The U.S. government has confiscated a luxury jet linked to Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, alleging that the aircraft was illicitly acquired through a shell company and smuggled out of the United States in violation of sanctions and export control regulations.
A DEA agent leaked internal agency secrets about forthcoming charges against a criminal target in Venezuela as part of a bribery scheme, a jury was told this week, the Associated Press reports.
Border Patrol agents shot pepper balls at a group of Venezuelans to drive them out of the U.S. during a tense and chaotic scene that unfolded near the U.S.-Mexico border Monday.
A record number of migrants have been arrested along the Mexico border with nearly 2.4 million detainments in the last 12 months.
The fugitive defense contract behind one of the biggest scandals in U.S. naval history is seeking political asylum in Venezuela.
The Venezuelan president who routinely suspects the U.S. is trying to overthrow him is now turning to America – more specifically, the FBI – for help investigating an assassination attempt.
Venezuela’s first lady said the arrest of her two nephews on drug trafficking charges amounts to kidnapping by the DEA.
The DEA has busted a drug-smuggling ring that led to the arrest of the Venezuelan president’s family in Haiti.
