President Trump’s pressure campaign against Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro continues to ramp up, with his threat this past week to impose a blockade on sanctioned oil tankers, but the

The M/T Skipper seized by U.S. Coast Guard, was a sanctioned crude-oil tanker previously identified as part of an oil shipping network supporting Lebanese group Hezbollah and Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' Quds Force, both U.S.-designated terrorist organizations.

President Donald Trump announced Tuesday what he called a "blockade" of sanctioned Venezuelan oil tankers, ratcheting up American pressure on the Venezuelan regime.

Trump administration's new National Security Strategy elevates Western Hemisphere as security priority, targeting Venezuela crisis and instability.

Sign up for our newsletter about national security here. Nicolás Maduro sounded remarkably chipper last week for a man about to face off with a United States armada ...

As he realizes his glory days under former President Joe Biden are over, Venezuela’s communist dictator, Nicolas Maduro, backtracked on his initial remarks and is now begging the U.S. to de-escalate the situation. “The government of the United States ...

On Friday, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro was sworn in for his third six-year term, defying critics in the international community who say his victory in July’s election was illegitimate. Retribution against the re-anointed Maduro came swiftly.

One year ago, opposition candidate Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia won a landslide victory in Venezuela's presidential election, defeating President Nicolas Maduro by over 40 percentage points according to voting receipts independently collected from over 80 ...

New U.S. sanctions have been imposed on family members and associates of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro as Washington increases pressure on Caracas. The measures have targeted seven people who are family members or associates of Malpica Flores,