Chief Executive Mike Wirth has orchestrated a yearslong campaign to keep the Latin American country open for oil production.

Rep. Mike Turner (R-Ohio) said that lawmakers were “very frustrated” with a bipartisan House classified briefing Thursday on the U.S. military’s strikes against alleged drug-trafficking boats in

The two main leaders of Venezuela's opposition are increasingly divided over looming U.S. actions targeting the country, even as a crackdown against opposition figures continues, politicians and analysts say.

Venezuela’s ambassador to the U_N_ is condemning a recent U_S_ strike on a small boat in Caribbean waters that killed six people, calling it “a new set of extrajudicial executions.”

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro offered the U.S. his country's oil riches. For Secretary of State Marco Rubio, that wasn't enough.

A build-up of military assets in the region and a series of fatal strikes on alleged drug boats enflame relations between Washington and Caracas.

Venezuela said it has captured mercenaries "with direct information" relating to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) as Caracas accused neighboring Trinidad and Tobago of a "military provocation" by carrying out joint drills with the U.S.

VATICAN CITY -- VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV canonized Venezuela’s beloved “doctor of the poor” Sunday before tens of thousands of people, offering the South American nation its first saint and a reason to celebrate amid a yearslong economic crisis and new tensions with the United States.

Tensions between the U.S. and Venezuela are ratcheting up, with a showdown between President Trump and Nicolás Maduro putting the two nations on the brink.

The U.S. has deployed a major Caribbean task force near Venezuela, including the USS Iwo Jima and six destroyers.