Venezuela

• Friday, August 21st 2026 - 08:17 UTC

  BP, Shell and Gulf partners return to Venezuelan gas on the Trinidad and Tobago border

  

  Venezuela's government has concluded a series of agreements with international oil companies in recent weeks to develop its offshore gas fields, marking a shift from the years of isolation and sanctions that have defined the sector.

• Monday, August 17th 2026 - 07:45 UTC

  Rains in Caracas leave three dead and destroy tents housing earthquake survivors

  

  At least three people died in Caracas as a result of torrential rains that fell between Saturday night and the early hours of Sunday, which also caused flooding, brought down trees, cut power supplies and destroyed camps sheltering families left homeless by the double earthquake of June 24.

• Thursday, August 13th 2026 - 08:59 UTC

  Venezuela's government and opposition agree to renew the Supreme Court and claim the London gold

  

  The government of acting president Delcy Rodríguez and a section of Venezuela's opposition closed the first round of negotiations in Caracas on Wednesday with two agreements: restarting from scratch the renewal of the Supreme Court of Justice, and acting jointly to recover Venezuelan gold reserves held at the Bank of England.

• Tuesday, August 11th 2026 - 10:11 UTC

  Colombia and Venezuela quakes are unconnected despite similar magnitude, experts say

  

  The magnitude 7.4 earthquake that struck western and central Colombia on Monday has a different tectonic origin from the earthquakes recorded in Venezuela in June, despite comparable magnitudes, said Viviana Dionisio, a seismologist with Colombia's National Seismological Network.

• Sunday, August 9th 2026 - 20:05 UTC

  Machado congratulates De la Espriella and says Venezuela will soon follow suit

  

  Venezuelan opposition leader and 2025 Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado congratulated Colombia's new president, Abelardo de la Espriella, and said Venezuela would “very soon” undertake a process of institutional and democratic strengthening similar to the one she said is beginning in the neighboring country. The Colombian president replied on Sunday thanking her for the support.

• Friday, August 7th 2026 - 21:17 UTC

  Venezuelan government and opposition open US-backed talks

  

  Delegations from the Venezuelan government and one sector of the opposition met on Thursday in Caracas to open negotiations backed by the United States, in the first face-to-face encounter since Nicolás Maduro's detention by US forces on January 3.

• Thursday, July 23rd 2026 - 22:37 UTC

  World Bank estimates $19.6 billion in earthquake damage in Venezuela

  

  The twin earthquakes that struck northern Venezuela on June 24 caused an estimated $19.6 billion in direct physical damage, according to a preliminary assessment published on Thursday by the World Bank. The figure is equivalent to about 18% of the country's gross domestic product, based on International Monetary Fund data.

• Thursday, July 23rd 2026 - 07:34 UTC

  New York judge sets June 2027 for the start of Maduro and Cilia Flores's trial

  

  Federal Judge Alvin Hellerstein set June 1, 2027, as the preliminary start date for the trial of former Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, in the narcoterrorism case they face in the United States. The decision came on Wednesday during the case's third hearing before the US District Court for the Southern District of New York, which lasted only a few minutes.

• Monday, July 20th 2026 - 19:51 UTC

  Rubio says talks on Venezuela's democratic transition will begin in early August

  

  U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Monday that talks to begin a democratic transition in Venezuela will start in early August. Rubio, who leads Washington's relationship with Caracas, said a group representing the National Assembly elected in 2015 —the last one the United States recognizes as legitimate— met with the interim government and agreed to establish a forum for reconciliation talks and to begin the transition process.

• Friday, July 17th 2026 - 22:25 UTC

  Venezuela raises official death toll from June double earthquake above 5,000

  

  The official death toll from the double earthquake that struck northern Venezuela on June 24 rose on Friday to 5,069, after 139 new fatalities were added, according to the president of Parliament, Jorge Rodríguez. The tally, released via Telegram, keeps the number of injured at 16,740 and of people left homeless at 17,907. Authorities present these figures as provisional, more than three weeks after the disaster.