Florantonia Singer

The country’s enormous energy and mineral resources are consolidating as a key factor in the geopolitical dispute and in Venezuela’s institutional collapse

The Venezuelan diaspora in the region generates more than $10.6 billion, according to the IOM, but 30% still live without legal status

The seizure of tankers points to a gradual plan to cripple the finances of Nicolás Maduro’s regime

Caracas accuses the Caribbean island nation of participating in the seizure of an oil tanker off the Venezuelan coast

The Nobel laureate’s decision to go to Oslo has raised questions about what will happen to her leadership if she cannot go back to the country

The ‘Wall Street Journal’ claims the opposition leader left by sea for Curaçao with US support

In recent months, the opposition leader has joined the Republican’s efforts to pressure Maduro to relinquish power

Trump’s offensive has left the country virtually cut off from the world ahead of the Christmas holidays

Chavismo had been withholding any information about this call for days, giving rise to endless speculation. Experts say it could be a first step toward continuing dialogue within a context of heightened tension

Despite Donald Trump’s statement that Venezuelan airspace was closed, the two weekly flights to Caracas carrying deported migrants will resume

Only a handful of aircraft still dot the Venezuelan sky, which Washington has turned into an exclusion zone in what amounts to another tool of political pressure by the Trump administration

The message that the Venezuelan leader sought to convey at the close of Tuesday’s march was both an internal response to reinforce the regime’s cohesion, and an external signal of defiance against US pressure

The suspension of international flights to Caracas due to the risks of flying over Venezuelan territory has raised tensions in the region

Human Rights Watch documented the mistreatment of 252 migrants that the Trump administration sent to El Salvador, and who were later released and returned to Caracas

Caracas expands its military deployment while US attacks against alleged drug boats intensify

The Venezuelan leader is digging in his heels. There are no signs of internal cracks despite escalating US military pressure

The plan to hasten the Venezuelan leader’s downfall with a naval deployment in the Caribbean and a campaign of extrajudicial attacks on alleged drug boats has raised questions about what could come next

In his first public appearance since María Corina Machado won the Nobel Prize, the Venezuelan president insists that Chavismo is ready to fight against the threats of imperialism

In a letter to the president of the Security Council, the Nicolás Maduro government warns of ‘an impending aggression’

The government understands that the US warships anchored in the Caribbean Sea are not focusing on alleged drug shipments as much as they are on President Maduro and his closest aides

The warning comes after Trump sent a confidential notice to Congress stating that the United States is in a ‘noninternational armed conflict’ with drug cartels

The fact-finding mission found arbitrary arrests, sexual abuse in prisons, and disappearances of human rights activists and politicians. Caracas rejected the accusations and discredited the mission’s work

Military operations in the Caribbean have been accompanied by a strategy of pressure through intimidating messages

Most of the 11 occupants of the vessel — which departed from Venezuela and was blown up by the United States — came from a small coastal town taken over by drug trafficking

The attack on an alleged drug-running vessel marks a milestone in the strained relations between the two countries

The president says his country is facing the greatest threat Latin America has seen in 100 years: ‘We are witnessing how the Miami mafia has seized political power in the White House and the State Department’