Tim Padgett

From Sucre to South Florida, Venezuelans have mixed feelings about whether a threatened U.S. military incursion against drug traffickers will affect their desperate situation — and their brutal dictatorship.

Friday's announcement that Venezuelan democracy champion María Corina Machado won the Nobel Peace Prize also lifts a diaspora facing deportations in the U.S. as well as a brutal regime at home.

Three years after Democrat-led investors bought two prominent Miami stations, critics say the plan to steer Spanish-language radio in a more moderate, professional direction has run aground. The buyers point to rough local media economics — and politics.

A new Bendixen & Amandi survey finds a plurality of Miami-Dade voters oppose using the U.S. military to oust Venezuela's dictatorship — despite the county's large, pro-Trump Venezuelan community. It suggests the idea lacks national support as well.

COMMENTARY The English-only furor over Bad Bunny's Super Bowl gig disingenuously disregards America's historical reality — but so does a Spanish-only mindset that many immigrants still embrace.

Human Rights Watch and the Committee for the Freedom of Political Prisoners in Venezuela have documented 19 cases of detainees, many with ties to opposition political parties, who have been denied contact with their families and lawyers since their arrest.

Hundreds of Venezuelan migrants who spent months in El Salvador's brutal CECOT prison after the Trump administration questionably — if not falsely — accused them of gang membership may soon join U.S. legal action.

COMMENTARY President Trump's specious assertion that trafficking deadly drugs into the U.S. constitutes war should also apply to deadly goods trafficked out of the U.S. — especially Florida guns.

As the U.S. military continues anti-narcotics operations in the Caribbean, those who follow Venezuela's Tren de Aragua gang warn that non-criminals like migrants and sex-trafficking victims could get caught in the crossfire.

COMMENTARY It's understandable to label violent drug cartels as terrorists — but that still doesn't make U.S. military attacks on them, like last week's in the Caribbean, justifiable under international law.