2026 United States intervention in Venezuela

8 hours ago - In August 2025, the United States began a military buildup in the southern Caribbean, deploying warships and military personnel. The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) sent a team into Venezuela that began tracking Maduro's movements, using a source close to the Venezuelan president, and plans were made for the capture of Maduro months in advance.

4 days ago - G.O.P. leaders succeeded in pressuring fellow senators who initially supported the measure that would have limited President Trump’s military authority in Venezuela. ... Senator Josh Hawley, Republican of Missouri, reversed himself on the war powers resolution, saying that Secretary of State ...

2 days ago - Senate Republicans on Wednesday evening narrowly blocked a final vote on a war powers resolution, which would have prevented President Trump from taking any further military action in Venezuela. V…

3 days ago - WASHINGTON, Jan 14 (Reuters) - U.S. Senate Republicans blocked a resolution on Wednesday that would have barred President Donald Trump from further military action in Venezuela without Congress' authorization, after the Republican president put pressure on party members who had supported it. The vote was 51-50 for a Republican point of order to dismiss the war powers resolution, as just three of Trump's Republicans voted with every Democrat in favor of moving ahead and Vice President JD Vance came to the Capitol to break the tie.

3 days ago - Louis Public Radio on Wednesday, Hawley said he received assurances from Secretary of State Marco Rubio that there won’t be any U.S. ground troops in Venezuela. He said he also spoke with officials with the Department of Justice and Trump about the issue. “If the security situation should change, they will abide by the War Powers notification procedures, and they will come back to Congress.

4 days ago - Sen. Josh Hawley, one of the five Republican senators who broke with the president last week, said Wednesday he would back a procedural off-ramp.

1 day ago - John Bolton, National Security ... The Threat, former Deputy Director of the FBI, Andrew McCabe, quotes Trump as saying of Venezuela "That's the country we should be going to war with, they have all that oil and they're right on our back door."...

1 week ago - After the surgical strike on Caracas that led to the capture of President Maduro, the Pentagon has set their sights on the Bella 1 after sanctioning the vessel in 2024 for operating within a 'shadow fleet' of tankers transporting illicit Venezuelan oil.

4 days ago - Tim Kaine's resolution which would block the use of U.S. armed forces to engage in hostilities within or against Venezuela unless authorized by Congress. In remarks on the Senate floor ahead of the vote, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Sen. Jim Risch said that the war powers resolution was a debate about "trying to stop something that is not happening."

4 days ago - Senate Republican leaders are eyeing a procedural maneuver on the Venezuela war powers resolution that could spare President Trump an embarrassing defeat.

6 days ago - There is a straight line from the post-9/11 national security framework to the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. Operation Southern Spear encapsulates the legal chaos generated by executives seeking to maximize power since 2001.

4 days ago - “We are not at war,” he said after the classified briefing with senior administration officials on Capitol Hill. “We do not have U.S. armed forces in Venezuela and we are not occupying that country,.