The United Nations Human Rights Council accused Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro and other high-ranking Venezuelan leaders of crimes against humanity, the New York Times reported Wednesday. 
Democratic vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris’s unplanned visit to a Venezuelan restaurant last week ended with the restaurant owner saying that Harris was not welcome in the restaurant.
U.S. naval forces interdicted Iranian oil cargo headed to Venezuela in an unprecedented move, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. 
Sen. Rand Paul (R., Ky.) argued there is no difference between Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro and pro-democracy opposition leader Juan Guaido, who is recognized by the United States as the legitimate head of the country, but Trump Special Representative for Venezuela Elliott Abrams was there to set the record straight. 
American diplomat Bill Richardson returned to the United States unable to bring home eight American citizens imprisoned by Venezuela's Maduro regime, Reuters reported on Friday.
The U.S. has tightened restrictions on the Venezuelan oil trade, increasing economic pressure on the communist regime, according to a Monday Reuters report.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. prosecutors late on Wednesday filed a lawsuit to seize the gasoline aboard four tankers that Iran is shipping to Venezuela, the latest attempt by the Trump administration to increase economic pressure on the two U.S. foes. 
The Trump administration on Wednesday issued a fresh round of sanctions on several Iranian tanker captains who recently piloted a fuel shipment to Venezuela, in defiance of U.S. embargoes. 
DUBAI (Reuters) – Iran will continue fuel shipments to Venezuela if Caracas requests more supplies, the Iranian foreign ministry spokesman said on Monday, despite Washington’s criticism of the trade between the two nations, which are both under U.S. sanctions.
The United States "will not tolerate continued meddling" by Iran in Venezuelan affairs, a senior Trump administration official told the Washington Free Beacon, bringing nearer the possibility of a naval confrontation between the United States and Tehran over its shipment of oil to the heavily sanctioned Maduro regime. 