(AS/COA, 12.Aug.2021) â A new round of negotiations is set to start on Friday, August 13, in Mexico between representatives of the de facto regime of NicolĂĄs Maduro and the interim administration […]
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Venezuelaâs Opposition Targets âNarrowâ Chance To Tame Maduro
(By Ft, Michael Stott, 10.Aug.2021) â Once Venezuelaâs most famous political prisoner, he is best known for escaping from house arrest and appearing outside a […]
When Exception Becomes the Norm â Crisis as an Ordinary Experience in Venezuela
(Noria Research, 31.Jul.2021) â For several years now, Venezuela has been plagued by an unprecedented combination of political, institutional, economic, social, health, and security crises. […]
Venezuela’s Oil Sector Needs Private Investors
(Energy Analytics Institute, 29.Jun.2021) â The private sector must be reintegrated to increase production in Venezuela as itâs the only viable way the country could […]
US-EU-Canada Issue Joint Statement On Venezuela
(US State Department, 25.Jun.2021) â The following statement was released by Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken, the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and […]
US Rejects Maduro’s Call For Biden To Lift Venezuela Sanctions
(Bloomberg, 20.Jun.2021) â President Joe Bidenâs administration rejected Nicolas Maduroâs call for relief from U.S. sanctions, saying the Venezuelan leader needs to do more toward […]
Biden’s Venezuela Policy In Holding Pattern As Maduro Outlasts Pressures
(S&P Global, 18.Jun.2021) â After Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro outlasted the Trump administration’s maximum sanctions pressure, US President Joe Biden will have to decide whether […]
Venezuela President Maduro Talks Sanctions, Economy: Transcript
(Bloomberg, 18.Jun.2021) â Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro spoke to Bloomberg TVâs Erik Schatzker in an exclusive interview in Caracas at the Miraflores presidential palace. The […]
Venezuela Adjusts As Sanctions Spur Western Oil Partners To Retreat
(Reuters, 1.Jun.2021) â Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA is turning to local partners as it seeks to plug the gap left by Western companies in […]
Maduro Receives Harsh Economic Blow From An Unlikely Source: China
(Miami Herald, 25.May.2021) â A recently approved Chinese tax might translate into a severe economic blow to the NicolĂĄs Maduro regime by almost doubling the […]
Maduro Should Be Tried for Ecocide
(Foreign Policy, 14.May.2021) â It isnât uncommon to hear charges of âgenocideâ leveled at the government of Venezuelan President NicolĂĄs Maduro due to the humanitarian […]
LatAm Briefs: Venezuela Oil Output, Ecopetrol Tactical Hedges
(Energy Analytics Institute, 5.May.2021) â Energy briefs from the Latin America and Caribbean region including: Venezuelaâs rising crude oil production and tactical hedges in place […]
Venezuelan Olive Branches Pressure US To Ease Sanctions
(Argus, 4.May.2021) â Venezuela’s government has incorporated the political opposition into its electoral board, another olive branch that puts pressure on the US administration to […]
LatAm Briefs: Venezuelaâs 7+7 Quarantine, Elections In Peru
(Energy Analytics Institute, 5.Apr.2021) â Energy briefs from the Latin America and Caribbean region including: Venezuelaâs President Nicolas Maduro announces the start of another 7+7 […]
Maduro’s Eyes Buying Vaccines With Oil
(Reuters, 28.Mar.2021) â Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Sunday proposed paying for vaccines against the novel coronavirus with oil, though he provided few details about […]
U.S. Thirst For Russian Oil Hits Record High
(Bloomberg, 24.Mar.2021) â The oil tankers docking at the refinery in Baytown, Texas, look exactly like many others plying the waters of the Houston Ship […]
Venezuela’s Stations Offer Fuel, Liquor
(Bloomberg, 11.Mar.2021) â Welcome to Venezuelaâs new gasoline stations: They boast digital fuel pumps and high-end, imported liquor. Theyâre plastered in fresh coats of bright […]
World Must Stop Venezuelaâs Environmental Destruction
(By Francisco Dallmeier and Cristina V. Burelli, 22.Feb.2021) â The political and economic ruin of Venezuela, once one of Latin Americaâs wealthiest countries, is by […]
Diesel And Food In Venezuela
(Council on Foreign Relations, Elliott Abrams, 18.Feb.2021) â As part of the broad economic sanctions against the Maduro regime in Venezuela and especially the petroleum […]
China, Russia, Venezuela: Q&A With Thomas OâDonnell
(Energy Analytics Institute, 13.Feb.2021) â China and Russia continue to push around their might in Venezuela. Thomas OâDonnell with the Hertie School of Governance & […]
Sugarcane Harvest At Risk In Venezuela’s Portuguesa State
(Energy Analytics Institute, 30.Jan.2021) â Venezuelan sugarcane growers in the countryâs central Portuguesa state are at risk of losing the opportunity to harvest an estimated […]
China Buys Venezuelan Oil Doctored To Skirt Sanctions
(Bloomberg, 22.Jan.2021) â It may be the oil marketâs worst-kept secret: Millions of barrels of Venezuelan heavy crude, embargoed by the U.S., have been surreptitiously […]
US May Restore Venezuela Diesel Swaps, Ease Waiver
(Argus, 20.Jan.2021) â The new US administration is considering whether to reinstate Venezuelan crude-for-diesel swaps and ease a key sanctions waiver, but policy reversals alone […]
Trump Hits Venezuela With Sanctions
(AP, 19.Jan.2021) â The Trump administration issued a parting shot at Venezuelan President NicolĂĄs Maduro on Tuesday, announcing a sweeping round of stiff financial sanctions […]
Treasury Targets Venezuelan Sanctions Evasion Network
(US Treasury, 19.Jan.2021) â Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasuryâs Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated three individuals, fourteen entities, and six vessels […]
Venezuela Orders Arrest Of New Citgo Board Member
(Reuters, 18.Jan.2021) â Venezuelan authorities issued an arrest warrant for a new member of the board of directors of U.S.-based refining firm Citgo Petroleum Corp […]
Venezuela’s Maduro accuses US president Donald Trump of backing attacks on CRP
CARACAS, VENEZUELA (Piero Stewart, Energy Analytics Institute, 15.Jan.2021, Words: 169) â Venezuelaâs leader NicolĂĄs Maduro reiterated earlier claims that US President Donald Trump ordered the […]
Venezuela Eyes Private Cos Operating Oil Fields
(Reuters, 14.Jan.2021) â Venezuelan officials have met in recent months with small domestic oilfield contractors to propose letting them operate fields owned by state-owned PDVSA […]
Maduro Says Venezuela Eyes Output Of 1.5 MMB/D
(Energy Analytics Institute, 12.Jan.2021) â Venezuelaâs President Nicolas Maduro, during his annual speech to the nation on 12 January 2021, announced the OPEC country was […]
EU’s Declaration On Backing Venezuela’s Juan Guaido
(EU Council, 6.Jan.2021) â The Venezuelan elections of 6 December 2020 for the National Assembly regrettably went ahead without a national agreement on electoral conditions. […]
Venezuela’s Oil Exports Sink To 1940’s Level
(Reuters, 4.Jan.2021) â Pressured by strict U.S. sanctions, Venezuelaâs oil exports plunged by 376,500 barrels per day (bpd) in 2020, according to Refinitiv Eikon data […]
UAE Emerges As Hub For Cos. Helping Venezuela
(Reuters, 29.Dec.2020) â In June, the United States imposed sanctions on half a dozen oil tankers managed by established shipping firms. It was a major […]
Venezuela’s Oil Unions Accuse Govt Of Persecution
(AFP, 23.Dec.2020) â Venezuela’s vital oil industry is failing and the socialist government is feeling the pressure, and now the regime of President Nicolas Maduro […]
Venezuela Resumes Direct Oil Shipments To China
(Reuters, 22.Dec.2020) â Venezuela has resumed direct shipments of oil to China after U.S. sanctions sent the trade underground for more than a year, according […]
Biden To Seek Talks With Maduro Regime
(Bloomberg, 18.Dec.2020) â President-elect Joe Bidenâs advisers are preparing to negotiate with Nicolas Maduroâs regime in Venezuela in an effort to end the Western Hemisphereâs […]
Spills In Venezuela Offer A Bleak Vision Of An Oil End
(Bloomberg, 15.Dec.2020) â Tropical rains have washed away most outward traces of the oil spill that ravaged Rio Seco this fall. But the fishing village […]
Biden Presidency To Reset US Sanctions Focus
(Argus, 14.Dec.2020) â Washington’s failure in the past two years to force regime change in Caracas by means of severe sanctions gives the incoming US […]
Venezuela Disrupts Plan To Attack Refinery
(Reuters, 11.Dec.2020) â Venezuela’s Oil Minister Tareck El Aissami said on Friday that authorities had disrupted a plan to attack Venezuela’s 146,000-barrel-per-day (bpd) El Palito […]
US Applauds Interim Govtâs âPeopleâs Voteâ
(US State Department, 8.Dec.2020) â The United States continues to support Interim President Juan GuaidĂł, the National Assembly, and the Venezuelan people in their struggle […]
Chairman Risch On Fraud Elections In Venezuela
(US Senate, 7.Dec.2020) â US Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, released the following statement on yesterdayâs fraudulent congressional elections […]
Venezuelan Opposition Fills PdV Chair On Election Eve
(Argus, 7.Dec.2020) â Venezuela’s opposition-controlled National Assembly named another oil industry veteran to chair a shadow board of Venezuela’s national oil company PdV. The key […]
Venezuela’s New Assembly To Battle Sanctions
(Argus, 7.Dec.2020) â Venezuela’s National Assembly elections yesterday thrust the Opec country’s last democratic institution under the thumb of President Nicolas Maduro, who has defied […]
Venezuelans Vote In Legislative Election
(Al Jazeera, 6.Dec.2020) â Venezuelans voted on Sunday in legislative elections set to tighten President Nicolas Maduroâs grip on power and weaken his US-backed rival, […]
Venezuelaâs Parliamentary Election: Change Expected
(Energy Analytics Institute, 6.Dec.2020) â Venezuelaâs National Assembly leader and Interim President Juan Guaido could be coming to the end of his short two-year reign […]
Dems Statement Ahead Of Elections In Venezuela
(US Senate, 4.Dec.2020) â US Senate Foreign Relations Committee Ranking Member Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) issued the following statement […]
Venezuela Eyes Oil Reform And Dialogue With US
(Reuters, 3.Dec.2020) â Venezuela’s ruling Socialist Party would consider reforming the country’s oil law if it retakes control of the legislature after the Dec. 6 […]
India Looks To Resume Iran, Venezuela Oil Imports
(Reuters, 2.Dec.2020) â India wants to diversify its oil imports, including the resumption of supplies from Iran and Venezuela, after U.S. President-elect Joe Biden takes […]
Venezuela Resumes Direct Oil Shipments To China
(Reuters, 26.Nov.2020) â Venezuela has resumed direct shipments of oil to China after U.S. sanctions sent the trade underground for more than a year, according […]
Venezuela Briefs: Exchange Rate; PDVSA Isnât Bankrupt
(Energy Analytics Institute, 25.Nov.2020) â Foreign exchange rate and energy related briefs from OPEC oil producer Venezuela related to the rising Bolivar currency as well […]
Venezuelan Union Leader Girot Detained
(Reuters, 19.Nov.2020) â Venezuelan authorities arrested oil workers’ union leader Eudis Girot, other union officials said on Thursday, as the government’s crackdown on dissent at […]