Venezuela’s opposition took majority control of the National Assembly on Tuesday after years in the political wilderness, setting the stage for a potential power struggle with embattled President Nicolas Maduro. Continue Reading
A decision by Venezuela’s president to curb legislative oversight of the central bank has increased the embattled country’s prospects of sliding into hyperinflation, according to analysts. The tactic is the Continue Reading
Aldemir Bendine has been the company’s chief for 11 months. In Portuguese that stands for Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday—the three days a week that Mr. Bendine typically shows up at the Continue Reading
In Venezuela, where 2015 ended on grenade blasts alongside fireworks, the start of the new year promises an explosive showdown as an opposition-led legislature is sworn in on Tuesday. Incoming Continue Reading
Venezuela’s state oil company is temporarily halting natural-gas exports across the border to Colombia, citing climate factors and the need to generate electricity, the Colombian government said Friday. Petróleos de Continue Reading
At a Christmas breakfast with journalists, Aldemir Bendine, the chief executive of Petrobras, said Brazil’s state-controlled oil company was aiming to become “smaller” thanks to an array of planned asset Continue Reading
The secretary general of Venezuela’s opposition coalition denounced a move by the ruling United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) to challenge the results of the country’s Dec. 6 legislative elections, Continue Reading
A key gauge of Brazil’s public finances, the primary fiscal deficit, ballooned in November to one of the worst levels since records began. In a stark illustration of the challenges Continue Reading
A nongovernmental group that tracks crime in Venezuela says the homicide rate climbed in 2015, putting the country on track to be one of the most violent in the world. Continue Reading
Forget the opposition. OPEC is doing more to ruin the holiday season for Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro than any of his rival lawmakers. Maduro stepped up attacks on his opponents Continue Reading
