8 hours ago - Maduro promoted a consultative referendum in Venezuela to support Venezuela's claim to the Essequibo region, which is disputed with, and controlled by, neighboring Guyana. The referendum took place on 3 December 2023, and a large majority (nearly 100%) voted in favour of Venezuela's claims, ...

April 20, 2026 - The winners of Ms. Rodríguez’s economic restructuring include Venezuela’s traditional economic elites, who once sided with the opposition but made peace with chavismo. Their bet on stability over democracy has given them access to foreign markets and the U.S. banking system. Western investors are other beneficiaries. They have recently been descending on Caracas’s luxury hotels searching for bargain assets in the oil, mining and tourism industries. Only one senior minister in Mr. Maduro’s government remains in his post: Diosdado Cabello, the interior minister who oversaw the governing party’s repression apparatus. Mr. Cabello is wanted by the United States on drug-trafficking charges and had clashed with Ms. Rodríguez in the past. But his connections to armed pro-government groups have also made him a valuable ally — and a risky target.

December 1, 2020 - The United States is working with a global coalition of countries in support of the Venezuelan people as they fight to restore democracy and rebuild the economy in their country, which currently suffers under the repressive and corrupt misrule of the dictator Nicolas Maduro and his illegitimate regime. We recognize and support interim President Juan Guaido and the National Assembly, which is the sole remaining legitimate and democratic institution in the country. Meanwhile, Maduro and his inner circle dismantle Venezuelan democracy piece by piece, as they plunder the country’s natural resources to enrich themselves.

2 weeks ago - It’s a slogan that’s long encapsulated the unique ability of Hugo Chávez’s fiercely nationalistic revolution to stay in power in Venezuela for 27 years: “United, we will win!” · The young, the old, ruling party leaders and propagandists alike shout it at official events, street demonstrations and on state television, pumping their fists to show loyalty to the self-described socialist government — and its traditional antipathy toward the United States. Even when confronted with overwhelming truths that defy such bravado, the diverse coalition of military, ideological and opportunistic hangers-on has acted in lockstep. But cracks in that unity have emerged after the stunning U.S. military operation that captured then- President Nicolás Maduro in January. Longtime loyalists are airing disagreements with the government of acting President Delcy Rodríguez and even discussing publicly rumors that an insider’s betrayal helped the U.S.

2 weeks ago - The Venezuelan presidential crisis was a political crisis concerning the leadership and legitimacy of the president of Venezuela between 2019 and 2023, with the nation and the world divided in support for Nicolás Maduro or Juan Guaidó. Venezuela is engulfed in a political and economic crisis ...

April 18, 2026 - The two had been under house arrest for their alleged connection to antigovernment protests in 2014, but the Maduro-backed Supreme Court ordered their rearrest, spurring a fresh wave of international condemnation. Originally scheduled for December 2016 but postponed by the election commission, gubernatorial elections were held in Venezuela’s 23 states in mid-October 2017. Preelection preference polling had indicated that the opposition was poised to gain control of a majority of the states for the first time in some two decades.

2 weeks ago - Maduro’s request was granted in November 2013, allowing him to make unfettered macroeconomic decisions, including decisions on price controls, trade laws, and exports, for a period of twelve months. According to Maduro, his leadership of the economy required a special dispensation from the National Assembly because opposition political leaders and foreign powers were colluding to take down the Venezuelan government.

January 4, 2026 - The group added that the Maduro regime’s “ties to drug cartels fueled deadly drugs and violent crime in American communities.” · Trump told Fox News on Saturday morning that the U.S. military operations in Venezuela are “saving lives because the drug trafficking is so bad” and have “gotten so out of control.” ... Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass criticized the Trump administration on Saturday evening, calling the U.S. special operations mission that captured Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro and his wife a “reckless decision.” · “The Administration’s reckless decision to strike Venezuela to remove Nicolás Maduro risks chaos, violence, and entrenching the United States in a conflict that the American people did not ask for,” Bass, a Democrat, wrote on X. She added, “Los Angeles will continue to stand for peace, democracy, and diplomacy.” ·

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January 6, 2026 - State TV is still running regime propaganda, Vice President (soon, one surmises, to shed the “vice”) Delcy Rodríguez is still fulminating on behalf of the Venezuelan government, the hardline interior minister Diosdado Cabello is still giving fire-breathing speeches condemning American aggression, Maduro’s notoriously repressive attorney general, Tarek William Saab, is still out mining the night’s events for propaganda points. The entire ghastly apparatus of state repression that Hugo Chávez built and Nicolás Maduro perfected appears, for now, to be fully in control of the country.

April 3, 2026 - But it is unlikely that all of them would. And if the military were to split into competing factions or if a post-Maduro administration were to dissolve the army and dismiss civilian officials, the chances of violent chaos would increase further. A Machado-González government without sufficient military backing, domestic or foreign, would be unlikely to be able to fend off a campaign of violent harassment by armed groups seeking to destabilize it. The Venezuelan opposition’s biggest gains in the quarter century since Hugo Chávez, Maduro’s mentor and predecessor, became president in 1999 have been achieved through negotiation and at the ballot box, not violence.

The collapsing, criminal dictatorship that presides over Venezuela is a threat to American interests and to the entire Western Hemisphere. After four years of appeasement under President Biden, President Trump is sending a clear and necessary message to the Maduro regime that its days of acting with impunity are over. First under Hugo Chavez and now under Nicolas Maduro, Venezuela has gone from the second wealthiest country in Latin America to a sinkhole of poverty, corruption, and narco terrorism. Over the past 20 years, the country’s democratic institutions have been systematically destroyed; the regime has sided with American adversaries, including China and Iran, to undermine our core interests; and has become a narco state that brings deadly drugs into our country and fuels global transnational crime. Take action with us. Add your name to the petition: Restore America’s National Security.

Venezuela's ”Lord of Misrule,” whose corrupt and oppressive reign is so rife with mismanagement that citizens of his oil-rich nation are literally starving and begging for medicine. ... A panel of eight journalists, scholars and activists expert in fighting corruption chose Maduro for the global award on the strength of his corrupt and oppressive reign, so rife with mismanagement that citizens of his oil-rich nation are literally starving and begging for medicines.

January 3, 2026 - Maduro’s government has for years suppressed and censored journalists in Venezuela and helped control state-media broadcasts. As Mr. Maduro drove, he also reminisced about his travels in the United States.

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April 3, 2026 - In July 2016, Maduro signed a series of agreements with Igor Sechin, the CEO of Rosneft, to expand oil production and cooperation. EDERICO PARRA/AFP via Getty Images · Rosneft later became the primary vehicle through which PDVSA could circumvent U.S. sanctions. In 2019, Rosneft handled over a third of Venezuelan crude, bringing it to markets such as India and China at deeply discounted rates. When Rosneft itself was sanctioned in February and March of 2020, it transferred its Venezuela operations to a separate Russian state-owned entity. The Russian government now controls multiple oil fields and holds a lien on 49.9 precent of PDVSA’s U.S.-based subsidiary, Citgo. Venezuela and Russia have also maintained a strong military partnership. Along with other members of the ALBA alliance, Chávez offered to let Russia use a Venezuelan military base in La Orchila, an island in the Caribbean.

July 24, 2024 - Ms Machado has since become Mr Maduro's most formidable opponent, managing what had eluded others before her - to unite the notoriously divided Venezuelan opposition behind one leader. During his 11 years in power, Mr Maduro has managed to run rings around the opposition time and time again, aided by the fact that opposition leaders often seemed to spend more time attacking each other than concentrating on beating him.

2 weeks ago - Experts convened by CDDRL's Democracy Action Lab discussed the challenges facing Venezuela after Nicolás Maduro’s removal, including the possibility of democratic transition, authoritarian rebalancing, or political instability.

May 7, 2026 - The mandate of the UN Fact-Finding Mission on Venezuela was renewed. The presidential election in July was fraught with controversy. Opposition parties to the government of Nicolás Maduro faced numerous obstacles to participating in the election, including obstructed registration, arbitrary detention of their members and torture.