Ex-Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro spent the night in jail after he pleaded not guilty to drug trafficking charges — as questions linger about President Trump's plans for Venezuela.

It comes after Nicolás Maduro and his wife were seized from Caracas and flown to the US. They have since appeared at a New York court.

President Trump ordered U.S. forces to strike Venezuela and seize Nicolás Maduro, escalating U.S. military involvement and signaling a tougher approach toward Latin America.

In 2017, as political outsider Donald Trump headed to Washington, Delcy Rodríguez spotted an opening. Then Venezuela's foreign minister, Rodríguez directed Citgo — a subsidiary of the state oil company — to make a $500,

Russian officials indicated in 2019 that the Kremlin would be willing to back off from its support for Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela in exchange for a free hand in Ukraine, according to Fiona Hill, an adviser to President Donald Trump at the time.

Seemingly contradictory statements from Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio have suggested at once that the U.S. now controls the levers of Venezuelan power or that the U.S. has no intention of assuming day-to-day governance.

President Donald Trump says the US oil industry could be "up and running" with increased operations in Venezuela within 18 months, after a surprise military operation removed President Nicolás Maduro from power.

The president says Venezuela will not hold new elections in the next 30 days, suggesting the United States will be involved in the sovereign Latin American nation for the foreseeable future.

The outgoing congresswoman decried the foreign intervention as exactly the kind of "globalist," war-driven and "regime change" agenda she didn't vote for.

The U.S. striking Venezuela and capturing its leader has practical implications for China, Russia, Iran and Cuba, and it also sends messages to each nation.

President Donald Trump is huddling with House Republicans at the Trump Kennedy Center on Tuesday as Congress kicks off its second half of the term.