Venezuela’s president ordered the creation of a new state called “Guayana Esequiba” on Tuesday, following a controversial Sunday referendum which saw Venezuelan voters approving the ...

Venezuela is spiraling once more into an inflationary storm as new data warns that price increases could skyrocket to 530% in ...

Map of Orinoco oil belt by USGS, October 2009. In this article, I attempt to tackle the question of how much oil Venezuela could produce in the short term. That is, if restrictions by the US ...

Key Background. On Tuesday, the Maduro regime and the U.S.-backed opposition signed a deal outlining a road map for next year’s presidential elections in Venezuela. As part of the deal, which ...

In a television appearance this week, Maduro presented a map that showed Guyana’s 61,000-square-mile Esequibo region as part of Venezuela.The authoritarian socialist told a crowd of government ...

Venezuela's National Assembly Thursday passed a law creating a new region in the oil-rich Essequibo territory under Guyanese control since the late 1800s on which Caracas claims sovereignty.

Venezuela’s territorial claim has been made against leftists and by leftists. It’s been about colonialism, nationalism, Cold War and oil, and it’s complicating U.S. foreign policy.

Venezuelans on Sunday for the first time elected a governor and other lawmakers for Essequibo, an oil-rich region that Venezuela has laid claim to even though it is widely recognized as being part ...

Venezuela’s president ordered the creation of a new state called “Guayana Esequiba” on Tuesday, following a controversial Sunday referendum which saw Venezuelan voters approving the ...