As the U.S. military presence near Venezuela increases, 60 Minutes traveled to the South American nation for a rare look at what life is like under its embattled dictator, Nicolás Maduro. "Instability isn't just an architectural feature in Venezuela;

The Pentagon has deployed the U.S.S. Gerald R. Ford, the largest aircraft carrier in the world, to the region, ostensibly to fight cartels.

Days earlier the Pentagon’s boss, Pete Hegseth, had ordered her to sail to the Caribbean, part of a vast and unexplained military build-up in the region. By early October, more than ten percent of all deployed American naval assets were located in the area controlled by the Pentagon’s Southern Command (SOUTHCOM),

Venezuela has the world's largest oil reserves, but "our people don't even have gas even to cook. That's a disaster," María Corina Machado told Fortune.

The government of Venezuela’s socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro claimed in a Sunday statement that it captured an alleged “mercenary group” with “direct information” from the CIA. The statement from Maduro’s Vice President Delcy Rodríguez accused the alleged group of planning a “false flag operation” from around nearby Trinidad and Tobago and accused the small island nation of performing ongoing “military exercises” under “the coordination,

The USS Gerald R. Ford and a strike team is headed to the Caribbean to combat the spread of drugs from Venezuela.

The U.S. has carried out several air strikes on Venezuelan vessels that the Trump administration has accused of carrying drugs and cartel members.

Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly said Sunday that the Trump administration’s recent move sending an aircraft carrier battle group to waters around Central and South America is “questionable.” This move comes after the U.S. military carried out its 10th strike on an alleged Venezuelan drug boat, all of them occurring in international waters.