Can The Earthquake Help Venezuela Shake The Dictatorship?
The earthquake in Venezuela made the failures of the Rodriguez administration painfully clear.
Tren de Aragua
US must halt the terror-driven gold rush that’s looting Venezuela
A human-rights horror is unfolding right under America’s nose, with kids under age 10 laboring in mines, girls as young as 12 working in brothels and whole communities fleeing cartel violence. Venezuela...
Op-eds
Maduro’s last exit is to Brooklyn
But his henchmen remain in power in Caracas
Op-eds
U.S. Blockades Sanctioned Oil Tankers in Venezuela. Iran Deserves the Same Treatment
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,...
Policy Briefs
Trump Signs Executive Order Designating Fentanyl a Weapon of Mass Destruction
Executive Order To Designate Deadly Opioid as WMD: President Donald Trump signed an executive order on December 15 to designate the drug fentanyl and “its core precursor chemicals”...
Flash Briefs
Venezuelan Oil Exports Continued Despite U.S. Escalation in November
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...
Policy Briefs
How Venezuela’s Maduro became Washington’s most persistent hemispheric adversary
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...
Op-eds
Trump wants to go after criminal networks. A new approach to sanctions is needed.
Excerpt During his address to a joint session of Congress, President Trump made a powerful declaration: “Two weeks ago, I officially designated [Tren de Aragua] — along with MS-13 and the ruthless...
Op-eds
Border security is national security
That used to be common knowledge