They came without warning—often at night, without warrants or explanations. One moment, a journalist was driving home. A student stood at a border checkpoint. A lawyer met with union leaders. The next ...

A former Venezuelan spymaster who was close to the country's late President Hugo Chávez pleaded guilty Wednesday to drug trafficking charges a week before his trial was set to begin in a Manhattan ...

(CNN) — The US State Department has rejected claims of CIA involvement in an alleged plot to kill Venezuela’s leader Nicolás Maduro, after Venezuelan authorities said they had arrested six ...

MIAMI — A former Green Beret accused of plotting an invasion of Venezuela in 2020 to try to overthrow Nicolás Maduro lashed out Friday at the CIA and FBI, claiming they sabotaged his efforts to ...

Top Venezuelan officials are accusing the United States of plotting to overthrow the government and assassinate President Nicolas Maduro. Venezuelan authorities arrested six people, including ...

The sounds of River Falls gushing with water, the sounds of birds chirping in the sun rise, and the sounds of trees swaying side by side. This place may sound like heaven, but heaven is under ...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the intelligence community is incorrect in its assessment that Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua is not a proxy force of Nicolás Maduro's government.

Gary Berntsen, a former CIA officer in Latin America who oversaw commandos that hunted al-Qaida, ... (12,300 pounds) of cocaine aboard a jet from Venezuela to Mexico in 2006.

Former Venezuela spymaster pleads guilty to narcoterrorism charge ahead of trial Retired Maj. Gen. Hugo Carvajal was extradited from Spain in 2023 after more than a decade on the run from U.S. law ...

In 2011, prosecutors alleged that Carvajal used his office to coordinate the smuggling of approximately 5,600 kilograms (12,300 pounds) of cocaine aboard a jet from Venezuela to Mexico in 2006.