Anatoly Kurmanaev

A Turkish businessman once allied with the Maduro regime has tied the knot with President Trump’s former personal lawyer, Alina Habba, at the same time he is seeking to retain a big contract in Venezuela.

The administration is brokering deals in a notoriously corrupt industry, including one with a company that the United States deems a security threat.

With U.S. support, traders arrived and cut deals. That investment has so far failed to improve the bleak conditions in the mining industry.

The Defense Department’s Office of Strategic Capital, founded by the Biden administration to give loans to bolster the U.S. defense industry, is helping lead President Trump’s oil deal.

The administration will work with a private Venezuelan oil company that has close ties to the country’s government.

A list of alleged crimes has not prevented Diosdado Cabello, and other Venezuelan officials, from working with a U.S. government that once hounded them.

The devastation of Jacqueline Zúñiga’s city in Venezuela follows the demise of her political project. The revolution is over, but the human ties that help her cope remain.

U.S. officials called a bid by María Corina Machado, the Nobel Peace Prize winner, to return to earthquake-battered Venezuela a “political stunt” that has distracted from recovery efforts.

Deadly mudslides in 1999 dealt lasting blows to impoverished La Guaira. The response of the acting president, Delcy Rodríguez, may be a bellwether of her political longevity.

President Trump has boasted of the success of an armed intervention in Venezuela. A natural disaster raises pressure to match rhetoric with action.