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Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Corina Machado greets supporters upon her arrival in Caracas on Sunday.
WORLD / Politics / ANALYSIS
Oct 27, 2026
Now home, Venezuela opposition leader Machado walks tightrope with supporters and Trump
Machado’s return to Venezuela after several failed attempts risks straining her ties with U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration.
Opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Corina Machado holds a Venezuelan flag while greeting supporters as she arrives in Caracas on Sunday.
WORLD
Oct 26, 2026
Machado returns to Venezuela to urge democratic transition
Opposition leader Maria Corina Machado’s return risks complicating the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump’s strategy for Venezuela.
Supporters of Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Corina Machado shout slogans during a rally to demand elections in Caracas on Thursday.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 23, 2026
Venezuelans call for elections in first national protest in nearly two years
Maria Corina Machado’s proxy won the 2024 election, according to vote tallies released by the opposition, but the government backed Nicolas Maduro.
Nicolas Maduro (left) the ousted president of Venezuela, is escorted off a helicopter en route to the federal courthouse in Manhattan on Jan. 5.
WORLD
Oct 9, 2026
Maduro faces new charge of torturing U.S. citizens in custody
The new charges are the first added to the case since the capture of former Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife in Venezuela in January.
Delcy Rodriguez, Venezuela's acting president, during the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Wednesday
WORLD / Politics / ANALYSIS
Sep 27, 2026
Venezuela president returns from U.S. visit with no deals or firm election date
It was Venezuelan interim President Delcy Rodriguez’s first visit to the U.S. since American forces captured then-President Nicolas Maduro in January.
Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado speaks during a rally in Panama City on May 23.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 23, 2026
Machado fails to slip back into Venezuela while Rodríguez is away
The Venezuelan opposition leader made three attempts in 24 hours to return home but was unable to complete the journey.
A global tanker shortage, worsened by war, underinvestment and shifting trade routes, has sent freight rates soaring and reshaped oil flows worldwide.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 23, 2026
The next inflation shock: $1 million-a-day oil tankers
The world’s VLCC fleet is relatively small, with about 925 tankers controlled by a handful of shipping tycoons.
A group of detained fishers are transported on a National Police bus from the port of Manta, Ecuador, on Friday.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Sep 7, 2026
Fishers detained, boats destroyed but no charges under U.S. ops in Equador
Joint U.S.-Ecuador counternarcotics operations in the Pacific have seen the destruction of four Ecuadoran vessels since Aug. 28.
PDVSA oil rigs on Lake Maracaibo in Cabimas, Venezuela, on Friday
BUSINESS / ANALYSIS
Sep 6, 2026
U.S. grip on Venezuelan oil threatens billions owed to China
Next on Washington’s agenda in Venezuela is an attempt to restructure the nation’s debt, which includes billions of dollars owed to China.
An oil pumpjack at Lake Maracaibo in Cabimas, Venezuela, in January
BUSINESS / FOCUS
Sep 5, 2026
Trump’s big Venezuela deal leaves U.S. oil industry blindsided
Industry leaders are worried the deal short-circuits ongoing commercial talks and cuts them out of some of Venezuela’s most prospective targets.
Chevron Venezuela President Mariano Vela (left) and Venezuela's oil minister, Paula Henao, shake hands after signing a cooperation agreement at Miraflores Palace in Caracas, Venezuela, on Wednesday.
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 3, 2026
Chevron CEO says patience pays off in Venezuela oil deal
For two decades, Chevron stayed while all its major peers quit after former Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez nationalized foreign assets atop the world’s largest oil reserves.
Captured Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro under escort as he heads toward a courthouse in New York on Jan. 5
WORLD
Sep 3, 2026
Venezuela’s Maduro asserts immunity and urges U.S. judge to dismiss charges
The Venezuelan leader has pleaded not guilty to drug trafficking charges and is scheduled to go on trial on June 1, 2027, if his effort to dismiss the case is unsuccessful.
A gas flare burns at the Cardon refinery, part of the Paraguana Refining Center, as years of underinvestment, equipment failures and shortages have hampered fuel production in Venezuela, in Punta Cardon, Venezuela, on May 6.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 1, 2026
Trump’s Venezuela deal leaves $100 billion question unanswered
The White House hasn’t explained where the $100 billion in expected investment for a new oil venture in Venezuela is supposed to come from.
An oil refinery in Punto Fijo, Venezuela, in 2021. U.S. President Donald Trump's administration’s highly unusual deal to develop Venezuela’s vast oil resources would have the U.S. government collaborate with an influential and polarizing Venezuelan businessman.
WORLD / Politics
Aug 31, 2026
Trump’s Venezuela oil grab reprises industry’s neocolonial past
The U.S. exerted outsize power over Latin America and its natural resources through much of the 20th century, stirring popular unrest, coup d’etats and the erosion of democracy.
U.S. President Donald Trump (L) and Venezuelan acting President Delcy Rodríguez (R). One potential advantage for Rodríguez in agreeing to grant the U.S. exclusive access to the country’s oil is that the deal could push the Trump administration to urge swift elections and help cement her grip on power.
WORLD / Politics
Aug 30, 2026
Trump’s oil deal riles both sides of Venezuelan political divide
One potential advantage for Venezuela’s acting president is if a deal with the U.S. hems in the Trump administration’s incentive to press for swift elections.
Oil platforms and pumpjacks at Lake Maracaibo in Cabimas, Venezuela, in January
BUSINESS / Economy
Aug 29, 2026
U.S. to take control of major portion of Venezuelan oil wealth
The move represents President Donald Trump’s latest push to establish U.S. dominance over the Western Hemisphere.
Tankers anchor near Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA's Jose terminal, in Puerto La Cruz, Venezuela, on Aug. 9.
WORLD
Aug 28, 2026
Venezuela weighs OPEC exit as U.S. discusses oil fields stake
Caracas’ potential separation would be a victory for U.S. President Donald Trump, a long-time critic of the oil cartel.
Men participate in the recovery of bodies from the rubble of a building that collapsed during the June 24 earthquake in La Guaira, Venezuela, on Aug. 6.
WORLD / FOCUS
Aug 16, 2026
A tale of two buildings: How quake rescue efforts differed in Colombia and Venezuela
Recent earthquakes in both countries have exposed sharply different government capacities to respond to disaster.
Colombia's new president, Abelardo de la Espriella, addresses an urban security summit in Barranquilla, Colombia, on Aug. 4.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 11, 2026
Colombia’s new right-wing government faces an uphill battle
Colombia’s new government faces severe fiscal and economic pressures that threaten recent social gains.
Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega and his wife, co-President Rosario Murillo, attend an event to commemorate the 47th anniversary of the Nicaraguan Revolution in Managua, on July 19.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 27, 2026
Nicaragua’s dictatorship should be Marco Rubio’s next problem
A country whose rulers openly reject elections has no place in this neighborhood.

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