Venezuela

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro appealed Thursday for calm as tensions rose with Washington, saying in English: “No crazy war, please!” His plea followed US President Donald Trump’s announcement that he had authorized covert action against Caracas amid an expanding US military campaign targeting alleged drug traffickers in the Caribbean and Pacific.

The Trump administration has surged warships, fighter jets and troops to the Caribbean for drug interdiction. Many see the ultimate goal as toppling Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.

The US leader’s open acknowledgment is unprecedented and smacks of desperation, the president has said

Trump's comments were an extraordinary acknowledgment from a president, and they step up the administration's pressure campaign against Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.

Venezuela's opposition leader and democracy activist Maria Corina Machado won the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize, the Norwegian Nobel Committee announced Friday, hailing her "tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuel

Nicolás Maduro accepts deportees and calls for the pope’s help in a bid to fend off American military action

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth says operation targeted vessel carrying substantial narcotics headed to America

El Dorado (Venezuela) (AFP) – Venezuela elected officials on Sunday for the first time for Essequibo region, an oil-rich territory that Caracas claims from neighboring Guyana as part of a centuries-old dispute.

Nayib Bukele offered to exchange 252 Venezuelan migrants deported to El Salvador for 252 prisoners in Venezuela

Move could sharply increase levies on China and India as major purchasers of Caracas’s crude

The planes full of migrants were in the air just hours after the president invoked wartime authority. Families say innocent people were swept up in the rush.