The Venezuelan military will not accept a president imposed by “dark interests,” Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino said after Washington and a number of its allies recognized a lawmaker as the new leader in Caracas. The army will continue to defend the constitution and national sovereignty, Padrino said on Wednesday afternoon, hours after opposition lawmaker Juan Guaido was proclaimed interim... 

With 2018 being only the second year in the past century not to see a nation’s government toppled in a coup d’état, a grimly worded new Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) report circulating in the Kremlin today states that 2019 will not be listed among them—and is due to President Trump and his nationalist-populist allies having just launched a coup against the leftist-socialist nation of Venezuela—that... 

U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday threatened military intervention in Venezuela, a surprise escalation of Washington’s response to Venezuela’s political crisis that Caracas disparaged as “craziness.” Venezuela has appeared to slide toward a more volatile stage of unrest in recent days, with anti-government forces looting weapons from a military base after a new legislative body usurped...