Six months after the Venezuelan opposition gained control of the National Assembly, it is becoming increasingly clear that one of its primary goals — a referendum to recall the president Continue Reading
A Venezuelan woman died on Monday after being shot in the face when looters raided state food warehouses in the latest unrest in the crisis-hit OPEC nation, her family said. Continue Reading
To most Venezuelans suffering food shortages, Lorenzo Mendoza and the company he runs, Empresas Polar SA, are trusted providers of everything from pasta to beer. But to an embattled populist Continue Reading
Venezuelan security forces fired teargas at protesters chanting “We want food!” near the presidential palace in Caracas on Thursday, the latest street demonstration in the crisis-hit OPEC nation. National Guard Continue Reading
A throng of protesters demanding food made a run for the Venezuelan presidential palace on Thursday in a rare, apparently spontaneous outburst of anger at the socialist administration within the Continue Reading
Oil Tanker Venezuela Venezuela’s financial problems have become so acute that it is having trouble paying for the crude oil imports that it needs. Reuters reports that four oil tankers Continue Reading
Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro speaks during his weekly broadcast ”En contacto con Maduro” (In contact with Maduro) at the Miraflores Palace in Caracas, Venezuela, May 31, 2016. Miraflores Palace/Handout via Continue Reading
Venezuela is running out of just about everything. Food, medicine, electricity, toilet paper, condoms — you name it. And over the weekend at least two large international airlines — Lufthansa Continue Reading
As Venezuela drowns in debt and takes its state-run oil company, PDVSA, down with it, Reuters is reporting that BP has over 2 million barrels of oil stuck at a Continue Reading
Lufthansa has cancelled the only flight between Germany and Venezuela, underlining the worsening conditions and growing isolation of the South American country. The German airline has flown from its Frankfurt Continue Reading
