Our live coverage of the protests in Venezuela has ended. You can read more about it here or scroll through the posts below to see how it unfolded. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo issued a ...

A basic guide to what has been happening in Venezuela, once one of Latin America's most prosperous countries, where a political and economic crisis has reached new heights.

Venezuela Crisis 2019 Explained: Essential Information About Safety, the Economy and the Maduro-Guaidó Dispute. Published Mar 14, 2019 at 8:00 AM EDT Updated Mar 18, 2019 at 4:51 AM EDT. By .

In their report — “Economic Sanctions as Collective Punishment: The Case of Venezuela” (April 2019) — they point out that this death toll is merely the start of what is to come.

Fitch Solutions revised their 2019 GDP forecast for Venezuela down from -10.1% to -13.9%. Downside risks to the forecast are substantial in both the short and long term, especially as oil prices fall.

Venezuela is the only country in the world that is currently experiencing the ravages of hyperinflation. As 2018 came to a close, Venezuela’s hyperinflation, which I am able to measure by ...

A U.S. court officer has selected miner Gold Reserve's $7.38 billion bid as the preliminary winner of an auction of shares in ...

Venezuela may sit on more known oil than any other nation, but it produces relatively little oil these days. From a high of 3.5 million barrels per day in the 1970s, the country produces only ...

Last Thursday, members of the press were invited to a Gilded Age mansion in Manhattan for a presentation titled “A Trillion-Dollar Opportunity: The Global Upside of a Democratic Venezuela.” At the ...

The Cardón refinery, Venezuela's second-largest with a capacity of 310,000 barrels per day, shut down after a power outage halted all operations.