The United States and Venezuela have a fraught recent history marked by broken diplomatic relations, sanctions and accusations of criminal activity and coup-plotting.

US use of sanctions has ballooned. Yet Venezuela shows the failure both of ‘maximum pressure’ tactics and attempts to leverage sanctions for ambitious goals. A review is urgently needed.

Russia's longest flights are to the tropical beaches of Venezuela, Bali, and Cuba (destinations free from Western sanctions).

WTI crude remains under pressure below $73.50 as sellers dominate. Key support at $72.32; a break could drive prices toward $71.25.

Uncertainty over how Trump administration will shape its policies toward key oil suppliers such as Russia, Iran, Venezuela continues to signal ongoing risk in oil market - Anadolu Ajansı

"Our job—where we can'is to provide Latin America with a choice," a U.K. government minister said on Thursday.

When Marco Rubio arrives in Latin America this weekend on his first foreign trip as Donald Trump's secretary of state, he'll find a region reeling from the new administration's shock-and-awe approach to diplomacy.

"Writing in these pages in November, I noted two points. First, Trump is no stranger to using sanctions and other coercive economic tools. During his first term, Trump leveraged sanctions expansively against Iran,

Donald Trump’s second presidency has come with a surprising, but much-needed twist: making the Western Hemisphere a top foreign policy priority, once again. For over a century, this strategic thinking guided U.

Unsurprisingly, calls have already emerged for a return to the maximum pressure approach of the first Trump term, which imposed harsh economic sanctions on Venezuela. Some voices are even urging the incoming president to go further — Former Colombian President Álvaro Uribe recently called for a military intervention to remove Maduro by force,

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado confirmed on Wednesday that she and Edmundo González, recognized as the elected president by several countries including the United States, had a conversation with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio,

The shade of Theodore Roosevelt is grinning. President Donald Trump has been holding forth about matters of geopolitical import. Some of his remarks reflect his tongue-in-cheek style. Not for nothing has the president earned the title of galactic overlord among trolls.