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The authorization is the latest step in the Trump administration’s intensifying pressure campaign against Venezuela. For weeks, the U.S. military has been targeting boats off the Venezuelan coast it says are transporting drugs, killing 27 people.

The two men were among an exodus of political opposition and civil society leaders to flee Venezuela after Maduro was widely accused of stealing last year's election and the government detained more than 2,000 people.

The president has ordered the Pentagon to use the armed forces to carry out what in the past was considered law enforcement.

The global watchdog Human Rights Watch has issued a scathing new report on the Venezuelan regime’s repression following the presidential election it stole last summer.

Despite the many unknowns about its true size or sophistication in the United States, Tren de Aragua has emerged as a real source of concern for law enforcement in the last couple of years.

A federal judge barred the Trump administration Saturday from carrying out deportations under a sweeping 18th century law that the president invoked hours earlier to speed removal of Venezuelan gang members from the United States.

A grand jury in Washington has returned an indictment against former Congressman David Rivera for failing to register as a foreign agent of a sanctioned Venezuelan media tycoon on whose behalf the Miami Republican allegedly lobbied the Trump administration.

The top United Nations human rights watchdog has ordered Venezuela to avoid destroying tally sheets as it opens an investigation into allegations that President Nicolás Maduro stole this summer’s election.

Venezuela President Nicolás Maduro’s regime is growing “more fierce” in protecting its power and the decade-long exodus of Venezuelans leaving the country will likely intensify following upcoming July 28 elections, says Beatriz Olavarria, a longtime Venezuelan exile activist in South Florida.

The Biden administration has reimposed crushing oil sanctions on Venezuela in a rebuke to President Nicolas Maduro’s attempts to consolidate his rule just six months after the U.S. eased restrictions in a bid to support now fading hopes for a democratic opening in the OPEC nation.

A generation of children in Venezuela have only known a country in crisis, plagued over the last decade or more by shortages, inflation and desperation.

Venezuela's opposition leader — recognized by the the U.S. and much of the world as the country's leader — will only attend the Summit of the Americas virtually.