The U.S. military has conducted a rapid response exercise in Venezuela’s capital.

The Trump administration’s strategy against Cuba is looking a lot like the playbook for Venezuela.

Alex Saab, a close ally of ousted Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, has been charged in Miami with bribing officials for government contracts.

Venezuela’s government says it has deported a close ally of Nicolás Maduro to face judicial proceedings in the U.S. less than three years after the business owner was pardoned by President Joe Biden as part of a prisoner swap.

Venezuela’s acting President Delcy Rodríguez tells journalists that her country has no plans to become the 51st U.S. state after President Donald Trump said he was “seriously considering” the move.

Venezuela insists that a mineral-rich region of Guyana was fraudulently taken in the 19th century.

The first direct commercial flight between the United States and Venezuela has arrived in the Venezuelan capital Caracas.

The USS Gerald R.

Venezuelan women have spent the year protesting to demand the release of hundreds of political prisoners.

Colombian President Gustavo Petro is visiting Venezuela for key talks on border security and trade with the country's acting president, Delcy Rodríguez.

President Donald Trump's threat of military intervention in Cuba is raising hopes of regime change among Cuban Americans.

Venezuela's exiled opposition leader María Corina Machado has drawn several thousand supporters to a rally in Madrid.

The world’s largest aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald R.

Venezuelan lawmakers have approved a bill to regulate mining as the country seeks to attract leery foreign investors to a once-private industry that has long been exploited by criminal groups with ties to the government.

The criminal trial of a former congressman is offering a glimpse into the prehistory of the ouster of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.

The U.S. has lifted sanctions on Venezuela’s acting President Delcy Rodríguez.

Venezuela’s acting President Delcy Rodríguez is selling investors on a newly opened oil industry and looser U.S. sanctions.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has testified for nearly three hours over his interactions with former Florida congressman David Rivera.

President Donald Trump this week said he believes he’ll have “the honor of taking Cuba” soon.

Venezuelans pour into the streets in a rare, loud release of joy after their team wins the World Baseball Classic.

The Treasury Department is easing sanctions on Venezuela’s state oil company.

Venezuelan and American fans packed Miami for the U.S.-Venezuela World Baseball Classic final.

Venezuela has won the World Baseball Classic for the first time, rebounding from a blown eighth-inning lead to beat the United States 3-2 on Eugenio Suárez’s tiebreaking double in the ninth.

The American flag has been raised over the U.S. Embassy in Caracas for the first time since 2019.

Venezuela and Colombia cancel a high-profile presidential border meeting, even as both sides say they still want closer ties.

Prosecutors at the International Criminal Court are dropping an investigation into whether U.S. sanctions against Venezuela qualified as crimes against humanity.

Venezuela’s lawmakers debate a new mining bill that aims to attract foreign investment and rebuild trust after past expropriations.

Venezuelan fans are turning the World Baseball Classic in Miami into a celebration.

The State Department says the United States and Venezuela have agreed to reestablish diplomatic relations in a major shift in a historically adversarial relationship.

Venezuela enters the World Baseball Classic in Miami with politics hanging over the tournament.

U.S. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum is meeting Venezuela’s acting President Delcy Rodríguez as the Trump administration pushes to shape the country's oil and mineral sector.

Regime change might seem straightforward at first.

The lawyer for deposed Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has asked a judge to toss out the indictment against his client on the grounds that the United States has violated his rights to defend himself by blocking funds to pay his legal costs.

The lawyer for deposed Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro says the United States is blocking funding for the cost of defending himself against drug trafficking charges.

Marco Rubio is visiting the Caribbean, where he's defending the Trump administration’s military operation to capture Venezuela's Nicolás Maduro.

The Pentagon says U.S. military forces have boarded a third sanctioned oil tanker in the Indian Ocean after tracking it from the Caribbean Sea in an effort to target illicit oil connected to Venezuela.

Venezuela’s government says it is freeing large numbers of people held for political reasons after passing a new amnesty law.

Venezuela has passed a new amnesty law, but some families of political detainees and prisoners' rights groups are reacting with mixed feelings.

Venezuela’s acting president Delcy Rodríguez has signed into law an amnesty bill that could lead to the release of politicians, activists, lawyers and many others.

The U.S. military says it's boarded another sanctioned oil tanker in the Indian Ocean.

A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to make arrangements to allow some of the Venezuelan migrants flown to a notorious prison in El Salvador to return to the U.

The U.S. Justice Department is targeting Alex Saab, a businessman linked to Nicolás Maduro, in an investigation that could impact the U.S. prosecution of the deposed Venezuelan leader.

Juan Pablo Guanipa, an ally of Venezuela's opposition leader María Corina Machado, has been placed under house arrest.

The U.S. military says it has boarded a sanctioned oil tanker in the Indian Ocean.

Venezuela's top prosecutor says his office has requested the arrest of Juan Pablo Guanipa, a close ally of opposition leader María Corina Machado.

Venezuela’s government has released several prominent opposition members from prison, including one of the closest allies of Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado.

Venezuela’s former President Nicolás Maduro and the country’s acting President Delcy Rodríguez were both raised Catholic in an overwhelmingly Christian country.

In Venezuela, political critics are emerging from hiding following the U.S. ouster of President Nicolás Maduro.

Thirty days after the U.S. captured then-President Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela remains in turmoil.

U.S. charge d’affaires Laura Dogu has arrived in Caracas to reopen the American diplomatic mission in Venezuela after seven years of severed ties.

The United States will allow Venezuela to sell oil that's currently under American sanctions and use the proceeds to pay for basic government services.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has given a full-throated defense of President Donald Trump's military operation to oust and arrest then-Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.

The Trump administration has notified Congress that it is taking the first steps to possibly reopen the shuttered U.S. Embassy in Venezuela as it explores restoring relations with the South American country following the U.S. military raid that ousted then-President Nicolás Maduro.

Venezuela’s legislature is debating a major overhaul of its oil sector, the first since Hugo Chávez's era.

The Trump administration is arguing the government could detain and deport British people under an 18th century wartime act if a president found there was a “British invasion” corrupting young Americans.

The son-in-law of Venezuelan opposition figure Edmundo González has been released after more than a year in detention.

U.S. forces have boarded and taken control of a seventh oil tanker connected with Venezuela.

The Federal Aviation Administration is urging U.S. aircraft operators to “exercise caution” when flying over the eastern Pacific Ocean near Mexico, Central America and parts of South America, citing “military activities” and satellite navigation interference.

CIA Director John Ratcliffe has met with Venezuela’s acting President Delcy Rodríguez.

Tens of thousands of Cubans have gathered in Havana to protest the killing of 32 Cuban officers in Venezuela.

The Marine Corps general tapped to lead U.S. military operations in Latin America says he's ready to oversee an expanded presence but isn't sure what the Trump administration has planned.

U.S. forces in the Caribbean Sea have seized another sanctioned oil tanker the Trump administration says has ties to Venezuela.

The bodies of 32 Cuban officers killed during a stunning U.S. attack on Venezuela have been repatriated to their homeland.

Deputy White House Chief of Staff Stephen Miller has argued for years that the Venezuelan government has intentionally orchestrated mass migration into the United States.

Venezuela’s acting President Delcy Rodríguez vows to continue releasing prisoners detained under former President Nicolás Maduro.

The Senate sidelined a war powers resolution Wednesday that would have put a check on President Donald Trump’s ability to carry out further military attacks on Venezuela, as the president put intense pressure on his fellow Republicans to vote down the measure.

The Trump administration says multiple Americans who were detained in Venezuela have been released.

The plane used by the U.S. military to strike an alleged drug-smuggling boat off Venezuela last fall was painted to look like a civilian aircraft.

Edilson Torres has been buried in his hometown after dying in a Venezuelan prison.

Colombia’s National Liberation Army called for a “national accord” to overcome political conflicts, as it faces the prospects of attacks from the governments of Colombia and the United States.

Yaxzodara Lozada has woken up freezing on a sidewalk outside a Venezuelan prison, hoping her husband, a police officer detained in November, will be released.

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel says his administration is not in talks with the U.S. government.

Minnesota and the Twin Cities are suing the federal government to stop surge by federal immigration authorities.

Pope Leo XIV has met with Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado at the Vatican.

President Donald Trump says he is “inclined” to keep ExxonMobil out of Venezuela after its top executive was skeptical about oil investment efforts in the country after the toppling of former President Nicolás Maduro.

There's another warning from President Donald Trump to Cuba in the wake of Nicolás Maduro's ouster in Venezuela.

Nicaragua’s Interior Ministry has announced the release of dozens of prisoners.

President Donald Trump has issued a new executive order to protect Venezuelan oil revenue from judicial proceedings.

As U.S. seizures of oil tankers linked to Venezuela surge, so do concerns in Cuba about whether the island’s government and economy will survive.

The United States and Venezuela are exploring the possibility of restoring diplomatic relations.

Environmental experts warn that U.S. plans under President Donald Trump to restart and control Venezuelan oil exports could intensify pollution, greenhouse gas emissions and ecological damage in a country already burdened by decades of oil-related degradation.

President Donald Trump is calling on oil executives to rush to invest in Venezuela as the White House looks to quickly secure $100 billion in private funding to revive the country's ability to fully tap into its expansive reserves of petroleum.

The U.S. military says U.S. forces have boarded another oil tanker in the Caribbean Sea as the Trump administration continues to target sanctioned tankers traveling to and from Venezuela.

President Donald Trump says American intervention in Venezuela will bring billions of dollars of investment in the country's infrastructure, a revival of its once-thriving oil industry and a new age of prosperity for the Latin American country.

Pope Leo XIV has denounced how nations are increasingly using force to assert their dominion worldwide.

Venezuela’s sudden release of detainees brought relief and guarded optimism to a country consumed by uncertainty.

President Donald Trump’s plan to control Venezuela's oil industry and counter China's influence could clash with his goal of stabilizing trade with Beijing.

Venezuela has released a number of imprisoned high-profile opposition figures, activists and journalists — both citizens and foreigners — nearly a week after former President Nicolás Maduro was captured by U.S. forces to face drug-trafficking charges.

The Senate has advanced a resolution that would limit President Donald Trump’s ability to conduct further attacks against Venezuela.

Venezuela's military has held a funeral for some of the soldiers killed during the U.S. operation that captured former President Nicolás Maduro.

Mexico has emerged as a key fuel supplier to Havana as the United States prepares to seize control of Venezuelan oil and the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump hardens its stance toward Cuba.

Venezuela’s oil industry has been in the spotlight since President Donald Trump captured the country’s President Nicolas Maduro.

President Donald Trump's administration is seeking to assert its control over Venezuelan oil, seizing two sanctioned tankers transporting petroleum and announcing plans to relax some sanctions so the U.S. can oversee the sale of Venezuela’s petroleum worldwide.

As Iran is gripped by new protests, many people there are focused on the U.S. raid in Venezuela and wonder whether the same could occur in Tehran.

Delcy Rodríguez, Venezuela's interim president, has risen to prominence through strategic moves and political savvy.

The Cuban government has revealed the identities of 32 military personnel killed during the U.S. capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.

President Donald Trump says Venezuela will be providing 30 million to 50 million barrels of oil to the U.S., and he pledges to use proceeds from the sale of this oil “to benefit the people” of both countries.

There are few signs that President Donald Trump’s supporters wanted the United States to become more embroiled in foreign conflicts — even as many Republicans show initial support for his military strike in Venezuela.

News organizations have gotten a rare “thank you” from the Trump administration for not putting its military action in Venezuela in jeopardy by reporting on it before it happened.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio and other top officials have briefed leaders in Congress on the striking military operation in Venezuela.