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What’s next for Venezuela, where a surprise attack saw US forces capture President Nicolas Maduro and his wife? Is getting control of the country’s oil reserves the most important motivation for…

The phrase “shadow fleet” refers to ageing oil tankers that operate under false flags to bypass Western sanctions on Russian, Iranian, and Venezuelan crude, a practice Russia has reportedly invested…

The United States on Wednesday seized a Russian-linked oil tanker in the North Atlantic after pursuing it from off the coast of Venezuela, in an operation condemned by Moscow. The…

The Trump Administration sharply escalated its enforcement of a blockade on Venezuelan oil exports on Wednesday, seizing two tankers in separate operations across the Atlantic and Caribbean and signaling that…

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Wednesday that a plan to seize and sell up to 50 million barrels of Venezuelan oil is designed to give the Trump Administration “tremendous…

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and US Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth have addressed journalists following the US army’s seizure of two Venezuela-linked tanker and Donald Trump’s reiterated remarks…

The operation to capture Venezuela’s now-ousted President Nicolás Maduro was in part a strategic economic move, as President Trump quickly made clear this weekend, to rebuild Venezuela’s oil industry and…

In a Truth Social post late on Tuesday night, US President Donald Trump announced that Venezuela would be “turning over” between 30 and 50 million barrels of oil to the…

US President Donald Trump said this Tuesday that he would be meeting with American oil executives, after last weekend’s stunning series of events in Venezuela. Meanwhile the Organization of American…

Speaking with FRANCE 24’s Sharon Gaffney, Colin Harding, a consultant on Latin America and the Caribbean and former Latin America Editor of the Independent, says that Trump’s push to get…