The Latest Breaking News from Venezuela

After a 15-day overland journey during which she feared a heart attack from the high altitude, Venezuelan hairdresser Giovaneska Escobar finally reached Chile, the country where she hoped to rebuild her life with her two young children.

Plus: the “No Kings” protests, Trump pays troop salaries during government shutdown, and the continued bombing of drug boats in Venezuela

Republican Sen. Rand Paul again slammed President Donald Trump over the administration's military pressure campaign on Venezuela, which, according to different reports, ultimately seek to oust the Caracas regime

Venezuelan former Major League Baseball player Jesús Montero, once a top prospect for the New York Yankees and later a designated hitter with the Seattle Mariners, has died at the age of 35 following complications from a motorcycle accident in his home country.

While the U.S. is blowing up small vessels in the Caribbean, accusing Venezuela of using them to send drugs to the U.S., a new report affirms that the government of Nicolás Maduro is using a clandestine network of oil tankers to bypass U.S. sanctions and maintain crude shipments to Cuba.

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva warned against a "foreign intervention" in Latin America, a veiled reference to ramped up pressure by the Trump administration on Venezuela, claiming that his government "prioritizes" keeping the region as a "zone of peace."

Jordan Goudreau, a former U.S. Green Beret involved in a failed 2020 armed incursion into Venezuela, has alleged that the CIA created the so-called "Cartel de los Soles" in the 1990s and later used it to justify U.S. policies against successive Venezuelan governments.

Venezuelan Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino Lopez said citizens should "prepare for the worst" as the Trump administration ramps up pressure against the regime, seeking the ouster of authoritarian President Nicolas Maduro

Venezuela's authoritarian President Nicolas Maduro is highly unlikely to be toppled by his own military despite increased pressure from the Trump administration, according to a new report

Over the summer, the United States deployed warships to the Caribbean – ostensibly to menace drug traffickers but also as a none-too-subtle warning to Venezuela. Earlier in the year, a U.S. Navy destroyer bobbed along waters close to Iran for similar reasons. And in the Taiwan Straits and Pacific, China…

Church bells rang out and fireworks burst in the sky Sunday as Venezuela -- mired in crisis -- welcomed the canonization of two of its people as saints.