PANAMA CITY, PANAMA (By Piero Stewart and Ana Sanches, Energy Analytics Institute, 8.Jan.2026, Words: 670) — Less than a week after the US executed a military plan to unseat Venezuela’s leader NicolĂ s Maduro, widespread uncertainty surrounds the Caribbean country, which is home to the world’s largest crude oil reserves. In the […]
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Rubio talks with CBS, NBC and ABC about Venezuelan oil and who’s running the country
HOUSTON, TEXAS (Compiled by editors at Energy Analytics Institute, 4.Jan.2026, Words: 3,800) — US secretary of state Marco Rubio spoke with 3 separate US new agencies on 4 Jan. 2025 in the immediate aftermath of the capture of Venezuela’s leader NicolĂ s Maduro. What follows are excerpts from his interviews with: George […]
Official Statement: Condemning Nicolás Maduro’s Illegitimate Attempt to Seize Power in Venezuela
(US Department of State, 10.Jan.2025) — US Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken issued a statement regarding the situation in Venezuela, including new actions against Nicolás Maduro and is representatives. Today, Nicolás Maduro held an illegitimate presidential inauguration in Venezuela in a desperate attempt to seize power. The Venezuelan people […]
Venezuelan Armed Forces to treat plane carrying Edmundo as “a foreign force”: RodrĂguez says
PANAMA CITY, PANAMA (Piero Stewart, Energy Analytics Institute, 8.Jan.2025, Words: 347) — Venezuelan soldiers have an order to treat the aircraft that aims to reach Venezuela with Edmundo González Urrutia as “a foreign force that tries to invade an air, maritime or land territory,” the online newspaper El Mundo reported on […]
LatAm NRG Heard: Argentina’s GDP, Chevron Venezuela, Plan Mexico
HOUSTON, TEXAS (Editors at Energy Analytics Institute, 20.Dec.2024) — LatAm NRG highlights, headlines and “heard on the street,” for the week ended 20 Dec. 2024. —Argentina: Argentina’s gross domestic product (GDP) rose 3.9% in the 3Q:24 v the 2Q:24, according to the Ministry of Economy.
A Month After Venezuela’s Contested Election, the Opposition Fights On
(The Washington Post, 27.Aug.2024) — A month ago, Venezuela’s opposition nurtured a cautious hope. A national election seemed to present a genuine chance to oust the entrenched autocratic regime of President Nicolás Maduro. Even as Maduro and his allies stacked the odds against their opponents, disqualifying top candidates and wielding the […]
Election Results in Venezuela, Possible Routes Forward
(Rystad, 29.Jul.2024) —While the election in Venezuela may be over, the future is still not certain. There was a forgone conclusion that the incumbent government of President Nicolas Maduro may try to perpetrate some sort of electoral fraud to maintain power, and it certainly seems as though that has been […]
Polls Open in Venezuelan Election That Could Lead to Seismic Shift
(AP, 27.Jul.2024) — Venezuelans are voting Sunday in a presidential election whose outcome will either lead to a seismic shift in politics or extend by six more years the policies that caused the world’s worst peacetime economic collapse. Whether it is President Nicolás Maduro who is chosen, or his main opponent, retired […]