Edmundo González, recognized by the United States as Venezuela’s president-elect, urges the Trump administration not to deal with the Maduro regime on immigration.

The United States and Venezuela have a fraught recent history marked by broken diplomatic relations, sanctions and accusations of criminal activity and coup-plotting.

Venezuela’s regime has distributed weapons to state workers and militias, potentially aiming to expand the country’s civilian army while exposing his waning influence over the colectivos, once the primary political-military force supporting his government.

Under Trump's instructions, the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) conducted raids in South Florida.

The director of WOLA’s Venezuela Program, Laura Dib, joins the podcast to discuss the political, human rights, and diplomatic reality following Nicolás Maduro’s January 10 inauguration. Maduro’s new term begins amid severe tensions,

Venezuela's authoritarian regime said it was willing to work with Washington to take back Venezuelan criminals from the U.S. in a rare show of support for President Trump's plans to designate Latin American drug gangs as terrorist groups.

The Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) arrested dozens of people in Colorado in a raid that targeted a Venezuelan gang. The Rocky Mountain arm of the DEA posted on the social platform X that nearly 50 people were arrested at a “makeshift nightclub” outside of Denver.

The Colombian border village of Tres Bocas has become a ghost town as residents flee to neighboring Venezuela to escape a new wave of violence that has left at least 80 people dead and displaced thousands in Colombia’s Catatumbo region.

Venezuela’s opposition leader Maria Corina Machado called on her supporters to boycott this year’s regional and parliamentary elections, paving the way for the ruling party to consolidate its control in the country.

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday that his administration would likely stop buying oil from Venezuela and was looking "very strongly" at the South American country.

Inhabitants of the Colombian town of Tibu, on the northern border with Venezuela, have fled following a wave of violence that has left at least 80 people dead in clashes between two armed groups in the last week.