Nicolás Maduro fades fast as Venezuela’s ruling movement rewrites its future

Just three months ago, Nicolás Maduro embodied the Venezuelan state. Today, he is largely a defendant in a New York courtroom, where he faces charges including narco-terrorism and cocaine

Maduro appears in court as judge weighs whether Venezuela can pay his legal costs in trafficking case

A U.S. judge pressed the Trump administration Thursday about its basis for barring Venezuela’s government from paying former President Nicolás Maduro’s legal fees

Venezuela's acting president pitches reformed oil sector now opened to private capital to Miami summit investors

Venezuela's acting President Delcy Rodríguez is selling investors on a newly opened oil industry and looser U.S. sanctions.

US reopens embassy in Venezuela after seven years

The United States has reopened its embassy in Venezuela's capital Caracas, the US State Department said on Monday, almost three months after US special forces captured the country's former
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The Venezuela Donald Trump “runs” is a land of surreal contrasts

Contrasts abound. Grinning Republican-supporting businessmen in expensive suits stride the hotel lobby enthusing volubly about how “super bullish” they are about Venezuelan commodities. Not far away,

Machado tells US oil giants Venezuela will become beacon of wealth creation after Trump ousted Maduro

María Corina Machado is pitching Venezuela as a top U.S. oil partner after she said the Trump administration’s arrest of former dictator Nicolás Maduro opened up a “new era."

Tanker with Russian oil skips Cuba, docks in Venezuela; 2nd in limbo

A tanker carrying Russian fuel initially headed to Cuba ended up docking in Venezuela after weeks of deviations. A second taker remains at sea.

2 months after his arrest in Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro still has a long road to his criminal trial

While prosecutors press sweeping narco-terror allegations, the Nicolás Maduro proceedings are bogged down in a bitter dispute over legal fees.