Under international law, Venezuela has control over its own oil — but its efforts to nationalize its oil industry in 2007 did result in arbitration.

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — President Donald Trump on Monday delivered a new warning to Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro as the U.S. Coast Guard steps up efforts to interdict oil tankers in the Caribbean Sea as part of the Republican administration’s escalating pressure campaign on the government in Caracas.

The United States under President Donald Trump appears to be readying for war in Venezuela or at least is seeking to depose leader Nicolás Maduro. But it remains unclear why, exactly, the White House has decided to take aim at the regime in Caracas.

Fundamental to Trump's 'Make America Great Again' ethos was his promise to end 'forever wars.' Yet he's pushing the U.S. closer to war with Venezuela.

Venezuela's President Nicolás Maduro has said that President Donald Trump's threats against his nation are "simply a warmongering and colonialist pretense." Speaking in Caracas on Wednesday, he said that Trump's aim was regime change to impose a "puppet government that wouldn't last 47 hours,

President Donald Trump said Thursday that he is leaving the possibility of war with Venezuela on the table. "I don't rule it out, no," he told NBC News' Kristen Welker in a phone interview. It comes after the president ordered a "blockade" of sanctioned oil tankers coming and going from Venezuela.

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump told NBC News that war remains possible with Venezuela, a country whose leadership he labeled a terrorist regime and which he has targeted militarily because of alleged drug smuggling. "I don’t rule it out, no," Trump told NBC on Dec. 18 in a phone interview.

Senator Rick Scott, a Florida Republican, wrote to X: “Maduro is not the president of Venezuela, he’s a narcoterrorist. @POTUS is right to take action to stop him and his thugs from sending deadly drugs into our country to kill our kids and grandkids.”

President Donald Trump's "America First" supporters don't appear to be breaking with him on Venezuela, but analysts say following through on land strikes could change that.

Lawmakers attend an extraordinary session to discuss a bill opposing measures by U.S. President Donald Trump that restrict sanctioned oil tankers from entering and leaving Venezuela, in Caracas, Venezuela,