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Pompeo To Visit Guyana, Suriname, Brazil, Colombia

(US State Department, 15.Sep.2020) — Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo will travel to Paramaribo, Suriname; Georgetown, Guyana; Boa Vista, Brazil; Bogota, Colombia; and Plano, Texas, September 17-20, 2020.  This trip [more…]

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Visa Curbs On Guyanese “Undermining Democracy”

(US Treasury, 15.Jul.2020) — On 2 March 2020 the Co-Operative Republic of Guyana held national elections, but it has still not declared a winner. All [more…]

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US Sanctions Four Firms For Transporting Venezuelan Oil

(Aljazeera, 2.Jun.2020) — The United States Treasury Department on Tuesday said it had sanctioned four shipping firms for transporting Venezuelan oil, the latest escalation in [more…]

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FBI Probes Firms Over Venezuela Oil Trading

(Reuters, 13.May.2020) — The FBI is probing several Mexican and European companies allegedly involved in trading Venezuelan oil as it gathers information for a U.S. [more…]

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US Seeks To Investigate Mexico Oil-For-Food Pact

(Reuters, 29.Apr.2020) — The U.S. State Department, the Treasury Department and the U.S. Embassy in Mexico are investigating at least two Mexican firms involved in [more…]

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Crisis Stricken Venezuela Faces Mounting Pressure

(Oilprice.com, 6.Apr.2020) — Over the past weeks, the Trump Administration has tightened the noose around Nicolas Maduro’s regime, increasing pressure on the country sitting on [more…]

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Trump Imposes New Curbs In Bid To Pressure Maduro

(Bloomberg, 6.Aug.2019) — President Donald Trump imposed further sanctions on Venezuela, freezing the government’s assets in the U.S. and adding immigration restrictions in a move [more…]

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Trump Govt Split Over Chevron’s Venezuela License

(Reuters, Timothy Gardner, 26.Jul.2019) — The Trump administration is split over whether to renew a license this week for energy company Chevron Corp’s operations in [more…]

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Chevron To Keep Drilling In Venezuela Despite Sanctions

(Reuters, 26.Jul.2019) — The administration of United States President Donald Trump said on Friday that it has renewed Chevron Corp’s licence to drill for oil [more…]

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Chevron In Crosshairs As Trump Exerts Maximum Pressure On Maduro

(Bloomberg, Kevin Crowley, Lucia Kassai and Kevin Cirilli, 25.Jul.2019) — Pressure is mounting on U.S. President Donald Trump to end Chevron Corp.’s 100-year presence in Venezuela [more…]

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New U.S. Sanctions Seek To Block Venezuelan Oil Shipments To Cuba

(NYT, Annie Karni and Nicholas Casey, 5.Apr.2019) — The Trump administration announced on Friday its latest round of economic sanctions against the government of President [more…]