Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro appears even more isolated this week after losing two regional allies, Honduras and St. Vincent and the Grenadines, at the polls as he confronts Washington’s naval buildup in the Caribbean.

Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro appeared in public Sunday for the first time in five days, temporarily putting an end to speculation that he had fled the country following a reported ultimatum from President Trump to leave or else.

Venezuela's authoritarian President Nicolás Maduro made his first public appearance in days on Sunday, ending speculation that he had fled the country amid heightened tensions with the United States.

President Donald Trump’s Venezuela regime change adventure is in danger of degenerating into a strategic, political, and legal morass.

The U.S. has sent its largest aircraft carrier and 15,000 troops to the Caribbean, where Venezuela is sitting on the world's biggest known oil reserve. As tensions rise, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has accused the U.

"They have not moved us one inch from the correct path we must always follow," he said, adding that "they will never remove us from the path of the revolution"

Venezuela is entering one of its most repressive periods in years, rights monitors say, as President Nicolás Maduro faces mounting isolation and an expanding US military presence in the Caribbean.

President Trump’s threat of military action has confronted President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela with the gravest challenge of his crisis-ridden reign.