In January 2026, after U.S. forces captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, during an overnight mission in Caracas that reportedly left dozens of Venezuelan and Cuban ...

Brad W. Setser is the Whitney Shepardson senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. In the days since U.S. President Donald Trump’s operation to capture Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, ...

President Donald Trump says US companies will now have access to Venezuela’s vast oil reserves. But the country’s other commodities have also caught his administration’s attention. Venezuela has ...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Wednesday that a plan to seize and sell up to 50 million barrels of Venezuelan oil is designed to give the Trump Administration “tremendous leverage” to stabilize ...

CARACAS, Venezuela — President Donald Trump said Tuesday that Venezuela would be providing 30 million to 50 million barrels of oil to the U.S., and he pledged to use proceeds from the sale of this oil ...

The secretary of state helped steer President Trump to attacking Venezuela and seizing Nicolás Maduro, and now aims to force the country to give U.S. companies access to its oil. A poor outcome in ...

BOGOTÁ, Colombia — Venezuela's political opposition remains largely muzzled and shut out of power. Although authoritarian leader Nicolás Maduro was seized by U.S. forces in Caracas over the weekend, ...

The CEOs ExxonMobil and ConocoPhillips told President Donald Trump that Venezuela will need big changes to attract investment. Exxon CEO Darren Woods said Venezuela is "uninvestable" in the country's ...