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La Guaira Is Unrecognizable After Venezuela’s Deadly Earthquakes

By: Emma Bubola and Fabiola Ferrero —
More than a month after the earthquakes, the coastal region of La Guaira — once Venezuela’s main gateway — is completely unrecognizable.
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Fact-Checking Trump’s Claims About the Effect of the Iran War on Oil Prices, Munitions and More

By: Linda Qiu —
The president misleadingly blamed the Biden administration’s weapons transfers to Ukraine for current concerns over munitions stockpiles, among other claims about the Iran war.

President Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth attending a dignified transfer last month for Army soldiers killed while deployed to Jordan last month.

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Is Venezuela a Colony Now? A Sovereign State? Modern Empires Rule in Ambiguity.

By: Linda Kinstler —
Occupation is a hassle. Large countries have many new ways to control small ones.
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Venezuela Earthquakes Force a Grim Homecoming for Migrants

By: Emma Bubola and Adriana Loureiro Fernandez —
Mass migration, which defines modern Venezuela, has heavily marked the earthquake, too, saving many who had left, but also making their grief harder.

Liliana Figueroa, who had migrated to Brazil, returned to Venezuela after her daughter, Angelina, was killed in the earthquake.

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How Marco Rubio Is Running Venezuela From Afar

By: Tyler Pager and Anatoly Kurmanaev —
The secretary of state effectively controls Venezuela’s finances, the distribution of its natural resources and its government. His grip on the country is a vivid manifestation of American power in the Trump era.

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Actually, Democracy Dies in H.R.

By: Amanda Taub —
New research sheds light on how mediocre employees help would-be authoritarians maintain power.

Argentine security forces seizing a young man in 1982 in Buenos Aires during the Dirty War.

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Trump’s Latest Oil Blockade Brings Bigger Economic Risks

By: Rebecca F. Elliott —
Oil markets shrugged it off, but the effort to hurt Iran could provoke retaliation that inflicts more damage on energy assets and the global economy.

A strike on the Bapco oil refinery in Bahrain in early March. A U.S. blockade of the Strait of Hormuz may give Iran a reason to restart attacks on energy assets throughout the Persian Gulf.

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Trump Is Racing to Redefine ‘America First’ in a Time of War

By: Anton Troianovski —
Washington has been debating the thrust of Mr. Trump’s foreign policy for more than a decade, with the only consensus being that “America First” means whatever the president says it does.

President Trump holding a “Make America Great Again” hat on his way to his golf club in Miami last year.

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After President’s Capture, U.S. and Venezuela Explore Restoring Diplomatic Ties

By: Annie Correal —
The move embodied the contradictions and fast-changing nature of the two countries’ relationship.

The United States Embassy in Caracas, Venezuela, in 2019.

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Trump Urges Oil Companies to Speed Work in Venezuela

By: Rebecca F. Elliott， Emiliano Rodríguez Mega， Eric Schmitt and Michael Levenson —
The president met with executives on a day when the U.S. seized another tanker carrying Venezuelan oil.

President Trump and members of his cabinet at a meeting with oil executives at the White House on Friday.

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Outside Prisons in Caracas, Venezuelans Anxiously Await Release of More Political Detainees

By: The New York Times —
Venezuela’s interim government said it would release an “important number” of imprisoned people, but only nine have been confirmed freed.

Family members awaiting the release of prisoners outside El Helicoide, a notorious prison in the center of Caracas, the Venezuelan capital, on Thursday.

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Trump Threatens to Take Greenland ‘the Hard Way’

By: Chris Cameron —
The president continued to advance an imperialist vision of American foreign policy, where the U.S. can dominate neighboring countries “whether they like it or not.”

President Trump and members of his cabinet at the meeting with oil executives at the White House on Friday.

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GOP Seeks Some Distance From Trump as Midterm Election Year Opens

By: Carl Hulse —
The vote to open a war powers debate, a pair of attempted veto overrides and a split on health care suggested a greater appetite among Republicans to challenge the president.

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This Is Trump’s One Small Trick to Destroy American Democracy

By: Lydia Polgreen —
The president is claiming borderless license to turn on his perceived enemies, both foreign and domestic.
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After Maduro Ouster, Trump’s Venezuela Moves Pose a Challenge for GOP in Congress

By: Robert Jimison —
Republicans have cheered the raid that ousted Nicolás Maduro but toiled to square their longstanding views with President Trump’s unclear and rapidly evolving strategy.

“We do not have U.S. armed forces in Venezuela, and we are not occupying that country,” Speaker Mike Johnson said on Monday.

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Maduro Is Gone, but Repression in Venezuela Has Intensified

By: Jack Nicas —
Security forces have boarded buses, searched phones and interrogated people, looking for evidence that they welcomed the capture of Nicolás Maduro.

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A Defense of U.S. Intervention in Venezuela

By: Ross Douthat， Sophia Alvarez Boyd and Victoria Chamberlin —
The former envoy Elliott Abrams says the administration should push harder for regime change.

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The Law of the Jungle

By: Sam Sifton —
We ask where America’s new foreign policy might take us — and the world.

In Caracas, Venezuela, on Monday.

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Oil Tanker Fleeing the Coast Guard Now Listed in Russian Ship Database

By: Christiaan Triebert and Nicholas Nehamas —
The listing could make it more challenging for U.S. forces to board the ship, which an arm of the Kremlin’s maritime authority says is now flying the Russian flag.

A U.S. military helicopter flying over the Panama-flagged Centuries, which was intercepted in the Caribbean Sea. American officials have suggested that they intend to seize another ship, Bella 1, which they are currently tracking.

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