Following the extraction of Nicolás Maduro, President Trump warns Mexican cartels are 'next,' signalling a pivot toward unilateral land strikes.

Criminal networks including Tren de Aragua cartel and ELN guerrillas exploit power vacuum in Venezuela after former President Nicolás Maduro's arrest, threatening transition efforts.

Days after the American military operation that seized Venezuelan dictator Maduro, the South American nation is still gripped by uncertainty and fear as a hardline regime loyalist takes power. Armed gangs terrorize neighborhoods, and Caracas is under heavy Maduro-regime surveillance.

Despite Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro’s ouster, his regime still remains in power in some sectors of the country. This is because of the Colectivos, pro-Maduro paramilitary groups […]

The unrest follows the January 3 overnight raid in Caracas in which Maduro, 63, and his wife, Cilia Flores, 69, were captured by an elite US military unit and brought to the United States. Maduro appeared in court on Monday for his arraignment hearing, where he said he was “a president and prisoner of war”.

Because if you served in any high-ranking capacity in the government dealing with the armed forces, you would know of the corruption within the military machine. And this is not solely a “Malaysian” issue.

A veteran reporter with extensive contacts in Venezuela said the situation on the ground since the U.S. invasion has quickly spiraled out of control. Armed paramilitary groups aligned with the government are cracking down on journalists under a state of emergency declared Monday,