The Latest Breaking News from Caracas

From 1999 onwards, successive governments pursued a strategy linking foreign policy, state financing and the management of the country's main industry. The result was a network of bilateral alliances that channelled much of Venezuela's crude outside conventional buying and selling circuits.

Venezuela's advanced air defense systems bought from Russia were not connected to the radar when U.S. forces descended in Caracas to capture authoritarian President Nicolas Maduro, according to a new report.

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

Opposition leader María Corina Machado hails move to tackle ‘injustice’ as Spain’s foreign ministry confirms release of five Spanish nationals

Trump says "a certain expertise that we have" was used to turn off the lights in Caracas.