A former Miami congressman and close friend of U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has been convicted in connection with a secret $50 million lobbying campaign on behalf of Venezuela’s socialist government during the first Trump administration.

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

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A U.S. special forces soldier has pleaded not guilty in federal court in New York to charges that he used classified information about the mission to capture former Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro to win more than $400,000.

The latest U.S. military strike on a boat accused of ferrying drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean killed three people Sunday.

The U.S. military says it launched another strike on a boat accused of ferrying drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing two people Friday.

A U.S. soldier involved in the military operation to capture Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has been charged with using classified information about the mission to win more than $400,000 in an online betting market.

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

The U.S. military says it's launched another strike on a boat accused of ferrying drugs in the Caribbean Sea.

U.S. military forces have struck a vessel in the Eastern Pacific, killing three men the Pentagon says were trafficking drugs.

The U.S. military has launched a strike on another boat accused of carrying drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing four people.

The U.S. military says it carried out another strike Monday on a boat accused of trafficking drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing two people.

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.

Prediction markets let people wager on just about anything — from basketball games to elections.

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.

The trial has begun for former congressman David Rivera over allegations he secretly lobbied for Venezuela’s government during the first Trump administration.

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

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

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel says his government has held recent talks with the U.S. His comments on Friday mark the first time the Caribbean country has confirmed speculation about active communication with the Trump administration which has been openly hostile toward the communist government.

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.

The top Justice Department prosecutor in Miami is considering criminal investigations of Cuban government officials.

The Trump administration in recent weeks has taken forceful steps in one Latin American country after another aimed at curbing the influence and economic dominance of China.

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

The Justice Department has filed a complaint to legally take ownership of a sanctioned tanker and nearly 2 million barrels of petroleum seized off the coast of Venezuela in December.

A helicopter pilot wounded in the raid that captured then-Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has received the Medal of Honor during President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio is traveling to the Caribbean country of St. Kitts and Nevis this week to reassert the Trump administration’s interests in the Western Hemisphere.

Venezuela has begun releasing hundreds of people detained for political reasons under a new amnesty law.

The top U.S. military commander for Latin America has met with Venezuela’s acting president in Caracas as both sides discuss security and policy goals.

The U.S. military says it's carried out strikes on three boats accused of smuggling drugs in Latin American waters.

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

President Trump used a Fort Bragg appearance on Friday to praise U.S. Special Forces for last month's raid that removed Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro.

Venezuela’s ruling party lawmakers have debated an amnesty bill that could free hundreds of people held for political reasons.

President Donald Trump has invited Latin American leaders to take part in a summit in Florida next month, gathering the officials at a moment when the administration is spotlighting what it sees as concerning Chinese influence in the region.

U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright is visiting Venezuela to assess the country's oil industry as the Trump administration eases sanctions and pushes a major overhaul.

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

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.

The nearly monthlong disappearance from public view of Bolivia’s towering socialist icon, ex-leader Evo Morales, just days after the Jan. 3 U.S. seizure of former Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, his close ally, is alarming his supporters, roiling his enemies and galvanizing the internet.

Venezuela’s acting President Delcy Rodríguez has signed a law that will open the nation’s oil sector to privatization.

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.

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.

The U.S. military says the death toll from strikes on alleged drug boats is up to 126 people, with the inclusion of those presumed dead after being lost at sea.

Venezuela’s leading prisoner rights organization says that dozens of prisoners were released over the weekend.

The aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln and three accompanying warships have arrived in the Middle East.

Priests and priestesses of the Afro-Cuban religion known as Santería have offered gifts to deities and asked for peace as tensions rise between the United States and Cuba and the island braces for more economic difficulties.

The U.S. military says it’s carried out a deadly strike on a vessel accused of trafficking drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, the first since the raid that captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro earlier this month.

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

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

Latin American progressive leaders are increasingly being backed into a corner on organized crime by pressure from the Trump administration and their own voters, who point to the results from El Salvador's war on gangs.

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado says she’s confident of her country’s eventual transition to democracy after the U.S. military ousted former President Nicolás Maduro.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum says that efforts to crack down on Mexican cartels and slow migration north were showing “compelling results” in an effort to head off intervention by the Trump administration.

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.

Venezuela’s acting President Delcy Rodríguez has used her first state of the union message to advocate opening the state-run oil industry to more foreign investment.

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

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado says she presented her Nobel Peace Prize medal to President Donald Trump.

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.

A legal memo that came out days before the U_S_ military operation against Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro said such a move would “not rise to the level of a war in the constitutional sense” and would serve “important national interests."

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

A new poll shows most Americans believe President Donald Trump has “gone too far” in using the U.S. military to intervene in other countries.

Senate Republicans have voted to dismiss a war powers resolution that would have limited President Donald Trump’s ability to conduct further attacks on Venezuela.

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.

A federal judge has rejected attorney Bruce Fein's bid to join the legal team representing former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro against charges in a long running drug conspiracy.

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

For thousands of Venezuelans living in the U.S., the days since the Trump administration ousted Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro have brought a mixture of joy and trepidation.

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.

Venezuelan detainee Diógenes Angulo has been released from prison after a year and five months.

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.

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 Thursday brought relief and guarded optimism to a country consumed by uncertainty.

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 U.S. has seized a Venezuela-linked oil tanker in the North Atlantic, backed by British support.

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

President Donald Trump is proposing setting U_S_ military spending at $1_5 trillion in 2027, citing “troubled and dangerous times.”.

The European Union is renewing negotiations for a free trade agreement with five South American nations neighboring Venezuela.

Colombian President Gustavo Petro has strongly criticized the Trump administration’s actions against Venezuela.

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.

Faith leaders are urging prayers for peace following the U.S. capture of Nicolás Maduro.

Opposition supporters have long hoped their leaders could replace Nicolás Maduro as Venezuela's president.

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.

A photo of 21-year-old Mariana Camargo dashing through the streets of eastern Caracas as explosions boomed in the background was soon on front pages of major international outlets.

President Donald Trump promised that “America First” would stand against more foreign entanglements.

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.

President Donald Trump hasn’t minced words about the larger message he’s trying to send the world with the U.S. military raid to capture Nicolás Maduro.

Allies and adversaries of the United States have used an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council to voice opposition to the audacious U.S. military operation in Venezuela that captured leader Nicolás Maduro.

Shares of major U.S. companies in the energy sector are sharply higher after President Donald Trump announced plans to take control of Venezuela’s oil industry and said American companies would revitalize it after capturing President Nicolás Maduro.

The U.S. capture and ouster of Venezuelan strongman leader Nicolás Maduro marked a stunning culmination of the Trump administration’s efforts to assert dominance in Latin America.

Emotions ran high Sunday in Central Florida as the Venezuelan community reacted to a major turning point back home.

Venezuela's interim President Delcy Rodríguez has taken the place of her ally President Nicolás Maduro who was captured by the United States in a nighttime military operation.