NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado issued an open call for a transfer of power Saturday, urging the military to abandon Nicolás Maduro’s government and recognize opposition-backed candidate Edmundo González as president after the U.S. said Maduro had been captured.Machado’s statement came…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The U.S. capture of Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro and his wife on Saturday is reviving memories of the dramatic 1989 takedown of Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega, which coincidentally took place 36 years ago to the day of Maduro’s Jan. 3 capture.Under former…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro participated in a car interview just days before he was captured by U.S. forces. During the interview, Maduro said his government is open to negotiating an agreement targeting drug trafficking networks tied to his government.The pre-taped interview was staged…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The ruling Ayatollah of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ali Khamenei, on Saturday issued an angry response to the unfolding nationwide demonstrations against his regime’s political and economic corruption.The 86-year-old Khamenei declared in his first public speech since the strikes and social…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The Trump administration’s military operation that resulted in the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro is a devastating setback to the South American nation’s long-term ally, the Islamic Republic of Iran, experts contend.As Iran experiences yet another day of anti-regime protests across…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Venezuelans across the globe took to the streets after the capture of Nicolás Maduro, whose rule was marked by economic collapse and mass migration out of the oil-rich nation.Venezuelans in Miami, Fla., Chile, Peru, Ecuador, and Madrid, Spain, donned Venezuela’s national colors…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! President Donald Trump confirmed that Delta Force — the U.S. Army’s most elite counterterrorism and direct-action unit — carried out the daring overnight operation in Venezuela that led to the capture of dictator Nicolás Maduro and his wife.Delta Force, officially known as…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! As Americans awoke to the news of U.S. military strikes on Venezuela, and the capture and extraction of Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores, questions are being asked if Maduro was betrayed by someone from his secretive inner circle. That…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The presumed successor to Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro is currently in Russia, a report said Saturday. Four sources familiar with the movements of Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodriguez confirmed her location to Reuters, although the news agency cited Russia’s foreign ministry as claiming…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Just hours before his capture by the U.S., Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro met with a Chinese envoy, highlighting the great power competition between Washington and Beijing in the Western Hemisphere.Maduro received Qiu Xiaoqi, the Chinese government’s special representative for Latin American affairs,…