An opaque Swiss bank may soon lose its access to the U.S. dollar — and the story of how it got there runs through Venezuela, Russia, and Iran. The Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement...
While deeply flawed, Acting President Delcy Rodriguez is still the United States’ best bet for Venezuela’s stabilization and transition to democracy.
On February 8, Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Pablo Guanipa vanished from the streets of Caracas in what allies called a kidnapping, a development that could jeopardize US policy...
In the week since Washington arrested former Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro, the outlines of a post-Maduro Venezuela have begun to take shape. Interim Venezuelan President Delcy Rodríguez, Defense...
On January 3, at around 2 am, the United States military began a wave of airstrikes on military targets in the Venezuelan capital of Caracas and surrounding areas. Shortly afterward, at around 4:30 am,...
The waters off the shores of President Nicolas Maduro’s Bolivarian Republic are getting choppy for the dictator. After the U.S. Coast Guard seized the Skipper, a Venezuelan supertanker, on December 10,...
If the Maduro regime were to fall tomorrow, the immediate applause in Washington would be for the restoration of democracy. But in Houston, the reaction would be a scramble for logistics. For over a...
U.S. pressure on Venezuela’s strongman, Nicolás Maduro, is increasing — his cartel has just been designated a terrorist organization and an American aircraft carrier group is circling off his coast...
On November 13, US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announced Operation Southern Spear amid an increased American military presence off the coast of Venezuela. Hegseth stated that the...
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi just wrapped up a two-day visit to Caracas, during which he consolidated Iran’s strategic alliance with the regime of Nicolas Maduro. While talk of American imperialism...
A Manhattan federal jury on Monday convicted Ali Sadr Hasheminejad, the Iranian owner of the now-defunct Pilatus Bank of Malta, of evading U.S. sanctions against Iran by conspiring to transfer payments...
The U.S. Treasury Department last week sanctioned a subsidiary of Russian energy giant Rosneft for its leading role in illicit exports of Venezuelan oil. With this much-anticipated step, the Trump administration...
Turkey is experiencing one of the worst economic downturns in its history.
After recognizing Juan Guaido last month as interim president of Venezuela, the Trump administration began to support the Guaido gove...
On Sunday, Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro will face his country’s hungry, impoverished voters. The election will be neither free nor fair, so another win for the corrupt Socialist pa...
Venezuela has reportedly made the first state-backed cryptocurrency, the petro, available to the public. Crypto investors should just say no. For one thing, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro blat...
Opening Remarks Q and A Introduction...
Opening Remarks Q and A Introduction...
Calls on Administration for More Sanctions Against Iran's Energy Partners and Human Rights Abusers Washington, D.C. (May 25, 2011) - FDD congratulates a bipartisan group of Senato...