Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave Leonard Glenn Francis, the fugitive defense contractor who admitted to a $35 million bribery scheme in the largest corruption scandal in U.S. military history, has been arrested and returned by Venezuela to the United States as part of a major prisoner swap between the estranged countries, President … Read more
US President Joe Biden speaks on his economic policies at the Wisconsin Black Chamber of Commerce in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on December 20, 2023. Mandel Ngan | AFP | Getty Images The United States on Wednesday released from jail an accused money launderer close to Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro in exchange for that country sending home … Read more
TOPSHOT – Aerial view of the Essequibo region taken from Guyana on December 12, 2023. Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his Guyanese counterpart, Irfaan Ali, will meet on December 14, 2023 in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, on their countries’ growing dispute over the oil-rich region of Essequibo, amid mounting international warnings against escalating the … Read more
Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave Inside her home in Caracas, Venezuela, a mother’s heart swelled with hope — an optimism so tangible, it brought her down to her knees. “Gracias, dios mío,” — thank you, God — Wendelin Peña repeated as tears streamed down her face that Oct. 18 afternoon. The Biden … Read more
GEORGETOWN, Guyana — Oil giant ExxonMobil says it will keep ramping up production in offshore Guyana despite the escalation of a territorial dispute with neighboring Venezuela, which claims that oil-rich region as its own. In a brief statement posted Monday on Facebook, ExxonMobil Guyana said it was reaffirming its “long-term commitment to Guyana” as tensions … Read more
GEORGETOWN, Guyana — The government of Guyana, under pressure from neighboring Brazil and a Caribbean trading bloc, agreed Sunday to join bilateral talks with Venezuela over an escalating territorial dispute. The century-old dispute between the two South American nations recently reignited with the discovery of masses of oil in Guyana. The government of Nicolas Maduro, … Read more
CARACAS, Venezuela — A century-old territorial dispute deepened by the discovery of oil is boiling over between neighbors Guyana and Venezuela. Steeped in patriotism, the Venezuelan government is seizing on the fight to boost support ahead of a presidential election among a population fed up with a decadelong crisis that has pushed many into poverty. … Read more
Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro renewed his country’s ambitions of annexing nearly three-quarters of neighboring, oil-rich Guyana, presenting a map on television that showed Guyana’s Esequibo region as under the jurisdiction of Caracas. To a cheering crowd of supporters, Maduro said he would create a Venezuelan state known … Read more
CARACAS/WASHINGTON/HOUSTON (Reuters) – The Venezuelan government may allow appeals from opposition politicians seeking to remove bans barring them from public posts to progress in court, as a way to partially comply with U.S. demands ahead of a deadline tied to loosened sanctions, sources told Reuters. The United States in October announced a six-month roll back … Read more
CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuelan government critic María Corina Machado was declared the winner Thursday of an opposition-organized primary to choose a presidential candidate, in polling last weekend that was denounced by the self-proclaimed socialist government as illegitimate. The voting Sunday organized by the National Primary Commission drew more than 2.4 million voters in Venezuela and … Read more