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![<p><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW19585078 BCX0">President Donald Trump speaks to a joint session of Congress</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW19585078 BCX0">, </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW19585078 BCX0">March 4, 2025.</span></p>]()
By James M. Lindsay![Women hold candles during a vigil to honor those killed on January 3 during the U.S. operation to capture Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores, at Bolivar Square in Caracas, Venezuela, January 22, 2026.]()
By Caroline Hubbard![<p>A ship creates an artificial island for a coastal port for offshore oil production at the mouth of the Demerara River in Georgetown, Guyana, April 12, 2023.</p>]()
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<div>Venezuelan interim President Delcy Rodríguez holds the new oil reform during an event at Miraflores Palace in Caracas, January 29, 2026.</div>
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<div class="p-rich_text_section">People walk past a painting of an oil pump on Venezuela<span style="font-weight: 400;">’</span>s national flag, in Caracas, Venezuela, January 13, 2026.</div>
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By Alice C. Hill, Lindsay Iversen and David M. Hart![<p>A U.S. Coast Guard ship accompanies the Marinera oil tanker on January 14, 2026, in Burghead, Scotland. </p>]()
By Stephen Sestanovich![<p>The final count of the Senate vote on S.J. Resolution 98 under the War Powers Act on January 8, 2026.</p>]()
By James M. Lindsay![<p>Protesters gather in front of the U.S. consulate during a demonstration in Nuuk, Greenland, March 15, 2025.</p>]()
By Michael Froman![<p>Venezuela’s interim president, Delcy Rodríguez, walks with other leaders at the National Assembly in Caracas on January 5.</p>]()
By Mariel Ferragamo![<p>U.S. President Donald Trump speaks as senior officials look on during a press conference following a U.S. strike on Venezuela where President Nicolas Maduro was captured, from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida, on January 3, 2026.</p>]()
By Charles A. Kupchan![<p>Panamanian General Manuel Noriega addresses a group at the International Conference against U.S. Intervention on November 29, 1989.</p>]()
By David J. Scheffer![<p>President Donald Trump sitting next to CIA Director John Ratcliffe and U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio as they watch the U.S. military operation in Venezuela from Trump’s Mar a Lago resort, in Palm Beach, Florida, on January 3, 2026.</p>]()
By Shannon K. O'Neil, Elliott Abrams, Max Boot and Roxanna Vigil- By Elliott Abrams
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![<p>Members of the National Anti-Extortion and Kidnapping Command take part in a rally against a possible escalation of U.S. actions toward the country, in Caracas, Venezuela, November 25, 2025.</p>]()
By Roxanna Vigil![<p>People watch the USS Gravely, a U.S. Navy warship, departing the Port of Spain on October 30, 2025. </p>]()
By Will Merrow- By Elliott Abrams
![<p>President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela greets his supporters during a rally to commemorate Indigenous Resistance Day on October 12, 2025 in Caracas, Venezuela.</p>]()
By Michael Froman![<p>Aerial view showing migrants walking through the jungle near Bajo Chiquito village, the first border control of the Darién Province in Panama, September 22, 2023.</p>]()
By Sam Vigersky![<p>U.S. President Donald Trump, accompanied by U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, speaks with the media while signing an executive order in the Oval Office, at the White House in Washington, D.C., on September 5.</p>]()
By Matthew C. Waxman
