Venezuela Oil

Trump Claims $2bn Venezuelan Oil Deal as US Seeks to Divert Crude From China and Assert Control Over Caracas’ Energy Sector

US President Donald Trump has claimed that Venezuela will “turn over” approximately $2 billion worth of crude oil to the United States under a new arrangement that would redirect supplies away from China and ease pressure on Venezuela’s constrained oil...
Venezuela- Colombia Border , Tienditas Bridge

Life at Standstill in Caracas as US Assault and Maduro’s Arrest Plunge Venezuela Into Political Limbo

Caracas awoke on Sunday to a city suspended between fear and disbelief, just 24 hours after the United States launched its first-ever large-scale military attack on South American soil and detained Venezuela’s long-time president, Nicolás Maduro. The overnight assault, carried...
La Carlota airport after explosions and low-flying aircraft were heard in Caracas, Venezuela, Saturday, January 3, 2026

How Hugo Chávez’s Long-Warned “Yankee Invasion” Finally Arrived in Maduro’s Venezuela

For years it was treated as political theatre, a fevered fantasy repeated so often that it lost its power to shock. The Yankees are coming. Hugo Chávez warned of it endlessly during his 14 years in power, conjuring visions of...
Donald Trump

Trump Hails ‘Spectacular’ Operation Against Maduro, Puts Venezuela’s Oil at Center of Crisis

Donald Trump stunned allies and critics alike on Saturday by shifting the focus of a dramatic U.S. military operation in Venezuela away from drugs and security and squarely onto oil, repeatedly portraying the seizure of Nicolás Maduro as an act...
Hardeep Singh Nijjar is seen outside the Guru Nanak Sikh Gurdwara Sahib, in Surrey, British Columbia

India Allegedly Behind Drive-By Shootings, Arson in Campaign Against Sikh Separatists, Says Canada

A Canadian Sikh activist received a chilling call from his wife: police had visited their home to warn her that his life was in danger. Just two weeks later, thousands of kilometers away in British Columbia, a gunman filmed himself...