Tensions remain high in Venezuela
Tensions are still high in Venezuela following the U.S. military operation that led to the capture of Nicolás Maduro and his wife. CBS News' Lilia Luciano has more details.
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Tensions are still high in Venezuela following the U.S. military operation that led to the capture of Nicolás Maduro and his wife. CBS News' Lilia Luciano has more details.
Following the raid in Venezuela that captured Nicolás Maduro, President Trump called for a U.S. takeover of Greenland and threatened U.S. action against Colombia and Cuba. Brett Bruen, president of The Global Situation Room Inc., joined CBS News with his thoughts.
Following the capture of former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, President Trump on Sunday said Colombia is "very sick too, run by a very sick man." CBS News' Lilia Luciano has more from the Colombia-Venezuela border.
Delcy Rodríguez was sworn in Monday as Venezuela's interim president two days after her predecessor, Nicolás Maduro, was captured in Caracas by American special forces. CBS News' Lilia Luciano has more on the current state of the Venezuelan government.
President Trump said that military action in Colombia against President Gustavo Petro "sounds good" to him following the U.S. operation in Venezuela that led to Nicolás Maduro's capture. CBS News' Lilia Luciano has more details.
Venezuelans are reacting as uncertainty looms about who will lead the country after Nicolás Maduro's capture. This comes as Colombia's border prepares for potential violence or an uptick in migration. CBS News' Lilia Luciano reports.
Police fire at truck backing into them at protest in California; CBS News speaks with Colombia's president about U.S. strikes on alleged drug boats and rising tensions.
The U.S. State Department said Clan del Golfo is a "violent and powerful criminal organization" that uses cocaine trafficking to fund violent activities.
President Trump announced Wednesday that the U.S. has seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela. Attorney General Pam Bondi released video, which shows U.S. law enforcement and military executing a seizure warrant. CBS News White House reporter Olivia Rinaldi has more.
Since the Trump administration began launching strikes against alleged drug vessels off the coasts of South America, killing at least 87 people, some fishermen in Santa Marta, Colombia, say their way of life is under attack. Lilia Luciano talks with relatives of Alejandro Carranza, who never returned from sea following a U.S. strike on September 15; Rear Admiral Carlos Oramas, commander of Colombia's naval forces in the Caribbean; and Michael Waldman, president of the Brennan Center for Justice, who questions the legality of the strikes.
The seizures come as Colombian President Gustavo Petro is calling on the U.S. to end strikes in the region against apparent drug-carrying vessels.
Colombian President Gustavo Petro is calling on the U.S. to end strikes in the region against apparent drug-carrying vessels. CBS News' Lilia Luciano reports from Barranquilla, Colombia.
The family of 42-year-old Alejandro Carranza Medina, who was killed on Sept. 15, insisted he was a fisherman just doing his job on the open sea.
President Trump on Tuesday held his ninth Cabinet meeting of his second term, discussing a number of different topics. CBS News' Weijia Jiang and Lilia Luciano report.
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said that lethal boat strikes against what he called "narco-terrorists" have "only just begun" during President Trump's 9th Cabinet meeting of his second term. CBS News senior national security correspondent Charlie D'Agata has more on his most recent comments about the strikes.
The White House confirmed and defended the U.S. military's second strike on an alleged drug boat on Sept. 2 near Venezuela. CBS News' Lilia Luciano spoke with fishermen in Colombia who expressed concern for their lives over the strikes.
Republicans and Democrats in Congress are expecting classified briefings on the strikes against suspected drug-carrying vessels near Venezuela and Colombia. CBS News' Caitlin Huey-Burns reports.
The White House is standing by Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth after a report emerged surrounding a Sept. 2 operation against an apparent drug-carrying vessel near Venezuela. CBS News' Olivia Rinaldi reports, and Lilia Luciano has more on the global reaction from Barranquilla, Colombia.
The cocaine, stored in dozens of 110-pound sacks inside a warehouse, was "camouflaged" in a mixture with plaster, officials said.
Dubbed the "holy grail of shipwrecks," the ship is believed to hold 11 million gold and silver coins, emeralds and other precious cargo.
The seizure came just days after the navy announced it had confiscated more than seven tons of drugs from two speedboats and a "narco sub."
The U.S. continues to increase pressure on Venezuela as it builds up military presence in the Caribbean and Puerto Rico. CBS News national security correspondent Charlie D'Agata has more details.
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced "Operation Southern Spear" in the Western Hemisphere as U.S. strikes continue in the region near Colombia and Venezuela. CBS News' Eleanor Watson reports.
The USS Gerald R. Ford has crossed into the Southern Command (SOUTHCOM), closer to Venezuela and the waters where the U.S. has been carrying out strikes against alleged drug-carrying vessels. CBS News' Charlie D'Agata reports.
The Trump administration has accused Gustavo Petro of enabling drug cartels and placed him on the U.S. Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctions list.