At the crossroads of the Americas, Venezuela’s geography and vast mineral reserves amplify its strategic importance

With brash threats aimed all around the region, the president and his team made it clear Venezuela might be just the beginning, sparking fear across the Western hemisphere.

President Donald Trump's intensifying threats toward Venezuela, accompanied by an unprecedented campaign of strikes against suspected drug traffickers at sea, mark the dawn of a new era of U.S. intervention in the Western Hemisphere. But the White House's ...

Less than a week after U.S. forces seized a sanctioned oil tanker off of Venezuela's coast, President Donald Trump announced "a total and complete" blockade of tankers leaving or entering the country. In a Truth Social post Tuesday evening, Trump said that ...

The USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier moved into Latin American waters Tuesday as the US ramped up its military presence in the region while targeting drug traffickers operating out of Venezuela. The Navy’s 4th Fleet did not specify the Ford’s ...

Despite holding the world’s largest oil reserves, Venezuela’s oil industry has been hollowed out by economic collapse under President Nicolás Maduro.

The four-star Navy admiral in command of all U.S. military forces in South and Central America, including the Caribbean Sea, will retire later this year after less than a year on the job. Adm. Alvin Holsey, a Navy pilot who led U.S. Southern Command in the ...