company PDVSA, after a contested election ...

European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said on Wednesday the bloc could not recognise Venezuela’s election result until all votes were counted and records provided, amid international concerns ...

Venezuela opposition leader Maria Corina Machado said on Monday the country’s opposition has 73.2% of the voting tallies from Sunday’s election, allowing it to prove election results it says ...