In the aftermath of the abduction of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores, Venezuela has agreed to submit a monthly budget to the Trump administration, which will release ...

President Donald Trump delivers remarks at a press conference at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, following the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, Saturday, January 3, 2026. (Official ...

On January 3, 2026, at two o’clock in the morning, the United States declared war on Venezuela by bombing several strategic sectors of the capital and kidnapping the elected president, Nicolás Maduro.

“Weak nations,” the late Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan wrote in 1990, “will hope that strong nations will be law-abiding.” Moynihan was no apologist for weak nations. An avowed Cold Warrior whose ...

When is an oil-motivated invasion of Venezuela even more absurd than it initially appears to be? When you don’t even have any pressing need for the oil that you intend to steal. This is the boat that ...

Four Penn faculty discussed the future of the country, along with how U.S. foreign policy will affect Venezuelan citizens.