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Under the new policy, profits from the sale of energy would be directed to paying down debt owed to Chevron.

The U.S. Treasury Department is allowing Chevron to resume "limited" energy production in Venezuela after years of sanctions have curbed oil and gas profits flowing to President Maduro's government.

The Biden administration is easing some oil sanctions on Venezuela in an effort to support newly restarted negotiations between the Venezuelan government and its opposition.

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A powerful drug lord from the Dominican Republic known as “The Abuser” has pled guilty to drug trafficking charges in U.S. federal court.

Four illegal immigrants from Venezuela were found and an alleged smuggler was arrested in Texas during a traffic stop

A Border Patrol agent was allegedly pushed, dragged and punched by two Venezuelan nationals caught crossing the border illegally who are now charged with assault on a federal officer.

For two years, Venezuela’s socialist government has been fighting to extricate from the U.S. justice system an insider businessman it claims was on an ultra-secret mission to Iran when he was arrested on a U.S. warrant during a routine fuel stop in Africa.

The presidents of Colombia and Venezuela have met and say they will improve trade and security cooperation, as both countries seek to normalize relations following the election of Colombia’s first leftist leader

National Hurricane Center forecasters are watching for the potential formation of a tropical system near the eastern Caribbean this weekend.

National Hurricane Center forecasters are watching for the potential emergence of a system near the eastern Caribbean this weekend.

Veteran Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward has collected his recorded interviews with former President Donald Trump – eight hours' worth – into an audiobook release, "The Trump Tapes." He talks with CBS News' John Dickerson about Trump's view of the presidency as a trophy and his unsettling communications with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un; and about the question Woodward most regrets not asking.

Beyond the new reality that the migrants face and the story of their desperate need to run away from their home country to undergo a month’s journey north where most are now homeless, they all once had a home, a profession, and the hope to never migrate north.

In a shelter on Mexico City’s east side, Venezuelan mechanic José Cuicas is waiting anxiously for an American friend to answer his request to sponsor him for one of the 24,000 visas the Biden administration says it will give to Venezuelans

Venezuelans and other migrants are struggling to come to terms with a new U.S. policy discouraging border crossings.

Venezuelans leave their homeland in droves - even though many struggle to feed themselves abroad.

Venezuelan Gilbert Fernández still plans to cross the dangerous Darién jungle into Panama headed over land toward the U.S. despite Washington’s announcement that it will grant conditional humanitarian permits only to 24,000 Venezuelan migrants arriving by air

Venezuelan Gilbert Fernández still plans to cross the dangerous Darién jungle into Panama headed over land toward the U.S. despite Washington's announcement that it will grant conditional humanitarian permits only to 24,000 Venezuelan migrants arriving by air.

The Department of Homeland Security announced Thursday that they are releasing new directives for a major change in Venezuelan immigration policy to the U.S.

A day after burying his mother, Rafael Negrín has carried the coffin of his aunt who also died in floods and landslides in central Venezuela that killed at least 43 people and left dozens missing.

The Biden administration sees the program as a way to slow the rising numbers of migrants crossing the border without authorization.

The U.S. Department of the Treasury will investigate whether Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis misused pandemic relief funds to fly a group of Venezuelan migrants from Texas to Massachusetts in September, a U.S. Senator said.

Rescue workers in Venezuela are clearing rocks and mud from the streets of a north-central city that was hit by a massive landslide three days earlier

Rescue workers in Venezuela are clearing rocks and mud from the streets of a north-central city that was hit by a massive landslide three days earlier.

Rescuers were carrying out search operations with trained dogs and drones as dozens of people remained missing after the landslide.

A landslide fueled by flooding and days of torrential rain swept through a town in central Venezuela, leaving at least 22 people dead, authorities said Sunday.

Dozens remain missing after the landslide tore through Las Tejerías.

Authorities say a landslide fueled by flooding and days of torrential rain has swept through a town in central Venezuela, leaving at least 22 people dead as it dragged mud, rocks and trees through neighborhoods

Authorities say a landslide fueled by flooding and days of torrential rain has swept through a town in central Venezuela, leaving at least 22 people dead as it dragged mud, rocks and trees through neighborhoods.

Fox News host Brian Kilmeade laid out what the Biden administration should do to tackle rising gas prices and make America energy-independent in his monologue on "One Nation."

A tropical depression is expected to form within the next 48 hours from a tropical wave approaching Caribbean and South America. Tropical Depression Twelve, in the central Atlantic Ocean, is expected to become a remnant low.

Tropical Depression Twelve formed yesterday some 3,400 miles east of Miami and is expected to quickly unravel thanks to hostile upper-level winds.

Delegates of Colombia’s government and the nation’s largest remaining guerrilla group announced that they will restart peace talks that were suspended in 2018

Delegates of Colombia’s government and the nation’s largest remaining guerrilla group announced that they will restart peace talks that were suspended in 2018.

The mysterious woman who allegedly lured dozens of migrants on Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ flights to Martha’s Vineyard from San Antonio has been identified by several media outlets as Perla H. Huerta, a former combat medic and U.S. Army counterintelligence agent living in Tampa.

In August, U.S. Customs and Border Protection stopped more than 25,000 people from Venezuela at the southern border — a 43% monthly increase.

The government of Venezuela has rejected a report by an independent experts working with the United Nations’ top human rights body who allege that President Nicolas Maduro personally ordered the detention of government opponents.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection says the recent influx is due to "failing communist regimes."

Ron DeSantis and Donald Trump are making a dubious cost-benefit analysis.

The disturbance we’re tracking along the northern coast of Venezuela in the eastern Caribbean Thursday – coined Invest 98L – is expected to organize into a strengthening storm by next week and pose a potential threat to the U.S. while powerful Hurricane Fiona will bring hurricane conditions to Bermuda Thursday night into Friday before morphing into an extreme, historic, and potentially record-shattering hurricane-like storm for Nova Scotia and the Canadian Maritimes this weekend.

A vicious beat down that took place on a South Florida school campus was caught on camera.

Leonard Francis was boarding a flight to Cuba when he was taken into custody, the U.S. Marshals Service confirmed to CBS News.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ decision to send a group of Venezuelan migrants from Texas to Martha’s Vineyard continues to attract criticism from political opponents, as well as a criminal investigation and lawsuit, but the governor has remained steadfast defending the move.

A Venezuelan migrant family is sharing their journey to South Florida in an exclusive interview with Local 10 News.

One Venezuelan mother traveling with her husband and their 11-year-old child said she "felt helpless, defrauded, and desperate" after arriving in Martha's Vineyard.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is defending his decision to send a group of Venezuelan migrants from Texas to Martha’s Vineyard amid a criminal investigation and, now, a class-action lawsuit filed on behalf of the migrants filed Tuesday.

One million of border encounters in fiscal year 2022 have resulted in migrants being expelled from the U.S. under Title 42, a coronavirus-era policy.

A Texas sheriff has opened an investigation into the circumstances surrounding Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ decision to fly a group of migrants from San Antonio to Martha’s Vineyard, his agency tweeted Monday evening.

When Lever Alejos of Venezuela arrived at the southern border penniless in July, he gladly accepted a free bus ride to Washington, D.C., courtesy of the state of Texas. He had no family or friends to receive him, and spent one night in the plaza across from Union Station. He soon settled into a homeless shelter. “I have nothing,” Alejos, 29, said on his third day in the city, “but I have the will to work and succeed.” Two months later, Alejos is making between $600 to $700 a week, saving up to b

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis pointed fingers at President Joe Biden Friday amid questions over his decision to fly a group of migrants to Martha’s Vineyard, as others criticize the move.

Their wayward journeys to Chicago are not unlike the experiences of thousands of migrants being sent across the country from Republican governors for political purposes.

“They felt they were finally going to be able to live the American Dream,” said one Venezuelan-American from Sunrise. “Little did they know they were being sent to an island of millionaires."

Leaders in South Florida’s Venezuelan-American community gathered in Doral Thursday to denounce Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ decision to send two planes filled with undocumented immigrants to Massachusetts.

FTW’s Andy Nesbitt and USA TODAY Sports NFL insider Mike Jones debate if the Minnesota Vikings are already the team to beat in the NFC North.

The presidents of Colombia and Venezuela say the years-long closure of their countries’ shared border to cargo transport will end Sept. 26

More than a week ago, the first buses of migrants that Texas Gov. Greg Abbott sent to Chicago arrived as a way to criticize the nation’s immigration policies and his promise to send asylum-seekers to sanctuary cities.

The armed forces of Venezuela have carried out what authorities say is the largest marijuana bust of the last 10 years in the South American country

The armed forces of Venezuela announced Monday what they characerized as the largest marijuana bust of the last 10 years in the South American country. Members of the armed forces on Saturday intercepted a vessel carrying more than 3.1 US tons (2.8 metric tons) of marijuana, almost 18 pounds (8 kg) of cocaine and extra outboard boat motors off Venezuela’s Caribbean coast, said Gen. Domingo Hernández, general commander of the Operational Strategic Command of the Bolivarian National Armed Forces.

An appeals court has overturned a Florida federal judge’s order seizing the U.S. fortune of a sanctioned Venezuelan billionaire with alleged cartel ties to satisfy a $318 million judgment for the American victims of a Colombian terrorist kidnapping.

Hundreds of asylum-seeking migrants continue arriving in New York City in what has become a crisis in the big apple.

The sale of a popular conservative Spanish station comes as Republicans and Democrats vie for Latino votes.

New filings in a civil suit allege that a former Miami congressman who signed a $50 million consulting contract with Venezuela’s socialist government not only did no apparent work, but also channeled a large chunk of the money to a yacht company on behalf of a fugitive billionaire.

Cuban firefighters have been joined by special teams sent by Mexico and Venezuela as they battle for a second day to control a fire blazing at a big oil tank farm

Cuban firefighters have been joined by special teams sent by Mexico and Venezuela as they battle for a second day to control a fire blazing at a big oil tank farm.

Official cross-border trade between Venezuela and Colombia has been nearly shut off since 2015, when Venezuela’s socialist president closed crossings after years of deteriorating relations with Colombia’s conservative administrations.

The Colombian government claims the leader of a remaining Marxist guerrilla group is on his deathbed in Venezuela. The guerrilla group claims he was injured but he is recovering.

At least three Venezuelan ride-sharing apps launched during the pandemic. They’ve taken advantage of a de facto switch of currencies from the Venezuelan bolivar to the U.S. dollar.

Federal prosecutors charged two financial asset managers Tuesday, accusing them of taking part in a $1.2 billion international scheme to launder funds corruptly obtained from Venezuela’s state-owned oil company over a span of more than three years.

The Rev. Luis Alberto Mosquera was sentenced to prison for sexually abusing a 6-year-old boy. After an early release, he was allowed to resume his ministry.

The U.S. National Hurricane Center says a storm that has hurled rain on the southern Caribbean and the northern shoulder of South America is expected to hit Central America as a tropical storm over the weekend and eventually develop into a hurricane over the Pacific.

A second tropical rainstorm could bring localized flooding to southeast Texas this weekend

President Joe Biden plans to meet on July 12 at the White House with Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

Senior Biden administration officials undertake latest bid to rebuild relations with the South American oil giant as the war in Ukraine drags on.

Three storm systems are present in the Atlantic, one of which is likely to become Tropical Storm Bonnie on its approach toward the eastern edge of the Caribbean Sea, forecasters said.

Three storm systems are present in the Atlantic, one of which is likely to become Tropical Storm Bonnie on its approach toward the eastern edge of the Caribbean Sea, forecasters said.

Senior U.S. government officials have quietly traveled to Caracas in the latest bid to bring home detained Americans and rebuild relations with the South American oil giant as the war in Ukraine drags on, forcing the U.S. to recalibrate other foreign policy objectives. A U.S. State Department spokesperson described the trip as a welfare visit focused on the safety of several U.S. citizens detained in Caracas, including a group of oil executives from Houston-based Citgo jailed more than four years ago. The delegation includes Roger Carstens, the special presidential envoy on hostage affairs, as well as Ambassador James Story, who heads the U.S. government’s Venezuelan Affairs Unit out of neighboring Colombia.

The Jan. 6 committee has laid out a strong case against the president. Republicans prefer to look away rather than engage on the evidence.

A one-time ally of the late Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez has pleaded guilty for taking $3.8 million in bribes to help steer lucrative oil contracts to companies tied to officials in Venezuela’s socialist government and military.

Mexican immigration authorities said they found a vertiable United Nations of migrants aboard a freight truck

The leader of the U.S.-backed opposition in Venezuela has been physically attacked during a visit to a rural community.

The leader of the U.S.-backed opposition in Venezuela has been physically attacked during a visit to a rural community

Iranian state-run media say Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro has arrived in the Iranian capital, Tehran, on a two-day state visit

Several thousand migrants have started walking through southern Mexico, covering ground before the heat of the day — and while authorities show no signs yet of trying to stop them.

Newsy correspondents in Venezuela, London and Tokyo share how the countries are responding to the latest mass shooting in the U.S.

The Biden administration has renewed a license partially exempting Chevron from sanctions on Venezuela so it can keep operating in the oil-rich, socialist-run nation.

A bribe-paying Venezuelan businessman has been sentenced to five years’ probation in the United States in recognition of his efforts to expose rampant corruption in that country’s judiciary.

The United States government is moving to ease a few economic sanctions on Venezuela in a gesture meant to encourage resumed negotiations between the U.S.-backed opposition and the government of President Nicolás Maduro.

The White House is touting the release of two American's they say were wrongfully detained in Venezuela.

Three checkered oil regimes that President Joe Biden and past U.S. leaders have spectacularly snubbed — Venezuela, Saudi Arabia and Iran — are the targets of U.S. outreach as global fuel prices hit dizzying highs during the Ukraine crisis.

As the United States look for fuel sources, the possible search for oil in Venezuela is drawing criticism from a Florida senator.

Both officially and in terms of public perception, Colombians in recent years have welcomed Venezuelan migrants with open arms. But with Colombia's upcoming elections this year, many experts warn that trend could change.

Senior U.S. officials secretly traveled to Venezuela over the weekend in a risky bid to unfreeze hostile relations with Vladimir Putin’s top ally in Latin America, a top oil exporter whose re-entry into U.S. energy markets could mitigate the fallout at the pump from a possible oil embargo on Russia.

Russia’s aggression against Ukraine comes at a time when tensions between Colombia and Venezuela have been escalating.

A federal judge unsealed records on Wednesday in Miami revealing that a Colombian businessman who Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro had described as his envoy was a confidential source for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.

Amnesty International believes the findings of a report filed this week could be proof of crimes against humanity in Venezuela.

Venezuelan authorities touted this week that a powerful criminal organization that had ruled marginalized squatter settlements on the hills of southwestern Caracas had taken a hit.

Gladys Rosales, a retired nurse in Caracas, said she has trouble making ends meet. She has to rely on the bolivar despite the ongoing dollarization in Venezuela.

Nicolás Maduro’s supporters determined the Venezuelan opposition had 12 hours to collect the 4.2 million signatures needed to request a revocation referendum against the president.

Venezuela’s National Electoral Council says an opposition petition drive seeking to force a recall referendum against President Nicolás Maduro fell far short of the signatures needed.

Voters in the Venezuelan state of Barinas — where Chavismo was born — elected an opposition candidate as governor during a special election on Sunday. It was the first time in more than two decades that a member of the Chávez family wasn’t on the ballot.