President Donald Trump's intensifying threats toward Venezuela, accompanied by an unprecedented campaign of strikes against suspected drug traffickers at sea, mark the dawn of a new era of U.S. intervention in the Western Hemisphere. But the White House's ...

Among the flurry of executive orders that Donald Trump issued on the first day of his return to office was a peculiar one: to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. Claiming to restore names that “honor American greatness,” the ...

The United States’ history in the region includes several about-faces, contradictions and missteps. The United States’ history in the region includes several about-faces, contradictions and missteps. A U.S. military helicopter flying over burning ...

Venezuela declared a state of emergency, calling U.S. strikes "extremely serious military aggression." Venezuelan President Maduro was arrested.

The U.S. military carried out a daring secret mission to capture Venezuela’s authoritarian leader Nicolas Maduro after a federal grand jury indicted him for narco-trafficking. President Trump said the U.

The head of Brazil's Federal Police also said Venezuela had closed its border with the country, one of the main crossing points for Venezuelan refugees in the region and where Bra