Venezuela hit by major blackout, government blames ‘sabotage’ (V)
By Shaylim Valderrama and Vivian Sequera CARACAS, March 7 (Reuters) – A major power outage hit crisis-stricken Venezuela on Thursday, according to Reuters witnesses, a...
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Venezuela’s Maduro starts shutting borders to block aid
By Angus Berwick and Sarah Marsh CARACAS, Feb 21 (Reuters) – Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro threatened to close the border with Colombia on Thursday as...
Recognition of Guaido is illegal and insidious
Venezuelans should change their president not outsiders By Alper Ali Riza Recognising a rival president in another state with menaces of the type used by...
Maduro blocks frontier crossing to any humanitarian aid
By Anggy Polanco and Nelson Bocanegra URENA, Venezuela/CUCUTA, Colombia, Feb 6 (Reuters) – Desperate Venezuelans asked on Wednesday how they would gain access to U.S....
Venezuela opposition plans US fund to secure oil money
Venezuela’s opposition on Wednesday disclosed a key step to secure financing in its effort to dislodge President Nicolas Maduro, the opening of a U.S. fund...
EU nations back Guaido as anti-Maduro bloc grows
By Jose Elías Rodríguez and Angus Berwick Major European nations joined the United States on Monday in recognising opposition leader Juan Guaido as Venezuela’s...
US military intervention in Venezuela an option; Russia objects
By Brian Ellsworth CARACAS, Feb 3 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said military intervention in Venezuela was “an option” as Western nations boost pressure...
Venezuela’s Guaido courts Russia; powers divided on Maduro
By Mayela Armas and Corina Pons CARACAS, Jan 31 (Reuters) – Global jostling intensified on Thursday between countries that want Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro in...
U.S. refiner Citgo caught in Venezuela political upheaval
By Erwin Seba and Marianna Parraga CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas, Jan 31 (Reuters) – Citgo Petroleum Corp, the eighth largest U.S. refiner and Venezuela’s top foreign...
Maduro claims that US President has ordererd his assassination
By Vivian Sequera Speaking to Russian state news agency RIA on Wednesday, President Nicolas Maduro said that President Trump had ordered the Colombian government and...
