The acute fuel shortage in Venezuela is impeding distribution of limited food and aid needed to tackle the spreading coronavirus. Venezuela’s national oil company PDVSA is continuing to supply its Continue Reading
China has been sending aid to help Venezuela deal with the outbreak The US has offered to lift crippling sanctions against Venezuela if its leaders agree to a power-sharing deal. Continue Reading
Russian state oil company Rosneft’s decision to cease operations in Venezuela and sell its assets there to a Russian government-owned company was a “maneuver” made in reaction to collapsing oil Continue Reading
Russia’s Rosneft has canceled VLCC cargoes scheduled to carry 5.7 million barrels of Venezuelan oil because of U.S. sanctions, Reuters reports , citing data from PdVSA, and shipping data from Continue Reading
Russian oil giant Rosneft PJSC sold its assets in Venezuela to the Russian government, in what may be a maneuver to avoid any U.S. sanctions in an escalating fight between Continue Reading
In an unexpected move, Russian state oil giant Rosneft announced that it would halt all activities in Venezuela and sell all its assets related to activities in the country. “Today, Continue Reading
Russia said on Friday U.S. “narco-terrorism” charges against Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro were absurd, adding that sanctions on Caracas could become “a tool of genocide” amid the coronavirus outbreak. The Continue Reading
The U.S. government on Thursday indicted Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and more than a dozen other top Venezuelan officials on charges of “narco-terrorism,” the latest escalation of the Trump administration’s Continue Reading
Venezuela is looking to shut in some of its still-operational oil wells as oil buyers prove increasingly hard to find at a time when oil demand worldwide is plunging and Continue Reading
On March 13, Melquiades Avila, an indigenous leader and journalist in the remote Venezuelan state of Delta Amacuro, asked on his popular Facebook account: “Will our hospital be ready for Continue Reading
