La orden de un juez de brindar audiencias a docenas de migrantes deportados apresuradamente perturbaría la política exterior de Estados Unidos tras el derrocamiento de Nicolás Maduro, dijeron las autoridades.

Last week, U.S. President Donald Trump’s Venezuela pitch to oil executives to invest the vast sums required to revive the country’s flagging oil sector proved largely ineffectual. Exxon Mobil (NYSE:XOM) CEO Darren Woods offered the starkest assessment, calling the South American country “uninvestable” under its current commercial frameworks and hydrocarbon laws, while ConocoPhillips (NYSE:COP) CEO Ryan Lance also gave Trump a reality check, informing him his company lost billions of dollars when it exited the country under…

13 de enero de 2026.-El Departamento de Defensa ha pasado más de un año probando un dispositivo adquirido en una operación encubierta que, según algunos investigadores, podría ser la causa de una serie de misteriosas dolencias que afectan a espías, diplomáticos y tropas estadounidenses, conoci...

A couple of years ago, Venezuela’s government decided to revive a territorial claim over much of its neighbor, Guyana. The tiny country was emerging as a major oil producer, and Venezuela wanted a piece. Then came Trump and removed the head of that government. Essequibo lies between Guyana and Venezuela, with both claiming sovereignty, while Venezuela is planning a referendum on Sunday to determine the territory’s ownership future. The 61,000+ square mile territory represents about two-thirds of Guyana’s territory and is also…

Saudi Arabia’s sudden enthusiasm for developing its vast shale resources -- led by the giant Jafurah basin -- is rooted in a hard?nosed mix of energy security, export optimisation, and geopolitical positioning. Riyadh wants to slash the crude it still burns for power, free up more barrels for export at a time of tight OPEC+ management, and secure new feedstock for its expanding petrochemicals and industrial base. At the same time, the Kingdom is acutely aware that the U.S. shale boom reshaped global energy markets and eroded OPEC’s…

The American Petroleum Institute (API) estimated that crude oil inventories in the United States saw a build of 5.27 million barrels in the week ending January 9. Crude oil inventories sagged by 2.8 million barrels in the week prior. The Department of Energy (DoE) reported that crude oil inventories in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) rose by 200,000 barrels to 413.7 million barrels in the week ending January 9. Inventories in the SPR have been steadily increasing over the last year as the US Administration seeks to return the national stockpile…

Al menos seis abogados han dejado la Fiscalía de los Estados Unidos, incluido Joe Thompson, quien tomó la iniciativa en el procesamiento del fraude en los programas del gobierno estatal. 13 de enero de 2026.-La mayoría del equipo directivo de la Fisc...

Lebanon’s brutal civil war triggered waves of emigration to South America, with large diasporas settling in Brazil, Argentina, Venezuela and Colombia. Hezbollah initially built networks in those communities to buttress recruitment and finances. The U.S.-designated terrorist group then expanded into South America’s illicit economies, building relationships with transnational criminal syndicates and illegal armed structures to boost its finances. This increased Hezbollah’s capability to wage asymmetric warfare against the United…

Oil prices haven’t had a breather since the year started as one geopolitical crisis has moved to another. Just a week after the U.S. intervention in Venezuela captured Nicolas Maduro, U.S. President Donald Trump has turned his sights to Iran, threatening a U.S. response to the deadly suppression of mass protests against the Islamic Republic’s regime. Oil settled on Monday at a one-month high amid concerns about a potential supply disruption in the Middle East if Iranian protests further escalate and a U.S. intervention of some kind…

13 de enero de 2026.- El vicepresidente sectorial de Política, Seguridad Ciudadana y Paz, Diosdado Cabello, indicó que el pueblo venezolano ha retomado sus actividades en los distintos sectores de la vida nacional tras el bombardeo estadounidense contra el país. «Yo creo que el país está tranquil...

Oil prices pushed higher on Tuesday afternoon, with traders weighing a familiar but combustible mix of Middle East risk and Washington-driven policy uncertainty. As of 2:34 p.m. ET, U.S. benchmark WTI crude was trading around $61.10 per barrel, up roughly 2.7% on the day, while Brent crude climbed to about $65.41, gaining just over 2.4%. The gains capped a steady intraday grind higher rather than a knee-jerk spike, suggesting the market is responding to a cluster of risks rather than one clear catalyst. On one side of the oil price ledger is geopolitics.…

Oil prices pushed higher on Tuesday afternoon, with traders weighing a familiar but combustible mix of Middle East risk and Washington-driven policy uncertainty. As of 2:34 p.m. ET, U.S. benchmark WTI crude was trading around $61.10 per barrel, up roughly 2.7% on the day, while Brent crude climbed to about $65.41, gaining just over 2.4%. The gains capped a steady intraday grind higher rather than a knee-jerk spike, suggesting the market is responding to a cluster of risks rather than one clear catalyst. On one side of the oil price ledger is geopolitics.…

Oil prices pushed higher on Tuesday afternoon, with traders weighing a familiar but combustible mix of Middle East risk and Washington-driven policy uncertainty. As of 2:34 p.m. ET, U.S. benchmark WTI crude was trading around $61.10 per barrel, up roughly 2.7% on the day, while Brent crude climbed to about $65.41, gaining just over 2.4%. The gains capped a steady intraday grind higher rather than a knee-jerk spike, suggesting the market is responding to a cluster of risks rather than one clear catalyst. On one side of the oil price ledger is geopolitics.…

13 de enero de 2026.- El ministerio del Poder Popular para el Servicio Penitenciario anunció más de 300 excarcelaciones en menos de tres semanas, en miras de seguir garantizando el proceso de diálogo y conciliación en pro de la paz y estabilidad. La primera excarcelación data del 25 de diciembre ...

Martes, 13 de enero de 2026.- ¿Trump va a por Cuba? El cambio de régimen que sigue tras el secuestro de Maduro | La Base LATAM 118 Washington busca desdibujar el mapa del poder en El Caribe y en el resto de América Latina, mencionó Inna Afinogenova al inicio de este interesante programa de La ...

China and the EU took a significant step Monday toward easing their long-running electric vehicle trade dispute after Brussels released rules that could allow Chinese exporters to replace punitive tariffs with negotiated pricing commitments, according to the South China Morning Post. The European Commission said companies may submit price undertakings that must be “adequate to eliminate the injurious effects of the subsidies and provide equivalent effect to duties”. Exporters are encouraged to include shipment limits and future EU investments,…

13 de enero de 2026.- El ministro de Relaciones Interiores, Justicia y Paz, Diosdado Cabello, anunció, este martes, el decomiso de un masivo cargamento de 6.850 kilogramos de droga. "Con este resultado, el Estado venezolano alcanza la cifra de 7.148 kilos incautados" en apenas los primeros 13 días d...

Last week US President Donald Trump announced that Venezuela’s interim authorities will turn over up to 50 million barrels of oil to the United States, before later declaring his administration will control Venezuela's oil sales “indefinitely”. Decrying the state of Venezuela’s oil sector, including that the South American country now pumps a fraction of what it used to, Trump said, “We’re going to have our very large United States oil companies — the biggest anywhere in the world — go in,…

13 de enero de 2026.- Cientos de tractores ingresaron este martes a París en una protesta organizada por el sector agrícola francés contra la inminente firma del acuerdo de libre comercio entre la Unión Europea (UE) y el Mercado Común del Sur (Mercosur). Según reportó el canal BFMTV citando a la ...

Norway on Tuesday offered 57 new production licenses to 19 companies in the annual licensing round for acreage in the best-explored areas on the Norwegian continental shelf, as Western Europe’s biggest oil and gas producer looks to maintain the current high level of output for years to come. Norway holds an annual license round for exploration acreage in the best-known and mature areas on the Norwegian Continental Shelf—the so-called awards in predefined areas (APA) round. After more than 50 years of exploration activity, the APA rounds…