The Latest Breaking News from Caracas

Venezuela's Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello said that Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, were "kidnapped" during a U.S. military operation earlier this month, and that efforts to reopen diplomatic missions between Caracas and Washington are primarily aimed at ensuring their safety and return.

The tanker departed an eastern Venezuela port shortly after the Jan. 3 military operation in Caracas without authorization from port authorities or Petróleos de Venezuela, the state oil company, which said it was never paid for the half-million barrels of crude onboard.

Venezuelan detainee Diógenes Angulo has been released from prison after a year and five months

Aligning itself with Washington and casually dismissing regional diplomacy has left the dual island nation isolated amid the Venezuela crisis, says Caribbean analyst Kenneth Mohammed

The crackdown has unfolded alongside large, government-led marches in Caracas calling for Maduro's freedom

Trump’s admission that he recognises no constraint outside his own morality was a horrifying moment of truth, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

On January 3, the world watched in disbelief as the Venezuelan president, Nicolás Maduro, was captured by US forces. It was a dramatic geopolitical event that would reverberate not just in Washington and Caracas, but deep into global financial markets.

There is palpable tension: not because anyone trusts the president and the US, but because now there is opportunity for change, says historian Jesús Piñero

Caracas shake-up could intensify violence in Catatumbo in Colombia, an area rich with coca crops, cocaine laboratories and a porous border with Venezuela