The United States, which on Saturday attacked Venezuela and is said to have abducted its president, has a long history of military interventions and support for dictatorships in Latin America.

After a whirlwind Saturday ending in the capture of Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, the pair is in U.S. custody awaiting arraignment.

A newly unsealed U.S. Justice Department indictment accuses captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro of running a “corrupt, illegitimate government” fueled by a drug-trafficking operation that flooded the U.

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro’s mocking and taunting of Donald Trump has been dubbed the "last straw" before the President pulled the trigger on the dictator's arrest.

President Trump claimed overnight that the United States carried out airstrikes in Venezuela and captured President Nicolás Maduro.

How the U.S. has pursued foreign leaders allegedly involved in international drug trafficking operations over the decades.

A ball-by-ball account of how Nicolas Maduro was captured explains the United States operation that led to the arrest of Venezuela’s president and his wife. It covers the raid, charges, reactions, legal basis,

But shortly after the US military rained strikes down on Caracas and other areas on Saturday, US President Donald Trump – in a surprise snub against Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, who was awarded last year’s Nobel Peace Prize – noted that Vice President Delcy Rodriguez, 56, had been sworn in as interim president.