Diosdado Cabello

Widespread destruction and structural collapse followed the country after it was struck by 7.2 and 7.5 magnitude earthquakes mere seconds apart on June 24

The plane carrying 146 Venezuelans deported from the United States arrived at Venezuela’s main airport last Wednesday — just eight hours before the ground began to violently shake

When the U.S. seized Venezuela’s autocratic president in a raid in January and demanded allegiance from his successor, President Trump was probably imagining all the upsides of turning Venezuela into a protectorate — control over the country’s oil, for instance, and the chance to rid the territory of rivals like China

More than 1,600 foreign rescuers are helping search for quake survivors

The rapid mobilization Thursday comes after back-to-back magnitude 7.2 and 7.5 earthquakes rocked northern Venezuela roughly 120 miles west of Caracas Wednesday night

This resumption of air travel follows the dramatic U.S capture of Nicolás Maduro during a nighttime raid on his Caracas residence in early January

But he was rearrested hours later following his participation in demonstrations outside detention centers

The government had released several prominent opposition members from prison Sunday after lengthy politically motivated detentions

An amnesty law that would provide clemency to political prisoners in Venezuela has passed an initial vote unanimously in the National Assembly, stirring hopes among the country’s opposition

Venezuela's powerful interior minister, Diosdado Cabello, pledged loyalty on behalf of police forces

That sense of safety collapsed on Friday, when García was jailed, not by Venezuelan security forces, but by US immigration authorities

Now, after the tables turned dramatically and Maduro finds himself locked up in the US, the families have returned to demand the immediate release of every last one of their country’s political prisoners

Some politicians in Washington have questioned why the US did not grab Diosdado Cabello during its operation to seize Maduro

Since United States armed forces abducted Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on January 3, Machado has maintained a steady public presence

At her first press conference since Maduro's dramatic capture by US forces on January 3, Rodriguez cast herself as a unifier

Rodríguez announced her return to X with a message calling for unity and stability

Almost immediately after U.S. forces deposed Venezuela’s president, officials from Washington to Lima, Peru, began encouraging some of the 8 million Venezuelans who have scattered themselves across the Americas over more than a decade to go home

Sánchez had already offered to mediate between Caracas and Washington in the wake of Saturday’s dramatic military action and his government asked to participate in the UN Security Council meeting on Monday

Ivan Colmenares Garcia had all the correct permits for his routine entry into Venezuela when the Colombian lawyer was forcibly stripped, bound, blindfolded and jailed

Among the thousands of supporters of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro who joined a public protest in Caracas against his weekend abduction by United States soldiers, one man stood out

Diosdado Cabello, who controls security forces accused of widespread human rights abuses, is one of ​a handful of Maduro loyalists

Diosdado Cabello, who controls security forces accused of widespread human rights abuses, is one of ​a handful of Maduro loyalists

The reported demands signal intensifying US pressure on Venezuela over its energy sector and geopolitical alignments

For European leaders, it has exposed an uncomfortable dilemma: how to welcome the removal of an authoritarian ruler without endorsing an action that many legal experts say tramples over international law

The reported demands signal intensifying US pressure on Venezuela over its energy sector and geopolitical alignments

Recently, the US launched a military strike against Venezuela and forcibly seized Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife

Protesters gathered Monday in London to condemn U.S. military action against Venezuela as a breach of international law

Rodriguez was sworn in as the interim head on Monday after a US military operation led to the capture of President Nicolas Maduro and his wife, who face federal narco-terrorism charges in New York

The Trump administration justified its actions alleging drug-related criminal charges, an illegitimate election and stressing the U.S. interest in the country’s oil supply

With his lightning raid to snatch Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro, U.S. President Donald Trump has shown that President Vladimir Putin’s self-proclaimed “multipolar” world of anti-Western dictatorial alliances from Caracas to Tehran is essentially toothless

Donald Trump has issued a series of threats against multiple countries after American troops captured Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro

Musk reposted a statement from Starlink’s account on the social platform X, which Musk owns, announcing the policy shift

His removal is seen as the most assertive US intervention to achieve regime change since the 2003 invasion of Iraq, and followed months of pressure from Washington

The president also relied even more heavily on Cuban counterintelligence and bodyguards, more trusted than Venezuelans, with the latter not allowed to use mobile phones