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As U.S. President Donald Trump ups the ante against Venezuela, Canada’s former Ambassador to that country reveals what he learned from his time there.

U.S. President Donald Trump clamped down harder on Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro on Wednesday. Trump announced U.S. forces will blockade any sanctioned oil tankers, critical to the Venezuelan economy. Nathaniel Dove looks at how the measures will affect the regime, the people of Venezuela and where this leads.

U.S. President Donald Trump keeps piling pressure on Venezuela and President Nicolás Maduro. Heidi Petracek looks at the seizure of a Venezuelan oil tanker, what Maduro is accusing the U.S. of, and the confusion over Trump’s endgame for Venezuela.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio held a year-end news conference on Friday and stated that the “single most serious threat to the United States from the Western Hemisphere is from transnational terrorist criminal groups.” Rubio stated that “there’s one (country) that doesn’t cooperate. And it’s the illegitimate regime in Venezuela. Not only do they...

In the early hours of Thursday, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado arrived in Oslo, Norway in defiance of a decade-long travel ban imposed by the Maduro government.

U.S. President Donald Trump announced this week that he will pardon ex-Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernandez, who is currently serving out a 45-year sentence in the U.S. for drugs and weapons charges. Hernandez was convicted under the Biden administration for helping smuggle hundreds of tons of cocaine into the U.S. — allegations he’s denied. Trump’s...

President Donald Trump said Wednesday that the U.S. has seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, calling the tanker “the largest one ever seized.”

U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday reacted to ABC White House Reporter Rachel Scott’s repeated question, calling her “obnoxious” and “terrible.” The exchange occurred when she asked Trump whether he planned on directing Secretary of War Pete Hegseth to release the full video of the U.S. Air Force firing on a suspected drug boat where...

U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said Tuesday he would not release the full video of a strike on an alleged drug boat near Venezuela, despite Democrats calls for it to be released to the public.

U.S. President Donald Trump has doubled down on his threats to order land strikes in Venezuela amid concerns of international drug trafficking. “It’s not only land strikes on Venezuela, it’s land strikes on horrible people that are bringing in drugs and killing our people,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on Friday.

As controversy grows over U.S. military strikes in the Caribbean, key legal issues are coming into focus, including which entity governs the waters where the attacks occurred to whether claims of national self-defence stand up under international law. Military justice expert Franklin Rosenblatt joins Miranda Anthistle to unpack the allegations, including concerns about unlawful orders...

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Thursday that the seizure of a tanker off the coast of Venezuela on Wednesday was done because it’s a “sanctioned shadow vessel known for carrying black market sanctioned oil to the IRGC (Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps).” Leavitt added that “the vessel is currently undergoing a forfeiter process...

After halting immigrant visa applications from 19 countries the day before, U.S. President Donald Trump was asked Wednesday if he had spoken to Nicolás Maduro about his “pressure campaign” against the Venezuelan President, and whether it was “working.” In response, Trump said “we’ll see what happens with that,” adding, “Venezuela sends us drugs… they emptied...

U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday seemingly indicated that U.S. military operations against drug cartels in Venezuela will be shifting from targeting suspected drug boats to efforts on “by land.”

There are increasing indications that the U.S. may be on the verge of launching military action against Venezuela with top military officials visiting the region and an unprecedented deployment of American forces. The Trump administration has labelled the Venezuelan Cartel de los Soles as a “foreign terrorist organization,” a claim that Venezuela’s foreign ministry strongly...

The White House is increasing pressure on South America’s most oil-rich country, utilizing strikes on alleged drug boats as a strategy to undermine the Venezuelan government, along with military drills conducted near its coastline. While the U.S. is gradually moving toward potential conflict, President Donald Trump appears to be extending a diplomatic olive branch to...

The United States has positioned the world’s largest, most advanced aircraft carrier off the coast of Venezuela in its Operation Southern Spear. Fully loaded with troops and military hardware, the picture is that of intimidation. But what’s still unclear is what would happen if President Donald Trump decides to oust the Venezuelan leader. Would a...

Early Saturday morning, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem confirmed on X the U.S. Coast Guard had intercepted an oil tanker that had last docked in Venezuela. This marks the second interception in recent weeks that the United States has gone after a tanker near Venezuela.

U.S. President Donald Trump is ramping up pressure on Venezuela by authorizing the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to conduct covert operations inside the country. Jackson Proskow looks at what Trump is trying to achieve in Venezuela, what it could mean down the road, and what’s still unclear.

As U.S. President Donald Trump ramps up pressure on Venezuela’s government, scrutiny is growing on his administration’s deadly strikes on an alleged Venezuelan drug boat. Jackson Proskow explains what Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth is now saying the strikes.