Shell to conduct Venezuela gas field survey ahead of licence expiry

Shell is set to complete a marine survey at Venezuela's offshore Dragon gas field in the upcoming weeks, ahead of a US-imposed deadline to cease operations, reported Reuters, citing sources close to the preparations. The survey will be conducted by the …

Pope Francis: A Lost Chance for Venezuela?

Pope Francis encapsulated many of the big issues of these convoluted times. As the first Jesuit and Latin American head of the Vatican, he was someone from “the Global South” who suddenly had a worldwide influence. Like Barack Obama or Justin Trudeau or …

Amazon illegal miners bypass enforcement by smuggling gold into Venezuela

Criminal groups are operating to smuggle illegal gold from the Brazilian Amazon into Venezuela, where the metal is laundered and exported overseas. Illegal gold traders adopted this new strategy after Brazil’s administration increased control over the …

Parents of US Air Force veteran detained in Venezuela call out lack of help from Dem senator

Cubans Mark Venezuela 215 Anniversary of Independence

Havana April 21 (ACN) Cubans and Venezuelans marked the 215 anniversary of the Declaration of Independence of Venezuela by laying a wreath at the statue of Liberator Simon Bolivar in Havana. The action was attended by Venezuelan diplomats in Cuba and by …

Venezuela accuses El Salvador of human trafficking as prisoners caught in row between authoritarians

Venezuela’s chief prosecutor has accused El Salvador’s president of being a “tyrannical” human trafficker after Nayib Bukele offered to exchange the 252 Venezuelan migrants deported to his country’s prisons by Donald Trump for the same number of political …

Does Trump's Venezuela deportation notice comply with Supreme Court ruling?

A U.S. judge expressed skepticism on Monday that the notice the White House pledged to give Venezuelan migrants before deporting them under a wartime law complied with the U.S. Supreme Court's order that they be given a chance to mount legal challenges …

Brazil’s MST joins hands with Venezuela’s commune movement in food sovereignty project

Members of Brazil’s Landless Rural Workers’ Movement (MST) have been working shoulder to shoulder with peasants in Venezuela for the last several months on a project to expand food production in the country. The Pátria Grande do Sul (the Great Homeland of …

Bukele proposes exchange of detainees to Venezuela as criticism mounts over detention of deported migrants

On April 20, the President of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, broke his relative silence on the detention of more than 200 Venezuelans in his country’s super max CECOT prison. In a post directed to Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, the Salvadoran president …

Venezuela Declares Three Days of National Mourning for Pope Francis: President of Venezuela Nicolás Maduro Highlights ...

Pope Francis will be mourned for three days in Venezuela .Photo:EFE. April 21, 2025 Hour: 8:57 pm The Venezuelan government declared national mourning until April 24, with flags at half-mast and a ban on public celebrations, honoring the pontiff as “a man …