The Latest Breaking News from Venezuela

Exclusive: sources say powerful figures in the regime secretly told US and Qatari officials they would welcome Maduro’s departure

The Trump administration has released a video of a Venezuela-linked tanker which the US military apprehended on Tuesday (20 January), the seventh such incident of its kind.

Administration reportedly seeking government insiders able to ‘see the writing on the wall’ and prepared to strike a deal to remove Havana’s Communist rulers

Rep. Brian Mast, a Republican from Florida and chair of the committee, went on the record saying he could not see how there could be anyone else "with a greater vision" for Venezuela than Machado.

A long-haul Ilyushin IL-96-300 operated by Cuba's state airline has made repeated, largely opaque flights between Havana and Caracas in recent days, fueling indications that the Cuban government is quietly repatriating personnel deployed in Venezuela following the U.S. operation that led to the capture of authoritarian President Nicolás Maduro.

Looking at headlines around the world, it seemed like United States President Donald Trump’s annexation of Greenland was imminent. Buoyed by the success of his military operation to oust Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, Trump ratcheted up his rhetoric and threatened tariffs on any nation that opposed him.

Lippman's foreign policy commentary spans Latin America, Europe, and the Middle East. He frames American engagement as a blend of support for democratic processes, deterrence of aggression, and strategic pressure on actors that threaten stability.

Venezuela's interim leader, Delcy Rodríguez, has appointed a U.S.-trained economist to lead the country's main investment agency, a move widely seen as an attempt to attract foreign investment to the oil industry.

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Venezuelan opposition leader Freddy Guevara explains support for U.S. intervention, how socialism destroyed Venezuela, and what a democratic transition would require.

On Jan. 20, 2026, Donald Trump posted an AI-generated image featuring a map with the U.S. borders expanded to include Canada, Greenland, Cuba, and Venezuela under the American flag. Now we can’t help but ask, can someone take away Trump’s AI subscriptions immediately, please?