With a U.S. Navy flotilla off the coast and President Trump pushing for strongman Nicolás Maduro’s ouster, Venezuelans are focused on a more urgent matter: the price of Christmas preparations.Shoppers are filling malls but finding they are blowing their entire paycheck for gifts and decorations.

The US is already facing a war from Venezuelan drug traffickers and narco-terrorists who are helping to smuggle fentanyl, opioids, cocaine and more into America, Sen. Dave McCormick warned on

The Venezuelan President has denied any ties to the illegal drug trade, and his government has condemned Trump’s warning that the country’s air space should be considered closed as a “colonialist threat” and “yet another extravagant, illegal and unjustified aggression against the Venezuelan people.”

As U.S. carriers and Marines mass in the Caribbean, Venezuela has placed its military and millions of civilian militiamen on alert under the Guerra de Todo el Pueblo (“People’s War”) doctrine. Designed to trade space for time and turn cities and jungles into prolonged guerrilla battlegrounds,

Senate Democrats, along with Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), on Wednesday filed a war powers resolution to prevent the United States from using the U.S. Armed Forces from engaging in hostilities with

Andrés Izarra, a minister under Maduro who has broken with the government and gone into exile, put it more bluntly. “He is a compulsive political operator,” he told Anatoly. “He plays by the rough rules of street politics, of corrupt union politics, rules that are similar to those of a mafia.”

President Trump's pressure campaign on Venezuela has included controversial strikes on alleged drug boats in international waters in the Caribbean and Pacific. Abrams thinks the president should go further.

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

Far from supposedly surrendering, Maduro has appeared in public dancing and encouraging Venezuelans to work and party. He called the United States’ recent. actions "psychological terrorism" and has shown no signs he intends to give in to the Trump administration’s pressure campaign to resign.

Turkey has risen as a potential destination should Venezuela's authoritarian President Nicolas Maduro be pushed out of power, according to a new report.