Blockading Venezuela’s oil shipments finally gives teeth to a sanctions regime that dictator Nicolas Maduro has only scoffed at, offering real hope for a peaceful transition of power.

Venezuela’s government has ordered its Navy to escort ships carrying petroleum products from port, escalating the risk of a confrontation with the United States after President Trump ordered a “blockade” aimed at the country’s oil industry.

An American special forces veteran led the operation to get María Corina Machado out of Venezuela: "The first Nobel Prize winner that we've ever rescued."

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump spoke with Venezuela's Nicolas Maduro last week and discussed a possible meeting between them in the United States, the New York Times reported on Friday, citing multiple people with knowledge of the matter. The ...

President of Venezuela Nicolás Maduro participates in a civic-military march on November 25, 2025, in Caracas, Venezuela. Getty Images Exactly what Team Trump intends to do with (or to) Venezuela is far from clear, but it clearly wants the Maduro regime ...

Following the 2003 Iraq war, the words “regime change” became Washington’s foreign policy’s third rail. Barack Obama’s anti-war vote lifted him all the way to the White House. President Trump, ever the transactional, wondered why we didn’t at ...

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