Tag: Nicolas Maduro

Units of El Palito refinery.

Energy and Environment

Oil industry winners from Maduro capture

Callie Patteson, Joseph Lawler · January 5, 2026 5:16 pm

Left picture: Nicolas Maduro is seen in handcuffs after landing at a Manhattan helipad, escorted by heavily armed Federal agents as they make their way into an armored car en route to a Federal courthouse in Manhattan on January 5, 2026 in New York City. (Photo by XNY/Star Max/GC Images)

Trump heavyweights descend on Capitol Hill: Burning questions from lawmakers on Venezuela

Lauren Green · January 5, 2026 4:34 pm

Edmundo González and Mariana Corina Machado speak to supporters in Venezuela

Europe pushes Venezuelan opposition to lead as Trump seeks to puppet Maduro’s vice president

Timothy Nerozzi · January 5, 2026 3:54 pm

In this photo released by the White House, President Donald Trump monitors U.S. military operations in Venezuela, with CIA Director John Ratcliffe, left, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller.

Beltway Confidential

Ignore everything Trump says about Venezuela

Timothy P. Carney · January 5, 2026 3:27 pm

President Donald Trump listens as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks at Mar-a-Lago club, Saturday, Jan. 3, 2026, in Palm Beach, Fla.

Trump signals he could take action on Cuba, Colombia, and other countries after Venezuela

Mabinty Quarshie · January 5, 2026 3:17 pm

Russian ambassador to the United Nations Vasily Nebenzya.

Russian UN ambassador rips Maduro capture as ‘cynically perpetrated’ crime

Molly Parks · January 5, 2026 3:08 pm

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

Former Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro.

Beltway Confidential

The real ‘international law’ has always been that might makes right

Zachary Faria · January 5, 2026 1:50 pm

Courtroom sketch for former Venezuelan president Nicolas Madura.

Seven things to know about the criminal case against Maduro and his wife

Kaelan Deese · January 5, 2026 1:32 pm

An armored vehicle carrying Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores arrives at Manhattan Federal Court, Monday, Jan. 5, 2026, in New York. (AP Photo/Stefan Jeremiah)

Maduro pleads not guilty in New York on drug charges: ‘I am a decent man’

Mike Brest · January 5, 2026 12:40 pm

America/Venezuela.

Byron York says Venezuela operation was ‘in line with the previous presidents’

Jenny Goldsberry · January 5, 2026 10:54 am

Trump and Rubio.

Venezuela: It all depends on the meaning of the word ‘run’

Byron York · January 5, 2026 12:37 am