President Trump has deployed the CIA to Venezuela and planes and warships to the region - what is he trying to achieve?

The buildup of U.S. military forces near Venezuela and a series of deadly attacks on alleged drug-trafficking boats in waters off its coast has raised the spectre of an invasion of the South American country.

Experts call it "21st-century gunboat diplomacy" as U.S. positions strike-capable forces in Caribbean amid tensions with Maduro regime and cartels.

Cubans rallied for Venezuela against U.S. aggression, Bolivia elected its first centrist president in 20 years and Pope Leo XIV canonized Venezuela’s “doctor of the poor” before tens of thousands of people.

U.S. strikes against Venezuela in international waters are a dangerous escalation and amount to "extrajudicial executions," a group of independent United Nations experts said on Tuesday.

Hezbollah operatives use Venezuelan passports and drug networks to infiltrate Western Hemisphere, turning country into terror group's regional headquarters.

The Trump administration is ratcheting up pressure on the Venezuelan president, Nicolás Maduro, while striking vessels that it says are trafficking drugs.

After years of rallying behind President Trump's promise to keep America out of "endless wars," a new divide is growing among his most loyal supporters. The cause: the administration's expanding military campaign against Venezuela.