CARACAS, Venezuela — After seizing Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, the Trump administration is increasing the already substantial pressure on the country’s new president, Delcy Rodríguez, ...

Questioned over the weekend about how or if the U.S. government will take over governing Venezuela following its capture of President Nicolás Maduro on the weekend, Secretary of State Marco Rubio ...

Few words in international politics carry more legal and emotional weight than “blockade.” It evokes warships sealing ports, neutral vessels turned back at gunpoint, belligerents asserting control ...

Chinese oil tankers are pressing ahead with Venezuela-linked voyages despite a U.S. blockade and an escalating campaign of tanker seizures. Two Chinese-flagged VLCCs are operating near Venezuelan ...

Geneva (AFP) – Four United Nations rights experts on Wednesday condemned the US partial naval blockade of Venezuela, determining it illegal armed aggression and calling on the US Congress to intervene ...

Four United Nations human rights experts have condemned the partial naval blockade of Venezuela by the United States, finding it an illegal armed aggression and calling on the US Congress to intervene ...

Rather than heralding an invasion, the blockade is likely a show of force designed to underscore the seriousness of the administration’s pivot to the Western Hemisphere. On December 10, the United ...

Last week, the U.S. seized a sanctioned oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela. Venezuela will continue to trade oil, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said Wednesday, one day after President Donald ...

Oil prices jumped about 3% after Trump's threatened blockade. Oil prices jumped about 3% after President Donald Trump this week threatened to blockade all sanctioned oil tankers traveling in and out ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s “blockade” of sanctioned oil tankers off Venezuela’s coast is raising new questions about the legality of his military campaign in Latin America, while ...

US President Donald Trump’s “blockade” of sanctioned oil tankers off Venezuela’s coast was raising new questions about the legality of his military campaign in Latin America, while fuelling concerns ...

Move comes amid escalating campaign against Maduro as Venezuelan government condemns ‘grotesque threat’ Donald Trump has ordered “a total and complete” blockade of all sanctioned oil tankers entering ...