1 week ago - The President reiterated that the U.S. is not at war with Venezuela in a Jan. 5 interview with NBC, saying instead that the U.S. is “at war with people that sell drugs. We’re at war with people that empty their prisons into our country and ...

2 hours ago - On 3 January 2026, the United States launched a military strike on Venezuela and captured incumbent Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores. The US operation, codenamed Operation Absolute Resolve, began around 2 a.m. local time, when explosions were observed.

4 hours ago - Washington, 19 January (Argus) — US president Donald Trump's administration plans to protect future Venezuelan oil export revenue from seizure by US-based creditors, which hold billions of dollars in claims against Caracas and state-owned PdV. US actions have introduced a new twist in the years-long saga to auction off PdV-owned refiner Citgo as part of a court-mandated sale.

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12 hours ago - The acting president says she is staying true to her socialist roots while trying to meet the demands of the Trump administration

2 hours ago - Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) said Sunday the United States is in an “ongoing war” with Venezuela. “That is an act of war. It’s an ongoing war, to continue to take their oil; ongoing war to distribute it,…

12 hours ago - Her rescue from Venezuela came weeks before the US forces led a dead-of-night operation in Caracas earlier this month and captured Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife and fellow leader Cilia Flores.

May 3, 2021 - The mission of the U.S. Embassy is to advance the interests of the United States, and to serve and protect U.S. citizens in Venezuela.

18 hours ago - U.S. intelligence scrutiny over Venezuela is intensifying as reports say interim President Delcy Rodríguez has been on the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s radar for years. Watch for more on this!

14 hours ago - Brazilian President Lula criticised US military action in Venezuela, warning about the erosion of international law and global stability. He emphasized peaceful resolutions and regional cooperation.

15 hours ago - In an opinion essay in The New York Times, Lula said the US bombings in Venezuela and the capture of its president on January 3 marked “yet another regrettable chapter in the continuous erosion of international law and the multilateral order established after World War II.”

1 day ago - In 2025, during the second Trump administration, the United States sent Venezuelans accused of being members of Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua to the Center for the Confinement of Terrorism (CECOT), a maximum security prison in El Salvador. That same year, the US government designated gangs ...

2 weeks ago - The operation followed months of U.S. military buildup in the region, with the USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier and numerous other warships positioned in the Caribbean, and a series of deadly strikes on more than 30 boats the administration says were carrying drugs. ... Leading Venezuelan opposition figure Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia said in a video on social media Sunday that the U.S.

1 day ago - Yet, the successful U.S. operation to oust Maduro from Venezuela, which was largely staged from Puerto Rico, also reveals an unexpected paradox: The territory that safeguards American interests in the Caribbean is home to 3.2 million U.S.

3 days ago - Explosions rocked Caracas on Jan. 3 as US President Donald Trump announced a major operation that led to the capture of Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores, who now face narco-terrorism and weapons possession charges in the US.

1 week ago - The United States has urged its citizens to leave Venezuela immediately amid reports that armed paramilitaries are trying to track down US citizens, one week after the capture of the South American country’s president, Nicolás Maduro.

19 hours ago - NEW YORK/MIAMI/WASHINGTON, Jan 17 (Reuters) - Trump administration officials had been in discussions with Venezuela's hardline interior minister Diosdado Cabello months before the U.S. operation to seize President Nicolas Maduro, and have been in communication with him since then, according to multiple people familiar with the matter. The officials warned Cabello, 62, against using the security services or militant ruling-party supporters he oversees to target the country's opposition, four sources said.