Dismantling this regime will require strategic sanctions and diplomatic pressure,' a former Venezuelan intelligence official said.

Three Venezuelan migrants — including a baby-faced Tren de Aragua leader — brazenly peddled illegal pistols, shotguns, riles and ghost guns across New York City, prosecutors alleged.

New York City has shuttered a sprawling tent complex that housed hundreds of migrant families on a remote former airport in Brooklyn, as it shrinks the emergency shelter system built up in response to a surge from the southern border that has been steadily receding in recent months.

President Nicolás Maduro was sworn in for another six years on Friday, despite evidence that he lost a July election decisively.

Yesterday, opposition leader María Corina Machado posted a video on social media saying the moment was not right for his return. Recorded in hiding, she promised: “Edmundo will come to Venezuela to be sworn in as constitutional president of Venezuela at the right time.”

Maduro’s calls for an invasion are a clear attempt to get rid of the United States presence and grow his influence in the area,” González-Colón wrote.

Pedro Mario Burelli, a veteran Venezuelan political operative and an opponent of Mr. Maduro’s movement, called the visit part of an effort to “freak him out” — to scare Mr. Maduro into believing that the global political tide is increasingly turning against him.

A U.S. judge on Wednesday dismissed a Puerto Rican bank's lawsuit challenging the Federal Reserve Bank of New York's decision to cut off its access to the U.S. central banking system in a crackdown on lenders with links to Venezuela.

NY Fed Beats Lawsuit by Puerto Rican Bank Over Venezuela-Related Account Cutoff By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Wednesday dismissed a Puerto Rican bank's lawsuit ...