A Miami-based professor is warning that heightened deportation efforts under potential Trump administration policies could impact over a million immigrants in Florida alone, with local communities and families facing serious consequences.

In a bizarre turn, a 52-year-old Colombian businessman with friends in high places went from sleeping in a federal prison in Miami to recently celebrating his appointment as Venezuela’s new minister of industry and national production.

It doesn’t feel like Christmas in Venezuela.

Officials say that France’s TotalEnergies and U.S. hydrocarbon company APA Corp. plan to invest $10 billion to extract oil off the coast of Suriname in a historic investment for the South American country.

On Saturday night, during a televised speech at an event related to the disputed presidential election in Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro stood next to several men who wore traditional Arab headdresses known as keffiyeh or hatta.

A 39-year-old man in Miami-Dade County stands accused Wednesday of money laundering millions as part of a scheme with links to Venezuela, Cuba, Panama, and Spain.

Senator Rick Scott and Senator Marco Rubio introduce legislation to increase the reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of Nicolás Maduro.

Venezuela’s government has announced the arrest of a fourth U.S. citizen in connection with an alleged plot to kill President Nicolás Maduro.

Venezuela’s main opposition coalition has urged the U.S. to cancel licenses for Chevron and other energy companies.

A federal judge sentenced two Colombian men on Thursday in Miami over a car bomb explosion that injured 47 people — including three U.S. Army soldiers in Colombia, near the border with Venezuela.

The U.S. has seized a plane belonging to Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and brought it to a South Florida airport.

Taiwan beat Venezuela 4-1 in the championship game of the international bracket at the Little League World Series.

Venezuela’s government will order former opposition candidate Edmundo González to provide sworn testimony in an ongoing investigation into what it considers attempts to spread panic in the South American country by contesting the results of last month’s presidential election.

Despite U.S. sanctions, prosecutors say Venezuela’s state-owned oil company accessed aircraft parts from the U.S. such as bearings, joint slide flexes, and actuators for its aircraft fleet.

Venezuelans continued protests on Saturday at home and around the world. Thousands were at a rally at the FPL Solar Amphitheater, at Bayfront Park, in downtown Miami.

The Venezuelan flag and “Freedom! Freedom! Freedom!” chants took over Bayfront Park’s amphitheater on Saturday in Downtown Miami.

Human rights activists reported Friday that they had records of 79 teenagers who were arrested after protests erupted Monday in reaction to the results of the July 28 presidential election.

The organizers of a protest in solidarity with the opposition in Venezuela on Saturday in Downtown Miami announced there are free parking options.

The Justice First, or Primero Justicia, an opposition political party in Venezuela, reported more arbitrary detentions on Friday.

Nicolas Maduro reports 1,200 arrests during protests and threatens to arrest 1,000 more. Nongovernmental organizations report arbitrary arrests, executions, and raids by police and military forces.

The Padrino family appears to embody the divisions of many Venezuelans and Venezuelan Americans during the ongoing political crisis.

Nicolás Maduro and his ruling socialist party continued to attack and criminalize dissent Wednesday amid growing calls for transparency after the election on Sunday.

Venezuela is tense.

The Biden administration shared their concerns Tuesday over the recent Venezuelan presidential election results, questioning the legitimacy of incumbent Nicolas Maduro’s declared victory and calling for transparency from Venezuela’s electoral authorities.

South Florida leaders and residents continued their demand for change at a press conference Tuesday after questioning the legitimacy of Venezuelan President Maduro’s purported re-election.

President Joe Biden left the White House Monday facing questions on various issues, including the contentious election results in Venezuela.

Calls for freedom echoed across South Florida on Monday as Venezuelan expatriates reacted to the contentious election results.

As thousands of people demonstrate across Venezuela, opposition candidate Edmundo González has announced that his campaign has the proof it needs to show he won the country’s disputed election whose victory electoral authorities handed to President Nicolás Maduro.

Venezuelans will be heading to the polls this weekend in a tensely awaited presidential election.

Maria Corina Machado has walked highways, sought shelter in supporters’ homes and seen her closest collaborators detained and persecuted as she crisscrossed Venezuela ahead of the upcoming presidential election.

Unlike previous elections in Venezuela, thousands of supporters of the typically fractured opposition have agreed to organize, mobilize and support voters during the highly anticipated July 28 presidential contest.

Officials in Venezuela have arrested the head of security for the country’s top opposition leader, a little more than a week before President Nicolás Maduro faces a tough reelection.

The Biden administration is sanctioning Venezuela’s Tren de Aragua gang as a transnational criminal organization and is offering a $12 million reward for the arrest of the leaders.

Venezuela’s government faces its toughest electoral test in decades in a July 28 presidential election, which could give President Nicolas Maduro another six years in power or end the self-described socialist policies that once successfully boosted anti-poverty programs but whose sustained mismanagement later pushed the country into an ongoing economic crisis.

A relentless heat wave continues to bake most of the U.S., with numerous areas expected to see record-breaking temperatures.

Venezuela’s ruling party is feeling its decades-long grip on power under threat.

A Miami contract pilot known as “Jagger” flew a private jet registered in the U.S. from the Dominican Republic to Venezuela where he expected men to load about 1,700 kilograms of cocaine from Colombia.

A cluster of tarp-covered tents in a grassy lot south of Seattle highlights the strain facing many communities are facing.

Two Citgo oil executives detained for nearly five years in Venezuela have sued their former employer for more than $400 million.

Six planets will line up in the early morning sky on June 3, but most won't be visible to the naked eye.

A West Park woman is facing an aggravated child abuse charge after deputies accused her of “smearing feces all over her son” as a “form of punishment” for soiling himself, according to court documents obtained by Local 10 News on Thursday.

The Biden administration has reimposed crushing oil sanctions on Venezuela in a rebuke to President Nicolas Maduro’s attempts to consolidate his rule just six months after the U.S. eased restrictions in a bid to support now fading hopes for a democratic opening in the OPEC nation.

A former Venezuelan National Guard major pretended to be involved in the financing of food imports when in reality he was part of a $1.7 million fraud, according to U.S. prosecutors.

A proposal meant to guide electoral authorities in setting the date for Venezuela’s presidential election includes more than 20 potential options ranging from as soon as mid-April through early December.

The collapse of an illegally operated gold mine in a remote area of central Venezuela has laid bare the sense of abandonment that plagues communities across the South American country.

Officials in Venezuela say at least 14 people are confirmed dead from the collapse of an illegally operated open-pit gold mine in central Venezuela.

Luis Garcia-Blanco, a Cuban who had arrived in Miami on the Mariel boatlift, was accused of shooting his ex-girlfriend Maricel Gutierrez in the head with a machine gun in 1980, in Miami-Dade. He had allegedly also cut off her finger and kept it in a Bible.

Representatives of several human rights organizations have held a press conference demanding the immediate release of a prominent attorney and activist detained last week.

The U.S. government has pulled back part of the sanctions relief it granted Venezuela last year, following through on its threat after the South American country’s highest court blocked the presidential candidacy of an opposition leader.

Venezuela’s vicious Tren De Aragua street gang — known for its brutality in dominating narcotrafficking and black markets — is operating in Miami-Dade County, according to federal and local law enforcement. A recent murder is evidence that the gang used women as a lure and was working out of hotels in Medley and near the Miami International Airport.

A top U.S. delegation is meeting with Mexico's president about a surge of migrants reaching the U.S. southwestern border.

Stephanie Cristella, who lives in Florida’s Orlando area, said she is hoping her cousin will make it to his mother’s house in Boise, Idaho — in time for Christmas.

The United States agreed to free a close ally of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in exchange for 10 Americans imprisoned there.

A US-Venezuela prisoner swap was ongoing on Wednesday between Nicolas Maduro, who is wanted for narcotrafficking in the U.S., and President Joe Biden’s administration.

U.S. Sen. Rick Scott was in Miami-Dade County’s Sweetwater on Friday when he had a public conversation on the phone with María Corina Machado, a lead figure of the Venezuelan opposition.

Two suspects in the kidnapping of the parents of Liverpool soccer player Luis Díaz were ordered sent to prison by a judge, according to Colombia’s Prosecutor’s Office, which accused one of the men of being the link to a person close to the family who provided information about the victims.

U.S. authorities say illegal border crossings from Mexico fell 14% in October from a month earlier, following three months of big increases.

Prosecutors played wiretaps in federal court in New York showing a federal narcotics agent leaked sensitive case information about one of Washington’s top criminal targets in Venezuela — Alex Saab.

Volunteers, churches and advocacy groups are scrambling to find indoor shelter for migrants in Chicago as the temperatures drop.

Venezuela’s chief prosecutor has announced a criminal investigation into organizers of a presidential primary election held over the weekend.

Some South Florida residents cast their ballots on Sunday in the election taking place thousands of miles away.

Venezuelans became the largest nationality arrested for illegally crossing the U.S. border last month, replacing Mexicans for the first time on record.

A faction of Venezuela’s opposition is set to pick its candidate for next year’s presidential election.

Some migrants say the U.S. government’s plan to restart deportation flights to Venezuela in the coming days won't stop them from continuing their journeys.

Authorities say 16 migrants from Venezuela and Haiti are dead following a bus crash in southern Mexico.

Venezuelan sisters will be looking to make a deal with famous entrepreneurs on Shark Tank this Friday.

Rain-swollen rivers only briefly slowed the otherwise uninterrupted flow of migrants through this jungle-covered border of Colombia and Panama and by midweek another 2,000 bedraggled migrants stumbled out of the Darien jungle.

The former Venezuelan opposition leader, Juan Guaidó, has accepted an invitation from Florida International University to become a visiting professor.

Sigmund Garcia, who was born in Venezuela and moved to South Florida about a year ago, said in Spanish that he lives with the fear of deportation.

China has announced that it’s upgrading its diplomatic ties with Venezuela to an “all weather” partnership.

Nearly 1,600 migrants seeking asylum in the U.S. will be relocated from Chicago police stations to winterized camps with massive tents under a plan by Mayor Brandon Johnson.

Japan is one win away from getting back to the Olympics.

Coming back to the Little League World Series after losing last year’s title game, Curacao doesn’t just want to be good for its size.

A bus carrying mostly Venezuelan migrants has crashed into a freight truck in central Mexico, killing at least 15 people and injuring 36.

The fishermen of Lake Maracaibo say they face their worst nightmare everyday as fish stocks decline and pollution degrades the health of this great freshwater lake, one of the oldest — and largest — in the world.

Odamyis Gomez, a married mother of two in Cuba, said she dreams of a family reunion in Miami-Dade County, and she had put her hope on President Joe Biden’s parole program. But in January, a group of 20 states challenged the case-by-case basis program to help Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans.

María Corina Machado, one of the few opposition leaders left in Venezuela, won’t be able to hold public office for 15 years, the troubled country’s officials announced on Friday.

Colombia’s government and the country’s largest remaining guerrilla group declared a cease-fire agreement during talks in Cuba, the latest attempt to resolve a conflict dating back to the 1960s.

Leaders of Venezuela’s fractured opposition are shaking voters’ hands and promising — yet again — that they will defeat President Nicolás Maduro at the ballot box.

A recent increase of migrants in the Brownsville, Texas, area of the U.S.-Mexico border is highlighting immigration challenges as the U.S. prepares for the end of a coronavirus pandemic-era policy that allowed it to quickly expel many migrants.

A dozen senators are making a bipartisan appeal to President Joe Biden to reinvigorate the power of U.S. authorities to seize Iranian oil assets.

Juan Guaidó said Venezuela’s regime deals with the opposition with torture, murder, exile, threats, and division — just as dictators in Nicaragua and Cuba do.

Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó is holding a news conference Thursday in Coral Gables, days after he was threatened with deportation in Colombia.

Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó says he was expelled from Colombia hours after he crossed the border from Venezuela to try to meet with some participants at Tuesday’s international conference to discuss his country’s political crisis.”

Award-winning Bolivian journalist Harold Olmos, who led Associated Press operations in Venezuela and Brazil, has died at age 78.

There's a special chance this week to see five planets lined up in the night sky.

Houston Astros star Jose Altuve has had surgery on his broken right thumb.

Houston Astros second baseman Jose Altuve seems headed for a lengthy stint on the injured list after being hit on the hand with a pitch while playing for Venezuela in the World Baseball Classic.

Jose Altuve left Venezuela’s 9-7 quarterfinal loss to the United States with a possible broken right thumb after getting hit by a pitch.

Cuba advanced to the World Baseball Classic semifinals for the first time since 2006 with a 4-3 win over Australia as Alfredo Despaigne hit a tiebreaking sacrifice fly and Yoelkis Guibert followed with a two-run single in three-run fifth inning.

Eugenio Suárez and Anthony Santander had two hits each as Venezuela beat Nicaragua 4-1 and improved to 3-0 in the World Baseball Classic.

Colombia’s government and its largest remaining rebel group have met in Mexico City to resume peace talks.

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said on Monday in Miami-Dade County that the new program for refugees and asylum seekers from Cuba, Haiti, Venezuela, and Nicaragua is already working.

The Biden administration says U.S. authorities have seen a 97% decline in illegal border crossings by migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela since Mexico began accepting those expelled under a public health order.

While the Venezuelan diaspora in South Florida agrees that Nicolás Maduro needs to be removed from power, they don’t all have hope for the future of the opposition and the 2024 presidential elections.

People worldwide are more gloomy about their economic prospects than ever before and trust business far more than governments, nonprofits and the media in an increasingly divided world.

As President Joe Biden announced the recent expansion of an immigration policy for migrants coming from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela, sponsors in South Florida are stepping up to help people who might not even know about the program.

After President Joe Biden announced nearly one week ago that he is expanding a program to accept up to 30,000 migrants per month from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela, many South Floridians are already benefitting.

Venezuelan migrants continue to remain in limbo after the Supreme Court voted that Title 42 would remain in effect.

The Biden administration has been conspicuously silent about how migrants who plan to claim asylum should enter the United States when Trump-era limits end, fueling rumors, confusion and doubts about its readiness.