The United States military has captured a seventh oil tanker linked to Venezuela as part of the Trump administration’s escalating efforts to tighten control over the country’s oil exports and enforce a naval quarantine of sanctioned vessels, military officials said.

On Jan. 3, 2026, the United States of America successfully completed Operation Absolute Resolve, captured Venezuela’s longtime dictator, Nicolás Maduro,

In the early morning of Jan. 3, United States military forces arrived in Caracas, Venezuela, and struck numerous military targets, capturing President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores. The couple has since been taken to the United States for alleged charges of narco-terrorism and drug trafficking.

ON JANUARY 3RD, hours after explosions were heard in Caracas, the capital of Venezuela, Donald Trump made a bombshell announcement. The United States had captured Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela’s dictator, and flown him and his wife out of the country.

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Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) said Sunday the United States is in an “ongoing war” with Venezuela. “That is an act of war. It’s an ongoing war, to continue to take their oil; ongoing war to distribute

President Trump has set his sights on Venezuelan oil, but there are many economic and political obstacles to significantly ramping up the country’s oil production.

The Trump administration has consistently denounced this international order. We are not going to like what replaces it.

A lot of questions remain to be answered following the unprecedented US attack in Venezuela and everything that has happened since. For Venezuelans, both inside the country and abroad, it’s been a mix of emotions and a sense of uncertainty over what comes next.

A day after she gave President Donald Trump her Nobel Peace Prize medal, Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado insisted that her country was on an irreversible path toward democracy, even as Trump has spoken far more frequently in recent days about securing Venezuelan oil than bringing about free elections.