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Russia and Cuba held discussions for the construction of an oil refinery in Cuba following Russian lawmakers’ visit to the island.

Venezuelan citizens will soon have to book appointments to buy subsidized fuel rations for their vehicles, Oil Minister Pedro Tellechea said.

Nicolás Maduro said that, following his regime’s July 28 sham presidential “election,” Venezuela may join BRICS and have sanctions lifted.

U.S. acting ambassador to Colombia Francisco Palmieri said the Biden administration is, once again, willing to ease sanctions on Venezuela.

LNG Energy Group, a Canada-based company owned by billionaire Texas businessman Rodney Lewis, brokered a deal with Venezuela’s PDVSA.

Tareck El Aissami, former Venezuelan oil minister, has resurfaced in handcuffs, charged with treason, money laundering, and corruption.

Argentine President Javier Milei asserted in an interview on Sunday that he “would not have any problem” imposing diplomatic sanctions against Venezuela’s socialist regime, suggesting he would be willing to convince other countries to support similar measures.

NSC Coordinator for Strategic Communications John Kirby gave socialist Venezuela a deadline of April to commit to a “free and fair” presidential election in remarks on Monday, threatening the restoration of oil and gas sanctions lifted by U.S. President Joe Biden.

Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro declared on Thursday that the deal signed between his socialist regime and the Venezuelan “opposition” to hold a “free and fair” 2024 presidential election was “mortally wounded,” implying the cancelation of the election.

CARACAS, Venezuela — The Venezuelan socialist Maduro regime is expecting a substantial increase in its oil exports in 2024 after President Joe Biden eased oil sanctions on the rogue socialist regime in October.

CARACAS, Venezuela – Indian Oil Minister Hardeep Singh Puri announced India will resume purchasing Venezuelan oil since the Biden administration lifted sanctions.

CARACAS, Venezuela — The socialist Maduro regime is foreseeing a 27-percent increase in its income after the Biden Administration lifted sanctions on the state-owned Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) oil company, according to a report published by Reuters on Tuesday.

The Biden administration temporarily lifted oil and gas sanctions on Iran’s ally Venezuela on Wednesday evening.

CARACAS – Venezuela’s oil exports rose in July to the highest levels in almost three and a half years thanks to new supply contracts and increased oil shipments by California-based Chevron, Reuters reported on Wednesday.

One crucial, albeit tacit element in the Venezuelan socialist regime’s narrative is that it needs to portray itself as the hero of its own skewed story.

The Maracaibo Environment Institute warned over the weekend that roughly 40 percent of Lake Maracaibo, Venezuela’s largest lake, is contaminated with Microcystis cyanobacteria, locally referred to as verdín (“greenery”).

CARACAS, Venezuela — A commission of socialist lawmakers belonging to the socialist regime of dictator Nicolás Maduro announced on Thursday they have opened a criminal case against former American President Donald Trump on charges of “crimes against humanity.”

CARACAS – Venezuela experienced at least 86 oil spills in 2022, an average of seven such accidents a month, according to a report published by the Venezuelan Observatory of Political Ecology (OEP) on Tuesday.

CARACAS, Venezuela – China, through its major development finance institutions (DFIs), has not lent any more money to Venezuela since 2016, according to a recent report by the Inter-American Dialogue think tank and the Boston University Global Development Policy Center.

CARACAS, Venezuela – The sudden resignation this week of Tareck El Aissami, one of the most powerful people in the Venezuelan socialist regime, has shaken the core of dictator Nicolás Maduro’s inner circle.

CARACAS — Venezuela’s socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro said on Sunday that he is ready to normalize diplomatic relations between his country and the United States after breaking all ties with America in 2019.

China has been transporting millions of barrels of Venezuelan oil through a state-owned defense firm since 2020, evading U.S. sanctions imposed on Venezuelan oil, as part of a move to offset the socialist regime’s large debt to the Chinese Communist Party, Reuters reported on Friday.

Multiple anonymous senior officials told reporters on Tuesday that leftist President Joe Biden is planning to soon ease sanctions on dictator Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela, including sanctions that prevent negotiations between American oil companies and Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA).

Capitalism is the most popular ideology among citizens of Venezuela, a poll released this weekend found, and most who want to see dictator Nicolás Maduro vacate power before the end of the year see anti-Maduro opposition leaders as sell-outs to socialism.

José Guerra, a member of Venezuela’s National Assembly, lamented in an interview highlighted by Venezuelan outlet Dólar Today on Tuesday that “no solution” exists to Venezuela’s chronic gasoline shortages because socialist mismanagement has destroyed the nation’s refineries.

Six Citgo oil executives, five of them American citizens, will stand trial on charges of embezzlement and conspiracy after a year and a half in prison without charges in socialist Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro’s supreme court revealed on Monday.

The captain of the Manuela Saenz, a Venezuelan oil tanker, fought back against orders to send a shipment of unleaded and diesel gasoline to Cuba last week, prompting dictator Nicolás Maduro’s political police forces to stop the ship and replace him, according to a report in Argentine news outlet Infobae on Tuesday.

Deposed Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro condemned the United States Monday night for imposing a new round of sanctions on Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA), the state oil company, a move intended to get Maduro to move out of the presidential palace and allow constitutional interim president Juan Guaidó to take charge.

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) rejected the Trump administration’s new sanctions against Venezuela’s state-owned oil company on Monday, doubling down on her defense of Nicolas Maduro’s socialist regime last week.

The sanctions block purchases of Venezuelan oil by United States companies and freeze the assets of the state-owned company in the United States.

A group of unnamed Cuban doctors forced to work without pay in Venezuela filed a lawsuit Monday against Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA), the state’s oil company, arguing that the socialist state paid the Castro regime for their services in oil and owe them a fair salary.

Venezuela’s state oil company Petroleum of Venezuela (PDSVA) is facing a lawsuit in the United States for failing to pay $25 million owed to Canadian energy contractor SNC-Lavalin.

Contents: Socialist Venezuela’s state-owned PDVSA oil company near total collapse; Will China or Russia save Venezuela?

Thousands of Venezuelan workers quit the country’s state-run oil company Petroleum of Venezuela (PDSVA) following the installation of Major General Manuel Quevedo as its head this month.

Contents: Venezuela’s Socialism drives hundreds of thousands into Colombia; Venezuela threatens to end trade with Aruba, Curaçao and Bonaire

Contents: Socialist Venezuela may or may not have declared bankruptcy on Thursday; Socialist Venezuela may have reached the end of its economic road