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MIAMI — Marco Rubio and David Rivera charted a rise in this city’s famously scrappy politics together. Both sons of Cuban immigrants, they befriended each other as campaign volunteers in the 1990s and climbed the ranks of local politics side-by-side. As young state legislators, they bought a house together near…

This courtroom sketch shows deposed president of Venezuela Nicolas Maduro, foreground, and his wife, Cilia Flores, seated, attending their arraignment in New York in January where they pleaded not guilty to charges of narco-terrorism. Photo by Jane RosenbergAFP/File Article content NEW YORK — Alvin Hellerstein, the U.S. judge overseeing the…

US President Trump, who cut off oil supplies to Cuba after abducting Venezuela’s President Maduro, has threatened to take over the island-nation. The Cuban government has said it is prepared for any potential United States attacks as the island-nation begins to recover from yet another blackout under a punishing oil…

CARACAS, Venezuela — For Vanessa Farina, hope had become dangerous. For more than a year, she had measured out her life by the number of days her husband, the human rights activist and politician Luis Tarbay, spent in Venezuela’s most notorious prison. Now, with President Nicolás Maduro in U.S. custody…

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Since the U.S. ousted Venezuela’s president, Nicolás Maduro, earlier this year, officials in Caracas have been looking for ways to increase oil production, including by attracting foreign private investment. In February, U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright visited facilities operated by Chevron and met with interim government officials...Read More

RNS) — Some evangelicals’ cooling relationship with Chavismo stems from a 2024 meeting where Maduro favored the pastors of the largest megachurches...Read More

The American flag was raised Saturday over the US Embassy in Venezuela for the first time since 2019, a move that highlighted the recent shift in relations between the two countries since then-President Nicolas Maduro was captured by American troops in January. Though the flag is now waving, the building…

Listen to this article with a free account The Trump administration on Friday opposed a request by former Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, to dismiss their U.S. criminal case. Maduro and Flores asked the court last month to dismiss the case, arguing the government improperly prevented…