As the U.S. military presence near Venezuela increases, 60 Minutes traveled to the South American nation for a rare look at what life is like under its embattled dictator, Nicolás Maduro. "Instability isn't just an architectural feature in Venezuela;

Venezuela's President Nicolás Maduro claims the U.S. is waging a war against him as the world's largest warship nears the country

Several U.S military bombers have flown from the continental U.S. down to the Caribbean in recent days. Flight tracking data showed two B-1 aircraft left Dyess Air Force Base in Texas on Thursday and approached Venezuela's coast. A U.S. official told the Associated Press that B-1s had carried out a training flight in the Caribbean.

Venezuela's President Nicolás Maduro says the U.S. is waging a war against his country as the world's largest warship nears.

The Trump administration is accumulating a massive U.S. military presence in the Caribbean, deploying warships, surveillance planes and fighter aircraft as it continues to blow up alleged drug-trafficking boats in the waters around South America.

The government of Venezuela’s socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro claimed in a Sunday statement that it captured an alleged “mercenary group” with “direct information” from the CIA. The statement from Maduro’s Vice President Delcy Rodríguez accused the alleged group of planning a “false flag operation” from around nearby Trinidad and Tobago and accused the small island nation of performing ongoing “military exercises” under “the coordination,

Venezuela has proposed that all of its gas agreements with Trinidad and Tobago be immediately suspended. The proposal was last night approved by Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro, who confirmed this in an interview on Venezuelan State television.

Officials believe Trump’s ‘war on narco-terrorism’ is actually a push to remove Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro