During Trump’s first term, the US levelled “maximum pressure” sanctions on Venezuela while recognising opposition figure Juan Guaidó as the country’s legitimate president. That effort failed; Guaidó now lives in Florida.

María Corina Machado, the most prominent figure in the country’s opposition movement, argued the measures are needed to stop government repression.

During the 2024 presidential campaign in Venezuela and the political process building up to it, a team of Venezuelan political and social activists started experimenting with the development of AI-powered chatbots to try to even the highly asymmetrical political playing field of the electoral contest between Edmundo González Urrutia and the authoritarian incumbent,

Opposition leader Maria Corina Machado believes that the cancellation of Chevron's license to operate in Venezuela highlights U.S. President Donald Trump's support for Venezuelans. Machado expressed this view during an interview with Donald Trump Jr.

Venezuelan Opposition leader Maria Corina Machado commended President Donald Trump’s recent decision to impose sanctions on Venezuela’s oil sector by revoki

Conservative lawmakers in Washington have condemned Venezuelan Dictator Nicolas Maduro’s latest threats and repressive tactics against Venezuelan opposition l

The US president cited Venezuela's “electoral conditions” as a reason, adding that the regime hasn’t taken back “violent criminals” at a fast-enough pace.

The conversation at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg Center in Washington, D.C., will also feature democratic opposition leader María Corina Machado, who like González will join virtually, and moderator David Smolansky, an exiled Venezuelan political leader and current SNF Agora dissident in residence, who will be there in person.

In addition, Trump’s administration did what no other president has ever done — punish the regime’s human trafficking of Cuban doctors. The so-called Cuban Medical Brigades have six decades of impunity, labor exploitation, human rights abuses and in some cases cover-up of military operations.

US president Donald Trump on Wednesday said he was "reversing the concessions" given to oil and gas multinational Chevron to operate in Venezuela by his predecessor Joe Biden, accusing President

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — A permit issued by the United States ... On Wednesday, opposition leader Maria Corina Machado in a podcast interview with Trump’s son, Donald Trump Jr., accused Maduro of using the funds for “for repression, persecution ...

After his special envoy's controversial comment that President Trump "doesn't want to do regime change" in Venezuela, Trump reversed course and tightened oil sanctions on that country's brutal dictatorship.