Category: Venezuela

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro said the country’s workers will get Fridays off for the remainder of April and May in his latest attempt to save power amid a severe drought Continue Reading

Venezuela’s main steelmaker Sidor has been shut down for 25 days, a union leader said on Wednesday, blaming the situation on the military officers who run the state-owned firm. Sidor Continue Reading

Venezuela’s PDVSA will discharge in the coming days its first cargo of U.S. crude bought from British BP, who along with China Oil was awarded a tender to supply the Continue Reading

For nearly the past two decades, chavistas , or supporters of former President Hugo Chávez, have dominated Venezuelan government institutions and have actively promoted the Bolivarian Revolution, whose key ideological Continue Reading

Venezuela’s opposition-controlled congress upheld a campaign promise and approved an amnesty law late Tuesday that is likely to deepen an institutional standoff with President Nicolas Maduro. Voting across party lines, Continue Reading

Venezuela’s state-owned oil company PDVSA on Monday said it was the target of a smear campaign after the U.S. Justice Department said three of the firm’s former employees had pleaded Continue Reading

Serious delays to load and unload vessels at Venezuela’s main crude port started to create a backlog of tankers last week that is now extending to the island of Curacao, Continue Reading

A Venezuelan oil contractor pleaded guilty to bribery in a U.S. court, the latest development in a wide-ranging Justice Department probe of state-run Petróleos de Venezuela. Abraham Jose Shiera Bastidas Continue Reading