(Bloomberg) -- An adviser for President Donald Trump met with President Nicolas Maduro in a bid to get Venezuela to accept deportation flights carrying gang members and to secure the release of ...

The Trump administration's hardline stance emphasizes the deportation issue, with Grenell warning of consequences if Maduro doesn't comply. The visit marks one of the first meetings with Venezuela ...

In 2020, he traveled with Erik Prince, the founder of controversial security firm Blackwater, to Mexico City for a secret meeting with a top Maduro aide. The backchannel talks centered on Maduro ...

The government of Nicolás Maduro will take in Venezuelans who are deported by the United States, President Donald Trump said Saturday, potentially clearing the way for hundreds of thousands of ...

President Donald Trump’s envoy for special missions, Richard Grenell, has traveled to Venezuela to deliver an in-person message to socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro about accepting violent ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. A senior U.S. official traveled Friday to Venezuela to urge President Nicolás Maduro to take back deported ...

In 2020, after Grenell had served as Trump’s acting U.S. director of national intelligence, he quietly met with an influential Maduro ally, Jorge Rodríguez, in Mexico City, without informing ...

Venezuela is waiting for migrants to return home after appointments to enter the US were cancelled under the new Trump administration, President Nicolás Maduro said on Tuesday. His comments come ...

Oil wells roared back to life and massive tanker ships returned to Venezuela’s coast to be filled with heavy, hard-to-refine crude destined for the U.S. Maduro's promised election was neither ...

It is the origin point of more than eight million Venezuelans who have fled the country under Maduro’s regime. Then there’s the matter of his authoritarian socialist state – on the far side ...