Team Venezuela has already made its deepest World Baseball Classic run, but a championship win against the USA would instill even more national pride.

Shell confirmed it has inked deals with Venezuela to explore development of the country’s oil and gas reserves, less than a month after the US began allowing oil majors to sign exploration and production agreements with the South American nation. The agreements were signed on Thursday, a Shell spokesperson said in a statement to Upstream.

In January 2026, after U.S. forces captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, during an overnight mission in Caracas that reportedly left dozens of Venezuelan and Cuban officers dead, a claim (archived) circulated online that ...

Venezuela said the country is in "absolute calm, peace and stability” as the U.S. urged its citizens to leave and the opposition reported the death of a political prisoner. The U.S. advisory, issued after the capture of ousted President Nicolás Maduro ...

For more than a decade, Venezuela has had the world’s worst-performing economy. Misguided policies pursued by the country’s strongman, Nicolás Maduro, and his predecessor, Hugo Chávez, stifled growth and productivity, while punitive U.S. sanctions ...

Venezuela stands atop the baseball world. Venezuela became the first South American country to win the World Baseball Classic with its thrilling 3-2 victory over Team USA. One inning after the Americans erased a 2-0 deficit,

Venezuela won the World Baseball Classic on Tuesday after defeating the United States 3-2 in the championship.