Venezuela Oil

Oil Prices Drop After US Forces Seize Venezuelan Leader Maduro, Raising Prospect of Oversupply from World’s Largest Oil Reserves

Oil prices edged lower on Monday (Jan 5) after a dramatic United States military operation in Venezuela raised the prospect of increased crude supply from the OPEC nation with the world’s largest proven oil reserves, deepening concerns about a global...
Donald Trump

Trump Floats Military Action Against Colombia After Stunning US Raid Captures Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro

United States President Donald Trump on Sunday (Jan 4) openly threatened military action against Colombia, dramatically escalating tensions in Latin America just days after a covert US operation captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and transferred him to New York to...
Nicolas Maduro

Venezuela Closes Ranks Behind Nicolas Maduro as U.S. Seizure of President Triggers Global Shock, Sovereignty Crisis and Fears of Prolonged Intervention

Venezuela’s socialist government moved swiftly on Sunday to project unity and control after the dramatic capture of President Nicolas Maduro by the United States, an unprecedented act that has plunged the oil-rich South American nation into its deepest political crisis...
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...
Australia Prime Minister Anthony Albanese

Australia urges respect for international law after US seizes Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has voiced support for a “peaceful, democratic transition” in Venezuela following a dramatic US military operation that captured President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, while urging that international law be respected amid rising global alarm...
Venezuela

United States Seizes Venezuela’s Leader: Who Will Run the Country?

In a stunning and unprecedented move, the United States has seized Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro in a nighttime operation in Caracas, raising immediate questions about who will govern the South American nation of nearly 30 million people. According to former...
Nicolas Maduro

Nicolas Maduro: From Bus Driver to Iron-Fisted Leader, Rising to Power in 2013 and Securing Controversial Re-Elections in 2018 and 2024 Amid Allegations of Fraud

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, the nation’s controversial strongman for more than a decade, was seized early Saturday by US special forces in an operation that has sent shockwaves through Caracas and the international community. The 63-year-old former bus driver, who...
US Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer

Democratic Lawmakers Say Trump Administration Misled Congress on Venezuela Regime Change, Demand Clear Plan as President Cites Risk of Leaks

Democratic lawmakers accused the administration of President Donald Trump on Saturday (Jan 3) of misleading Congress about its intentions toward Venezuela, saying senior officials had repeatedly denied any plan for regime change or major military action just weeks before the...
Venezuelans celebrate after US President Donald Trump said the US has struck Venezuela and captured its President Nicolas Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores

Legal Storm After US Forces Seize Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro: Was the Capture of Nicolas Maduro Lawful?

The early-morning capture of Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro by United States forces on Saturday, January 3, has triggered a storm of legal, diplomatic and constitutional debate, marking one of the most extraordinary uses of American military power against a foreign...
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