NPR's Steve Inskeep asks Sarah Lenti, a former National Security Council director, what U.S. engagement in Venezuela means to other global players like China and Russia.

As a new oil trading year begins, here's why crude futures continue to trade at or near their lowest levels in five years, despite heightened geopolitical tension.

The U.S. had announced a $50 million reward for information leading to Maduro’s arrest before news emerged Saturday of his capture in Venezuela.

London/Rio de Janeiro | After almost a decade of threats against Venezuela, President Donald Trump said on Saturday that US forces had infiltrated the country and extracted the country’s authoritarian President Nicolás Maduro and his wife. Below is the history of US relations with Venezuela from 2017, during Trump’s first term in office, onwards.