The flights with Venezuelans who had been living in the United States arrived at a time of airspace safety concerns as the U.S. military pressures Venezuela’s leader.

The United States has significantly increased its military presence near Venezuela, carrying out strikes on alleged drug boats in the Caribbean Sea and threatening the Nicolás Maduro’s regime with

The putative parallelism of a U.S. military operation in Venezuela and Putin’s invasion of Ukraine could reinforce the Kremlin narrative that Russia was forced to invade Ukraine due the threat that it posed to Russia.

Trump posted the country's airspace should be considered closed. Venezuela condemned it as a "colonialist threat" incompatible with international law.

CFR President Michael Froman sits down with CFR Senior Fellow Elliott Abrams to discuss the prospect of the Trump administration pursuing regime change in Venezuela.

Since the 1990s, ties between Washington and Caracas have been dominated by tensions linked to Maduro’s left-wing predecessor, Hugo Chavez. The bilateral relationship deteriorated further after Maduro came to power following Chavez’s death in 2013.

A Venezuelan newspaper took aim at the American president as tensions continue to simmer between the two nations.

Rep. Adam Smith (D-Wash.) on Thursday slammed the prospect of the United States going to war with Venezuela, as tensions escalate between the two countries. “It’s really hard to say,” Smith, the ranking member on the House Armed Services Committee,

Intensifying US threats against Venezuela are raising expectations of imminent military action as President Donald Trump heaps pressure on the Caracas regime and flexes power in the Western Hemisphere.

The U.S. Department of State on Wednesday warned Americans against traveling to Venezuela, maintaining a Level 4—“Do Not Travel"—advisory first issued in May amid rising tensions over the U.S.'s anti-drug trafficking campaign and pressure on the government of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.

A plane from the United States carrying 266 Venezuelan migrants landed in Venezuela on Wednesday, Foreign Minister Yvan Gil said.