Why did three American ex-Special Forces soldiers try to overthrow the Venezuelan government — and how did the plan go so wrong?| Rolling Stone
Donald Trump’s head of security is a former NYPD detective with a penchant for getting physical with the billionaire’s adversaries — including WWE’s Vince McMahon and Univis…| New York Daily News
Celebrations in honor of Bolivar's birthday come in the middle of Hugo Chavez's reelection campaign, and include the opening of a personal mausoleum, writes a guest blogger.| The Christian Science Monitor
A failed coup in Venezuela - a story of hubris, incompetence, and treachery| BBC
The U.S. has deployed destroyers, Marines, spy planes, and a submarine off Venezuela in one of its largest Caribbean operations in decades. Officially a counter-narcotics mission, the build-up is widely seen as a high-stakes strategy to pressure Nicolás Maduro, test Russia, China, and Iran, and reassert U.S. dominance in the Western Hemisphere.| Defence Security Asia