FEATURE Oil expats desperately needed in Venezuela don't want to go home Yesterday 11:20 Expats are torn between a desire to rebuild their homeland and preserving the hard-won prosperity they’ve achieved abroad, for themselves and their families.
VENEZUELA OIL INDUSTRY US eases Venezuela sanctions after oil sector reforms 30-01-2026 09:11 Venezuela adopts reform package that will open up its nationalised oil sector to private investment; Delcy Rodríguez moves to appease the United States and Donald Trump following the toppling of leader Nicolas Maduro.
CHANGE IN VENEZUELA? Venezuela looks to woo US oil majors with new US-educated investment czar 20-01-2026 18:34 Interim leader Delcy Rodríguez names US-educated banker Calixto Ortega Sánchez as new head of Venezuela's main investment agency, an apparent overture to US investors.
ANALYSIS In Argentina, Trump tests whether money, not force, can win over Latin America 15-01-2026 11:09 Argentina holds clues about how successful US President Donald Trump's so-called “Donroe Doctrine” may ultimately be.
Business, politics & losses The fall of the Bolivarian régime and its ruinous fallout for Argentina 13-01-2026 15:18 Argentina’s economic relationship with the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela left a negative balance difficult to hide. From Hugo Chávez’s financial loans to Néstor Kirchner to failed trade agreements, expropriations and non-payments, the link translated into lost dollars, lost markets and troubled national companies. Bonds with usurious interest rates, unpaid exports, truncated energy projects and forced nationalisations marked almost three decades of a political alliance which, in economic terms, proved to be costly and ruinous for the country. by Carlos Burgueño
VENEZUELAN OIL INDUSTRY Trump says United States could run Venezuela and its oil for years 08-01-2026 14:52 Trump says in New York Times interview that the US would be running Venezuela and extracting its oil for years. “We will rebuild it in a very profitable way,” he told the newspaper.
Foreign relations & diplomacy Milei praises Trump but says he won’t break trade links with China 08-01-2026 00:36 Argentina’s President Javier Milei said that there is "global reordering" taking place – and that his government has already stated which side it’s backing.
ENERGY & GAS Bolivia natural gas shortage sends economy teetering 09-10-2024 13:57 Bolivia's once powerful natural gas industry is now on the verge of collapse as a result of a lack of investment and maintenance. The fall of the state-supported industry has sent shockwaves through Bolivia's economy.
Cryptocurrencies Venezuela crypto remittances skyrocket as migration crisis worsens 24-07-2024 21:11 Amount transmitted via crypto in Venezuela likely reached a record 9%of all the money sent home last year, according to data from blockchain analysis firm Chainalysis. by María Paula Mijares Torres, Bloomberg