Delcy Rodriguez, who is next in the presidential line of succession, served as Nicolas Maduro's vice president since 2018.

Venezuela's military accused U.S. forces of killing members of President Nicolás Maduro's security detail "in cold blood" before seizing the embattled leader and his wife in a pre-dawn raid in Caracas on Saturday.

Operation Absolute Resolve,’ which captured Nicolás Maduro, was led by one of the Pentagon’s most secretive and elite units.

In his first remarks after the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, the country’s prominent opposition leader Edmundo González sought the Venezuelan military’s support to become the new president of the Latin American nation.

President Donald Trump had long threatened that he could order military strikes on targets on Venezuelan territory after months of attacks on boats accused of carrying drugs from the South American co

On Saturday, the U.S. conducted a “large-scale strike” against Venezuela. Before the escalation, there had been 35 known strikes against alleged drug smuggling boats in South American waters since early September that killed at least 115 people,

President Trump claimed overnight that the United States carried out airstrikes in Venezuela and captured President Nicolás Maduro.

U.S. military strikes in Venezuela over the weekend have triggered sharp backlash from Democratic lawmakers and concern among immigrant communities, even as some Republicans praised the operation.

By Patricia Marins in Rio de Janeiro First, we need to understand the military capabilities of Venezuela. This country possessed CASIC HK-JM2 radar systems with a range of 500 km and JYL-1 3D radars with a range of 320 km,