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The short answer: day‑to‑day authority in Caracas is being exercised by Vice‑President Delcy Rodríguez, who was sworn in as acting president after Nicolás Maduro’s capture, but real power remains disp...
The core claim is that the United States has been conducting lethal strikes on boats in the Caribbean and that these actions may violate U.S. or international law; reporting shows multiple recent stri...
U.S. law-enforcement documents and public reporting tie senior Venezuelan officials to networks that allegedly protected, facilitated and profited from large-scale cocaine shipments, with the most det...
U.S. authorities and several major news outlets say the label “Cartel de los Soles” refers to a network of senior Venezuelan military officers and government officials that U.S. officials allege is ti...
The short answer: Venezuela has not been fully "seized" as a unitary, settled possession by the United States, but it has undergone an unprecedented external intervention in which U.S. forces captured...
Nicolás Maduro, long the de facto leader of Venezuela, was captured and flown to the United States in a U.S. military operation on Jan. 3, 2026, according to multiple news reports and U.S. statements ...
A short legal answer: under Venezuela’s constitution the vice president would assume the presidency in the event of an “absolute absence” of the president, which points to Delcy Rodríguez as the immed...
U.S., regional press and investigative outlets report repeated links between members of Venezuela’s armed forces and drug trafficking networks — commonly labeled the “Cartel of the Suns” — but they al...
The 2020 U.S. Department of Justice indictments accused President Nicolás Maduro and 14 current or former Venezuelan officials of running a narcotics-trafficking enterprise — the so‑called “Cartel de ...
Venezuela has publicly responded to the increased U.S. naval presence with large-scale military mobilizations, readiness drills, and appeals to international law — describing the U.S. moves as an “imp...