Venezuelan government officials have floated a plan in which President Nicolás Maduro would eventually leave office, a bid aimed at easing mounting U.S. pressure on the government in Caracas, according to a former Trump administration official.

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, who was awarded the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize last week, has called for greater US support to stop what she described as a “war” on her country by President Nicolás Maduro.

A group of senior Venezuelan government officials, led by Vice President Delcy Rodríguez and her brother Jorge, who is president of the National Assembly, have quietly promoted a series of initiatives in recent months aimed at presenting themselves to Washington as a “more acceptable” alternative to Nicolás Maduro’s regime,

Elite U.S. Army ‘Night Stalkers’ have been deployed in the Caribbean near Venezuela, with Black Hawk and ‘Little Bird’ helicopters spotted training in Trinidad, signaling increased readiness for potential action against drug cartels or Venezuela’s regime.

In a new interview with NBC Nightly News Saturday anchor José Díaz-Balart, Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado criticized leader Nicolas Maduro’s regime and praised President Trump as the Pentagon raises military pressure in the region.

Church bells rang out and fireworks burst in the sky Sunday as Venezuela -- mired in crisis -- welcomed the canonization of two of its people as saints.Outside the Church of Our Lady of Candelaria in Caracas,

As President Donald Trump weighs military action inside Venezuela, building up forces in the Caribbean and flying B-52 bombers off the country’s coast this week, Nicolás Maduro is responding in kind,

As of Friday, it appears very possible that the US military could take military action against alleged cartel targets in Venezuela within the coming days. These could include drug labs, airstrips used for cocaine shipments, or camps of the armed groups backed by the regime.