A federal agent reportedly offered to make Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s personal pilot wealthy if he secretly flew the socialist leader to a place where the U. S.

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;

Minutes producer Michael Karzis and correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi interviewed Venezuelans in a Caracas market, as tensions between the United States and the country's president Nicolás Maduro reached a boiling point.

Venezuela’s president took a swipe at Trump over escalating attacks on alleged drug-running boats in the Caribbean.

There was even a final machination aimed at rattling the Venezuelan president about the pilot’s true loyalties

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

President Trump used an expletive Friday to warn Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro against conflict with the U.S., as the administration escalates military action against drug trafficking in the

The CIA’s 1961 Bay of Pigs operation, designed to topple Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, was a notorious fiasco that embarrassed the new president, John F. Kennedy. It also led Castro to agree to the stationing of Soviet nuclear missiles on his soil to protect his regime from further attacks, resulting in the 1962 Cuban missile crisis.