Nicolas Maduro

COMMENTARY Biden has little choice but to exclude Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua from the Americas Summit. Nor can he welcome U.S. democracy-defilers.

COMMENTARY Florida politicos are so conditioned to win votes by calling for U.S. military intervention in Latin America that they disregard its dangers in Ukraine.

COMMENTARY: If Trump dealt with Kim, then Biden can deal with Maduro — as long as Biden treats Venezuela's dictator tougher than Trump treated North Korea's.

A high-level delegation traveled to the South American country last weekend to in part discuss the health of detained U.S. citizens.

The U.S. could relax sanctions on Venezuelan oil to make up for its new embargo on Russian crude — but can it get reform from Venezuela's regime in return?

COMMENTARY: Disney movies helped turn Latin Americans away from Hitler. Darker versions of those flicks could turn them, and Americans, against Putin.

The accused mastermind behind laundering potentially hundreds of millions of dollars for the Venezuelan government has been exposed as a longtime informant for the U.S. government.

COMMENTARY Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua have secured the support of powerful kindred allies. To confront them, the U.S. should do more of that too.

COMMENTARY: The Latin left's bromance with an Iranian accused of bombing a Jewish center helps U.S. conservatives' efforts to paint liberals as anti-Semitic.

After a decade of harrowing economic contraction and hyperinflation — and after ending a raft of disastrous polices — Venezuela likely saw growth last year.

Venezuelan opponents and U.S. officials were predicting his demise years ago. But Nicolás Maduro and his Socialist Party remain firmly in power.

COMMENTARY On the eve of the Summit for Democracy, calling leaders like Nicolás Maduro "president" feels like complicity in their dark charade.