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The US has been ramping up pressure on the Venezuelan leader since Trump took office last January.
The US has been ramping up pressure on the Venezuelan leader since Trump took office last January.
President Donald Trump said the U.S. "successfully carried out a large scale strike against Venezuela" and said Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife were "captured.
Trump has openly flirted with the idea of regime change in Venezuela. In late November, Trump gave Maduro an ultimatum to relinquish power, offering him safe passage out of the country.
Understanding the Context
President Donald Trump has said the United States has received more than 80 million barrels of oil from Venezuela, hours after the Pentagon said US forces had captured a third.
Trumps Venezuela gambit has the potential to impact global oil markets, reshape great-power alliances, and undermine norms around sovereignty and intervention.
A: It is hard to know precisely what the Trump Administrations strategy towards Venezuela is, or even if there is a strategy, beyond displaying toughness and projecting power and.
During his 2024 re-election campaign, Trump regularly told his supporters that Venezuela was opening up the prisons and encouraging hardened criminals to flood across.
Key Insights
New details of deliberations show how aides with overlapping agendas drove the United States toward a militarized confrontation with Venezuela.
The Trump administrations seizure of an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela is one of the most dramatic twists yet in a military pressure campaign against Nicols Maduro.
President Donald Trump wants Nicolas Maduro out of power and the only question is how much pressure the United States is prepared to deliver to make it so.
