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53th President of Venezuela (2013-)
Hugo Chávez and his successor Nicolás Maduro oversaw waves of state takeovers and tighter state control over oil and mining assets, notably asserting majority or full state stakes in Orinoco heavy-oil...
There is no credible reporting in the provided sources that President Donald J. Trump was arrested today; the news items instead document arrests of other figures and policy moves by the Trump adminis...
Recent reporting and specialist analyses show Venezuela is primarily implicated as a transit and facilitation hub for cocaine and, to a contested extent, as part of routes for other drugs — while alle...
U.S. law‑enforcement agencies have publicly accused Nicolás Maduro of long‑running involvement with large‑scale cocaine trafficking and narco‑terrorism, including indictments and a U.S. reward offer n...
Hugo Chávez’s mid-2000s reassertion of state control over Venezuela’s oil sector and Nicolás Maduro’s continuation of that policy led to the effective loss or forced reduction of foreign companies’ op...
Venezuela under Hugo Chávez (1999–2013) and Nicolás Maduro (2013–present) expropriated or seized foreign oil assets including major stakes held by US-based ConocoPhillips in Petrozuata, Hamaca and Cor...
United Nations and major rights groups report that Venezuela under President Nicolás Maduro has overseen widespread, systematic repression that independent investigators say may amount to crimes again...
The documents supplied for review contain extensive reporting on foreign arrest warrants, the U.S. capture of Nicolás Maduro and international legal disputes — but they do not contain verified reporti...
U.S. law enforcement and multiple U.S. agencies have formally accused Nicolás Maduro and top Venezuelan officials of directing large-scale drug trafficking and narco‑terrorism, and the U.S. has offere...
The Venezuelan state first nationalized its oil industry in the 1970s — commonly dated to 1976 — an action that shifted control of large foreign (including U.S.) oil operations to the state oil compan...
Yes — Venezuela has nationalized its oil industry in multiple waves and directly expropriated assets operated by U.S. firms, from the wholesale state takeover in the 1970s to targeted seizures under H...
The U.S. government has publicly declared it will treat the Cartel de los Soles — which Washington says is “headed by Nicolás Maduro” — with terrorist-designation tools that let it freeze assets and c...
Hugo Chávez led large, formal nationalizations across oil, banking, steel, cement, fertilizer and large tracts of agricultural and urban land—culminating in state operational control of the Orinoco oi...
Venezuela’s ruling movement is led by the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), a party that calls itself socialist and grew from Hugo Chávez’s Bolivarian Revolution, but Venezuela is not unifor...
There is no credible, publicly available evidence that named U.S. senators accepted cash kickbacks from Nicolás Maduro’s government; the explosive “Venezuela list” claim traces back to social‑media po...
The U.S. Department of Justice has indicted Nicolás Maduro and at least 14 current and former Venezuelan officials on a suite of criminal counts including narco‑terrorism, conspiracy to import cocaine...
International observation of Venezuelan elections since 2018 has been highly contested: some external delegations reported in 2018, while multiple international monitors and democratic institutions la...
Available reporting does not mention any payment or donation from Donald Trump to “venessaila” (term unclear) and does not report Trump giving money to Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro; instead, U.S. ...
U.S. authorities have repeatedly accused Nicolás Maduro and senior Venezuelan officials of running or enabling large-scale drug trafficking—charging Maduro with “narco‑terrorism,” placing bounties up ...
Venezuela is widely described by analysts and governments as a transit state for cocaine rather than a primary producer of fentanyl, and U.S. policy in 2025 centered on lethal maritime strikes and thr...