Venezuela has the world’s largest oil reserves—but history, costs, and political risk raise questions about whether U.S. oil companies are ready to invest.

We’ve been checking in on the economic conditions in Venezuela for about a decade now. In response to the U.S. strike and the capture of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro this weekend, we’re re-surfacing this episode with an update.

Donald Trump's first administration offered a $15 million reward for any information on Maduro in 2020. Biden's State Department increased it.

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What does history tell us about U.S. actions in Venezuela? NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with Stephen Kinzer, author of the book, "Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq."

An insurgency that ties the United States down in Venezuela would delight Beijing and Russia. Drug cartels that have been able to make the Mexican state back down through their violence might be tempted to try their luck with Trump by staging drone attacks on sporting events or clogged highways in the United States,

The Trump administration has set its sights on Venezuela in its latest campaign against illegal drugs, but data shows that the country is responsible for just a sliver of drug trafficking directly to the United States. The Get the Facts Data Team analyzed ...

Mr. Hogan teaches in the history and literature program at Harvard. His research focuses on Central America and the United States in the 19th and 20th centuries. While the large U.S. military force now in the Caribbean is ostensibly there to fight ...

Following are key facts about the oil and mining sectors of Venezuela, whose President Nicolas Maduro was captured by U.S. forces on Saturday.