1 day ago - The United Nations (UN) and Human ... fled the country due to economic collapse. Maduro has denied all allegations of misconduct and argued that the US has conspired against Venezuela to manufacture a crisis to enact regime change....

January 12, 2026 - It highlighted Maduro’s brutal authoritarianism and theft of the 2024 and 2018 elections and his alleged role as the leader of the Cartel de los Soles, the regime elements complicit in permitting cocaine traffic through Venezuela, a claim from which it backtracked in a revised indictment ...

January 7, 2026 - The events of the past weekend mark a decisive inflection point in Venezuela’s long-running political crisis and in the United States’ approach to coercive diplomacy in the Western Hemisphere following the November release of the U.S. National Security Strategy that proclaims a “Trump Corollary” to the Monroe Doctrine. Following a brilliantly executed plan to capture Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, President Donald Trump’s declaration that the United States would “run” Venezuela (later clarified by Secretary of State Marco Rubio as meaning Washington would run Venezuela policy), signals a deliberate departure from democracy-centered regime change toward a model grounded in extracting economic, security, and geopolitical concessions through military coercion, or gunboat diplomacy. Rather than seeking immediate legitimacy through elections ...

Regime change is what happened in January 2026 in Venezuela, when the US forcibly removed President Nicolás Maduro as the head of state of Venezuela, although the Maduro cabinet largely remained in power.

January 9, 2026 - Triangulated economic lifelines designed to ensure the survival of the Cuban regime and; The unchecked regional symbiosis of organized crime and drug trafficking. In a nutshell, Venezuela became a regional hub and gateway for Russian mercenaries, Chinese companies, Cuban spies, and Iranian agents. Furthermore, the appalling mismanagement of the Venezuelan economy fueled continental waves of illegal migratory flows. In comparison to these consequential matters, the debate about Maduro’s questionable democratic credentials mattered little. However, the Trump White House chose a course of action that departs from the clumsy support provided by the Bush administration for the ill-fated coup attempt launched by Venezuelan dissident generals against Hugo Chávez back in 2002, or the disastrous 2003 Anglo-American invasion of Iraq. Aside from incremental economic pressure and symbolic gestures like the formal recognition of opposition leader Juan Guaidó as legitimate Venezuelan President, the

January 5, 2026 - https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/opinion/trump-venezuela-regime-change.html ... You have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load. ... Jan. 5, 2026 · Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela was taken by helicopter to Manhattan on Monday to face charges.Credit...Ryan Murphy/Reuters ... See more of our coverage in your search results.Encuentra más de nuestra cobertura en los resultados de búsqueda. Add The New York Times on GoogleAgrega The New York Times en Google · Despite early appearances, the Trump administration’s abduction of President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela doesn’t seem to be a regime change operation. After all, America is leaving the regime, now headed by Maduro’s vice president, Delcy Rodríguez, in power. As of Monday, all of Venezuela’s ruling officials aside from Maduro appear to have remained in their posts, including Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino López and Interior Minister Diosdado C

May 29, 2026 - Díaz-Cayeros said, “Nothing has changed in the basic underlying economic conditions of Venezuela that has forced an exodus of 8 million people.” Days after the arrest of Maduro, the government in office is still the same government that came into office through an electoral fraud, he added. We have to remember that all the institutions of power and all the electoral offices in Venezuela below the president are held by supporters of the regime...

March 11, 2026 - January 3, 2026 changed the course of history in Venezuela, and there are different perspectives on whether or not the country is undergoing a transition. Even if it were classified as a transition, labeling it “democratic” at this point does not seem possible. Despite some openings, the structures of the authoritarian government that Nicolás Maduro has led since 2013, consolidated amid a profound democratic decline and breakdown under his predecessor, Hugo Chávez, remain in place.

1 month ago - The Maduro regime refers to the period in Venezuelan history from 2013 to 2026, when Venezuela was ruled by Nicolás Maduro's authoritarian regime. The period began with Maduro's assumption of the presidency on 14 April 2013, and formally came to an end with the U.S.

January 3, 2026 - The democratic opposition placed observers in every polling place around the country, and made careful copies of the actual vote tabulations. These demonstrated that González won the election by over 30 percentage points; the regime nonetheless declared Maduro the winner and began to systematically jail leaders of the opposition still in the country.

January 6, 2026 - “Regime change” is hardly a phrase associated with Trump, but the goals he has stated in Venezuela require it. The Maduro regime depends on illicit activities to remain in power, and U.S. descriptions of Maduro as a criminal are accurate.

May 18, 2026 - After years of increasingly despotic rule, which deepened after Maduro was accused of stealing the 2024 presidential election, an incipient political thaw has descended. Murals of Maduro have been painted over, his portraits quietly removed ...

May 8, 2026 - Maduro replaced Chávez as president after his death in 2013. And from there, his administration oversaw one of the most severe economic declines in modern history while simultaneously dismantling democratic checks and balances.

Even Hugo Chávez, Venezuela’s ... Maduro, who assumed the presidency after Chávez’ death in 2013, leads a blatantly authoritarian regime, desperate to retain power....

January 11, 2026 - Unlike Panama’s Manuel Noriega, ... in 1989, Maduro originally came to power through constitutional succession before consolidating his authority through a series of widely condemned elections in 2018 and in 2024....

January 4, 2026 - Trump stated “we're going to run it,” about Venezuela, but the administration stayed away from using the term “regime change.”

January 8, 2026 - Most Venezuelans have celebrated Maduro’s removal, but onlookers worldwide have had mixed reactions about the U.S. operation that led to his capture. The prospect for regime change, however, is bleak, experts said.