Tag: Hugo Chavez

Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado and acting Venezuelan President Delcy Rodriguez.

Courage, Strength, and Optimism

Venezuela needs a presidential election in 2027

Walter Molina Galdi · September 12, 2026 6:00 am

Venezuela's interim president, Delcy Rodriguez, accompanied by the president of the National Assembly, Jorge Rodriguez, and the Minister of the Interior, Justice, and Peace, Diosdado Cabello, holds a press conference for national and international media in Caracas, Venezuela, on July 2, 2026. (Photo by Javier Campos/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

The US is helping Chavismo survive without Maduro

Ron MacCammon · August 26, 2026 6:00 am

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez.

Spain is no longer a democracy

Jose Lev Alvarez · June 16, 2026 8:00 am

The Cardon oil refinery.

Energy and Environment

Exxon negotiating deal to pump oil in Venezuela after standoff with leaders

David Zimmermann · May 21, 2026 5:42 pm

President Donald Trump greets Argentine President Javier Milei at the White House.

Winds of change in Latin America

Sean Durns · April 15, 2026 2:21 pm

President Donald Trump.

Beltway Confidential

Trump’s patient Venezuela strategy

Ani Chkhikvadze · February 5, 2026 6:00 am

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, right, poses for photos with Cuba's President Miguel Diaz-Canel before the start of a summit by the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA) at Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, April 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

Cuba is the snakehead of problems in the Western Hemisphere

Mike Gonzalez · January 13, 2026 8:00 am

Nicolas Maduro is seen in handcuffs.

Courage, Strength, and Optimism

Cuba is the big loser in Maduro’s capture

Sean Durns · January 6, 2026 6:00 am

Vehicles drive past the El Palito refinery in Puerto Cabello, Venezuela.

Energy and Environment

Trump claims that Venezuela stole US oil: What to know

Joseph Lawler, Callie Patteson · January 5, 2026 2:48 pm

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro holds a ceremonial sword said to have belonged to independence hero Simon Bolivar during a government-organized civic-military march in Caracas, Venezuela, Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2025.

Beltway Confidential

The road to Venezuela runs through Cuba

Michael Rubin · December 17, 2025 6:00 am

Marco Rubio compares Kamala Harris to Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro

Brady Knox · August 15, 2024 5:53 pm

How Venezuela was destroyed from within

Michael M. Rosen · July 15, 2022 3:00 am