KINGSTOWN, St Vincent (CMC) –St Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves on Wednesday said there will still be tensions after the International Court of Justice (ICJ) delivers a judgment in the decades-old border dispute between Guyana and Venezuela.
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — A man revered by millions as the “doctor of the poor” will be the first saint from Venezuela after Pope Francis approved a decree Tuesday.
Trump’s corollary to the Monroe Doctrine – “speak loudly AND carry a big stick” – has not been applied full force on Venezuela…as of yet. Instead the new
A permit issued by the United States government allowing energy giant Chevron Corp. to pump and export Venezuelan oil will be terminated this week.
The answer, of course, is that the U.S. doesn't want Maduro to be there. The Biden administration didn't want Maduro in the presidential palace either but eventually concluded that he wasn't going anywhere and that it was better to operate in reality rather than wait until the former school bus driver and union leader was dead or removed.
Rather than ‘offshoring’ criminals to the US, Venezuelan government policies have both consolidated gangs and created volatile pacts with them.
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro was inaugurated for a third term as president in Jan. despite widespread concerns over vote rigging.
The Trump administration’s decision to revoke the licenses allowing Chevron and other international companies to produce oil in Venezuela is likely to have a debilitating impact on the Caracas regime’s finances and limit the ability of strongman Nicolás Maduro to keep his ruling coalition together.