A federal agent had a daring plan: persuade Nicolas Maduro's chief pilot to surreptitiously divert the Venezuelan president’s plane to a place where U.S. authorities could nab the strongman.

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;

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,

A veteran U.S. law enforcement agent secretly tried to recruit Nicolas Maduro’s personal pilot to join a plot to capture the Venezuelan leader and deliver him into U.S. custody to face drug trafficking charges.

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

Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodriguez claimed the mercenary group was captured “with direct information of the American intelligence agency, CIA.”

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

In an interview that aired Sunday on CBS's 60 Minutes, Sen. Rick Scott advised the embattled Venezuelan leader to flee amid a massive U.S. military buildup in the Caribbean.

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.