National security expert Rebeccah Heinrichs says the Trump administration’s escalating pressure campaign against Venezuela, intensified by designating Nicolás Maduro’s regime a foreign terrorist ...

An oil refinery in Cabimas, Venezuela in 2019. Its infrastructure is collapsing under mismanagement and sanctions. (Michael Robinson Chavez/The Washington Post) A Russian oil tanker en route to ...

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro on Wednesday danced to Bobby McFerrin’s “Don’t Worry, Be Happy” while urging attendees at a rally to be ready in case of an American attack amid rising tensions ...

Time is a tyrant’s best friend. Nicolás Maduro is not leaving power because he doesn’t feel an existential threat to his regime. On the contrary, he is betting that internal divisions over Venezuela ...

MADISON - Wisconsin won't see any new bars that allow the smoking of tobacco, after Gov. Tony Evers vetoed a bill that aimed to expand the numbers of cigar bars. Evers vetoed the "cigar bar" bill on ...

TOPSHOT - Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro dances with supporters during a rally in Caracas on December 1, 2025. Venezuela does not want "a slave's peace," President Nicolas Maduro told thousands ...

President Maduro’s appeal to oil-rich nations Sunday laid bare just how isolated he has become, a Latin American oil expert says, before describing Venezuela as "broke" and drowning in $150 billion of ...

President Trump’s threat of military action has confronted President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela with the gravest challenge of his crisis-ridden reign. President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela during a ...

Trump rejected Maduro's requests for amnesty, sanction removal, sources say Maduro's safe passage offer expired, prompting US airspace closure, sources say Maduro proposed Delcy Rodriguez lead interim ...

Donald Trump ratchets up the pressure on Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro to resign and effectively closes Venezuelan airspace. Plus, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth denies giving an order to fire a ...

President Donald Trump allegedly gave Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro an ultimatum to leave the country in order to “save” himself in the face of a possible US invasion. Trump told reporters on ...

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro brandished a sword and vowed to defend “every inch” of his country in a theatrical stunt during escalating tensions with President Trump. The socialist despot was ...