Venezuelan Crude Exports Double After Maduro Arrest
Venezuela experienced a sharp increase in its oil exports in February following the arrest of deposed socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro, Bloomberg News reported on Monday.

Venezuela experienced a sharp increase in its oil exports in February following the arrest of deposed socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro, Bloomberg News reported on Monday.

President Donald Trump touted the results of his energy policies in Corpus Christi, Texas, on Friday, including falling gas prices, increased oil and natural gas production, and rising liquified natural gas exports.

A recent survey conducted by AtlasIntel found that U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio ranks as the most liked politician in Venezuela.

“Interim president” of Venezuela Delcy Rodríguez, who has run the country since the American arrest of deposed dictator Nicolás Maduro in January, referred to President Donald Trump as a “friend” and “partner” during an event next to Maduro’s son, lawmaker Nicolás Maduro Guerra.

American lawyer Barry Pollack, currently representing Nicolás Maduro, on Thursday asked a federal Judge to throw out the drug trafficking case against the deposed socialist dictator alleging the Trump administration is “blocking” the Venezuelan regime from paying Maduro’s legal fees.

Venezuelan Attorney General Tarek William Saab on Wednesday resigned from his position after almost nine years — only for him to be appointed as interim Ombudsman moments later after Ombudsman Alfredo Ruiz also resigned on the same day.

American lawyer Barry Pollack accused the Trump administration of not allowing the Venezuelan government to fund his representation of deposed socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro, a report Wednesday indicated.

Venezuela’s socialist regime this week announced the start of a construction project to “transform” the Helicoide (“The Helix”), its largest and most infamous torture complex, into a “cultural center.”

During his 2026 State of the Union address on Tuesday night, President Donald Trump discussed the incredible raid that brought narco-terrorist dictator Hugo Chavez to justice — and he hosted a surprise reunion between a political prisoner of the Chavez regime and his niece.

President Donald Trump announced during his annual State of the Union address on Tuesday night that the United States has received 80 million barrels of oil from the socialist rogue state of Venezuela this year, a development made possible by the arrest of its dictator, Nicolás Maduro.

The Reuters news agency reported this weekend, citing 11 different anonymous sources, that the Cuban Communist Party has begun withdrawing its agents in the country, including both “security advisers” and slave doctors from Venezuela.

Qatari Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani on Wednesday met with Venezuela’s “acting President” Delcy Rodríguez and other members of the Venezuelan socialist regime in Caracas.

President Donald Trump and Venezuela’s deposed socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro became unwitting stars in several Carnival parade festivities this year.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov complained on Wednesday that America is “discriminating” against other countries in its handling of Venezuela’s oil industry following the arrest of narco-terrorist socialist dictator Nicolas Maduro.

President of Argentina Javier Milei used a Tuesday video message to applaud President Donald Trump as an “example of courage and leadership” after the capture of Venezuela’s socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro.
Brazil’s socialist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said that Nicolás Maduro’s freedom is “not a main concern of his.”

The success of the United States’s three-phase plan toward stabilizing Venezuela following the capture of Nicolás Maduro depends on neutralizing Iran’s military presence in the country as well as Russia and China’s encroachment, the Center for a Secure Free Society (SFS) warned this week.

Colombian businessman Alex Saab, widely considered to be Nicolás Maduro’s top money launderer, was arrested in Caracas on Wednesday as part of a join U.S. – Venezuela operation, several outlets reported.

“Acting President” of Venezuela Delcy Rodríguez on Tuesday night said the country is calm a month after U.S. forces captured socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro.

Venezuela on Tuesday marked the first month since the United States’s unprecedented January 3 law enforcement operation in Caracas that resulted in the arrest of socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores.

Former NBA star Enes Kanter Freedom, who the league sidelined after he condemned China’s ongoing genocide in East Turkistan, confirmed to Breitbart News this week that he continues to face persecution from the government of his native Turkey and urged Americans to “speak up and act” against repressors.

Strongman Diosdado Cabello branded the Venezuelan Catholic Church “fascists in cassocks” for not condemning the capture of Nicolás Maduro.

Communist lawmakers from Russia’s State Duma established a committee seeking to achieve the “liberation” of Venezuela’s deposed socialist dictator, Nicolás Maduro, and his wife, Cilia Flores, the Russian embassy in Caracas announced Wednesday.

On Wednesday’s broadcast of Newsmax TV’s “Rob Schmitt Tonight,” Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) discussed the ouster of Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela and stated that “if you talk to Bolsonaro, he’d probably say da Silva is an illegitimate leader in Brazil.

The Chinese Foreign Ministry complained on Tuesday that the American mission to arrest deposed Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro was “bullying,” but offered no substantive response when asked what it was doing to aid the remains of the socialist regime.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio told U.S. Senators that America is prepared to use force to ensure Venezuela’s “acting President” Delcy Rodríguez cooperates, Bloomberg reported.

“Acting President” of Venezuela Delcy Rodríguez on Monday responded to “irrelevant and offensive statements” from Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent by asserting Venezuela “does not accept orders from any external factor.”

CIA Director John Ratcliffe has emerged as President Donald Trump’s “quiet hammer,” a source close to the White House told Breitbart News for an in-depth profile of the world’s premier spy agency in the first year back in office for Trump.

Venezuelan ex-political prisoner Víctor Borjas surprised his two daughters – whom he had not seen in over a year – by wearing a teddy bear costume in a heartfelt Sunday reunion after his release from unjust imprisonment.

Russia’s ambassador to Caracas Sergey Melik-Bagdasarov on Sunday said that he believes Venezuela’s deposed socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro was “betrayed,” allowing U.S. forces to capture him and his wife Cilia Flores.

“Acting President” of Venezuela Delcy Rodríguez said she has had “enough” of Washington’s orders during a Sunday state media broadcast.

President Donald Trump has revealed more information about the U.S. capture of Venezuela’s now former socialist dictator, Nicolas Maduro.

On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher stated that while he doesn’t love everything about the ouster of Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela, he doesn’t hate all of it and he doesn’t dislike the ousting of a dictator

Venezuelan Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino López on Thursday claimed that Venezuela was allegedly a “testing ground for the use of unknown weapons” during the U.S. operation to capture Nicolás Maduro.

Venezuelan socialist strongman Diosdado Cabello dared “anyone” to find evidence of his alleged conversations with the United States.

The Venezuelan non-government organization Foro Penal on Monday announced that, based on information confirmed by the group, Venezuela’s socialist regime still holds 777 political prisoners as of Monday night.

For decades, the brutal regime of dictator Nicolás Maduro threatened the United States and engaged in narco-terrorism with the assurance that its allies in Russia would have its back.

Cuba’s communist Castro regime is seeking oil from Africa to offset the oil it is no longer getting from Venezuela’s socialist regime thanks to President Donald Trump’s campaign pressure, the independent outlet 14 y Medio reported on Monday.

Venezuela’s socialist regime on Sunday rejected the “malicious information” allegedly contained in a report published by Reuters claiming that the Trump administration was in discussions with strongman Diosdado Cabello months before the U.S. law enforcement operation to arrest Nicolás Maduro.

Cuba’s National Security Council held a meeting this weekend to discuss what state propaganda described as “plans and measures to take a step toward a State of War,” a day after welcoming the remains of 32 of its soldiers killed in an American operation to arrest deposed Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro.
