Venezuela

After the attack in Venezuela, its neighbor state reckons with U.S. aggression.

The Secretary of State is often described as the architect of U.S. policy toward Venezuela. How much control he actually exercises remains uncertain.

The historian Daniel Immerwahr says that Trump’s embrace of imperialist adventuring is not just about business interests—it’s an appeal to masculinity which “seems to sell.”

“What you’re seeing both abroad and at home are completely optional conflicts created by the character of the President,” Jane Mayer says.

There’s no Trump Doctrine, just a map of the world that the President wants to write his name on in big gold letters.

After his assault on Venezuela, the President is turning his attention to the rest of the Western Hemisphere.

Trump’s thirst for Venezuela.

A onetime adviser to Marco Rubio and Mitt Romney argues that the U.S. has been “too cautious” in its use of force since the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Jésus Armas, a prominent opposition leader, has been in prison in Caracas for the past year. With the country in turmoil, his mother worries about his fate.

Was the Vice-President’s exclusion from the operation in Venezuela an expression of his anti-interventionist ideology—or a political calculation?

By forcibly bringing the ousted President and his wife into jurisdiction of U.S. federal courts, Trump will now have to accept that at least two Venezuelans deserve the basic right to due process.

The President says the United States will “run” Venezuela. What that entails—and how far Trump will go in the country and in the broader region—remains unclear.

A political scientist explains how the Venezuelan President ran the country, why he was so unpopular, and, after his seizure by the Trump Administration, who might take over.

The country’s interim leader, Delcy Rodríguez, is in the awkward position of having to appease two hard-line, opposing audiences: the Trump Administration and what remains of the Venezuelan regime.

The President has made clear he wants to exploit Venezuela’s vast oil reserves; history suggests that it won’t be easy.

A scholar of international law on the implications of the U.S. arrest of President Nicolás Maduro.

What comes after Nicolás Maduro’s ouster in Venezuela?

The former C.I.A. director and Secretary of Defense explains the problem with using the military for law enforcement.

The outcry grows over Trump’s undeclared war in the Caribbean.

As Trump escalates his confrontation with Venezuela, questions mount about the line between counter-narcotics policy and a bid for regional dominance.