Diosdado Cabello Rondón is a Venezuelan politician and current member of the National Assembly of Venezuela,where he previously served as Speaker. He is also an active member of the Venezuelan armed forces,with the rank of captain.
Anne Woods Patterson is an American diplomat and career Foreign Service Officer. She served as the Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs from 2013 to 2017. She previously served as United States Ambassador to Egypt until 2013 and as United States Ambassador to Pakistan from July 2007 to October 2010.
United States–Venezuela relations have traditionally been characterized by an important trade and investment relationship as well as cooperation in combating the production and transit of illegal drugs.
María Corina Machado Parisca is a Venezuelan opposition politician who served as an elected member of the National Assembly of Venezuela from 2011 to 2014. Machado was the founder and former leader of the Venezuelan volunteer civil organization Súmate,alongside Alejandro Plaz. In 2018,she was listed as one of BBC's 100 Women.
Thomas Alfred Shannon Jr. is an American diplomat who served as Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs from 2016 to 2018. In early 2017,Shannon served as acting United States Secretary of State until President Donald Trump's nominee,Rex Tillerson,was confirmed. He was also acting Deputy Secretary of State of the United States until the Senate confirmed President Trump's nominee,John J. Sullivan.
Nicolás Maduro Moros is a Venezuelan politician who has served as the president of Venezuela since 2013.
Peter Michael McKinley is an American diplomat. A career Foreign Service Officer,McKinley served as U.S. Ambassador to Peru (2007–2010),Colombia (2010–2013),Afghanistan (2015–2016),and Brazil (2017–2018),and then as Senior Adviser to the U.S. Secretary of State (2018–2019).
Mexico–Venezuela relations are foreign relations between Mexico and Venezuela. Both nations are members of the Association of Caribbean States,Community of Latin American and Caribbean States,Latin American Integration Association,Organization of American States,Organization of Ibero-American States and the United Nations.
Juan Requesens Martínez is a deputy of the Venezuelan National Assembly,elected in 2015 and sworn in on 5 January 2016. He was a student leader at the Central University of Venezuela (UCV),and a leader of student opposition protesters during the 2014 Venezuelan protests. He led marches opposing the Government of Venezuela under President Nicolás Maduro,seeking "to turn the student rebellion into a broader social movement".
The Embassy of the United States in Caracas is a United States embassy that represents the United States in Caracas,Venezuela. The embassy provides assistance to American citizens and residents who live in Venezuela and issues visas to foreign nationals,who are Venezuelan and legal residents in Venezuela,who wish to visit or immigrate to the United States.
On 29 March 2017,the Supreme Tribunal of Justice (TSJ) of Venezuela took over legislative powers of the National Assembly. The Tribunal,mainly supporters of President Nicolás Maduro,also restricted the immunity granted to the Assembly's members,who mostly belonged to the opposition.
On 5 July 2017,colectivos and supporters of President Nicolás Maduro stormed the Palacio Federal Legislativo on the Independence Day of Venezuela,assaulting many members of the opposition-led National Assembly. At least 12 opposition legislators and their staff were injured as a result of the attack.
Todd D. Robinson is an American diplomat who has served as Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs since September 2021. He previously served as the charge d'affaires of the U.S. embassy in Venezuela from December 2017 until being expelled in May 2018,and the U.S. ambassador to Guatemala from 2014 to 2017.
Juan Gerardo GuaidóMárquez is a Venezuelan opposition politician. He belonged to the social-democratic party Popular Will,and was a federal deputy to the National Assembly representing the state of Vargas. On 23 January 2019,Guaidóand the National Assembly declared that he was acting president of Venezuela,starting the Venezuelan presidential crisis by challenging Nicolás Maduro's presidency. In December 2022,opposition parties voted to dismiss Guaidóas interim president,choosing Dinorah Figuera as a successor on 5 January 2023 and ending Guaidó's presidential claim.
The Venezuelan presidential crisis was a political crisis concerning the leadership and the legitimate president of Venezuela between 2019 and 2023,with the nation and the world divided in support for Nicolás Maduro or Juan Guaidó.
During the Venezuelan presidential crisis concerning the legitimate President of Venezuela,reactions and responses to the crisis were greatly divided.
North Korea–Venezuela relations are relations between the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. Venezuela is one of the five countries in Latin America that has an embassy of North Korea along with Brazil,Colombia,Cuba and Nicaragua. However,Venezuela is one of the only countries in the world that has a good relationship with both North and South Korea.
Operación Alacrán,also known as CLAP affair or PSUV-CLAP faction,is the name given to a corruption plot which was denounced in 2019 by the members of the National Assembly of Venezuela. It would have sought to avoid the re-election of Juan Guaidóon 5 January 2020 as President of the Assembly,by obtaining the support of opposing legislators in exchange for millions of dollars. Legislators would have been asked to vote against Guaidó,or to not attend the election and thereby break the necessary quorum.
Operation Gideon was an unsuccessful attempt by the Active Coalition of the Venezuelan International Reserve,Venezuelan dissidents,and a private security firm,Jordan Goudreau's Silvercorp USA,to infiltrate Venezuela by sea and remove Nicolás Maduro from power. The plan executed from 3 to 4 May 2020 was for expatriate Venezuelan military living in Colombia to enter the country by boat at Macuto,take control of an airfield,capture Maduro and other high-level figures in his administration,and expel them from the country.
