The recent seizure of an oil tanker known as Skipper by the U.S. off the coast of Venezuela marks a dramatic escalation of ...

The seizure comes as the United States builds up its forces in the Caribbean as part of a campaign against President Nicolás ...

The US seizure of an oil tanker is a big escalation amid calls by Washington for the Latin American state’s leader to go. If regime change happened, Venezuela’s 300 bln barrels of reserves could move ...

Abundant deposits of bauxite, coltan, gold and rare-earth minerals, which are now central to national security and global supply chains, are located in Venezuela, mainly in the southern part of the ...

The Trump administration is after Venezuela’s oil with its military campaign against the South American country, the president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, told CNN in an interview. “(Oil) is at the ...

On Nov. 11, the USS Gerald R. Ford, the world’s largest aircraft carrier, arrived in the Caribbean Sea as part of a military deployment the US says is intended to counter Latin American ...

The GOP is finally being honest about why it’s itching for military intervention in Venezuela. Shocker—it wasn’t about the drugs, it was always about the oil. “I would love to see a change in ...

Elliott Abrams has resurfaced with familiar instructions on how to “fix” Venezuela, a country he neither understands nor respects, yet feels entitled to rearrange like a piece of furniture in ...

Seizures of more tankers could put a stranglehold on Venezuela’s economy, which is exceptionally dependent on oil to keep the ...

Venezuela’s collapsing oil industry has become a central arena for the Trump administration’s broader strategy to reassert ...

The U.S. seized an oil tanker off the Venezuelan coast after a monthslong buildup of military forces in the region.