President Nicolas Maduro looks on during a press conference after testifying before the electoral chamber at main headquarters of the Supreme Court of Justice on Aug. 2, 2024, at the Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas, Venezuela.

The opposition’s 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 message seemed designed to reach Washington as one administration prepares to hand the baton to the next: If the United States keeps messing with Venezuela, then Caracas will retaliate by “liberating” the US territory of Puerto Rico,

The Trump administration will not be renewing the Temporary Protected Status for Venezuelans when it expires in April.

The first thing greeting me as I disembarked from my flight in Caracas was a wanted poster for one Edmundo González Urrutia. The reward was $100,000. Not

Dismantling this regime will require strategic sanctions and diplomatic pressure,' a former Venezuelan intelligence official said.

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.

President Donald Trump has begun his second administration with a series of controversial moves and decisions.

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel condemned President Donald Trump's announcement that 30,000 deported migrants would be housed at the Guantanamo Bay Naval base. Díaz-Canel called the move an "act of brutality" and said the base is "illegally occupied" in Cuba in a post to X on Wednesday.

More than 7.7 million Venezuelans have left their home country since 2013, when its economy unraveled and President Nicolás Maduro took office.

While thousands of Venezuelans face mass deportations and precarious conditions in the United States, extremist opposition leader Maria Corina Machado evades the debate on the structural causes of migration.

In her latest VA column, Jessica Dos Santos takes stock of the hardline opposition's all-or-nothing antics and their consequences.