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Venezuela resorts to floating storage as onshore storage tanks fill up

CARACAS (Reuters) — Venezuela’s state-run oil company PDVSA has started filling up tankers with crude and fuel oil it has in storage as inventories mount amid moves by the U.S.…

John McCarthy December 23, 2025

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Venezuela passes law against piracy, blockades amid US oil ship seizures

CARACAS (Reuters) — Venezuela's ruling-party controlled National Assembly unanimously approved a law on Tuesday that allows prison sentences of up to 20 years for anyone who promotes or finances what…

John McCarthy December 23, 2025

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Oil loading in Venezuela slows, more ships make U-turns after new US interceptions

CARACAS (Reuters) — Tanker loading in Venezuela dwindled today, with most ships moving oil cargoes only between domestic ports following U.S. action against two more ships and as state-run energy…

John McCarthy December 22, 2025

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US intercepts oil tanker off Venezuelan coast

CARACAS (Reuters) — The United States has intercepted an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela in international waters, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem confirmed Saturday, a move that…

John McCarthy December 21, 2025

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Lula, Maduro spoke about situation in Caribbean, South America, Brazil’s government says

BRASILIA (Reuters) — Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva spoke last week with his Venezuelan counterpart Nicolas Maduro about the situation in the Caribbean and South America, the Brazilian…

John McCarthy December 14, 2025

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US seized tanker near Venezuela just as warrant was set to expire, court document shows

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The U.S. government carried out its seizure of the M/T Skipper off the coast of Venezuela on Wednesday just as a judge-signed warrant was set to expire, according to…

John McCarthy December 13, 2025

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Venezuela accuses US of ‘blatant theft’ after tanker seized in Caribbean

CARACAS (Reuters) — The Venezuelan government has accused the United States of "blatant theft" after it seized a sanctioned oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, it said in a…

John McCarthy December 10, 2025

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US forces seized tanker off the coast of Venezuela, Trump announces

WASHINGTON — President Trump announced today that US forces “seized a tanker on the coast of Venezuela” amid escalating tensions between the two countries over strikes on drug trafficking boats…

John McCarthy December 10, 2025

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Flights avoid Venezuelan airspace as tensions build

CARACAS — President Donald Trump repeated his pledge to strike Venezuelan drug traffickers on land "very soon," prompting a group of Democratic and Republican senators to file a war powers resolution on…

John McCarthy December 8, 2025

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Awash in oil money, Guyana unveils a new digital school to boost education in the Caribbean

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) — Guyana’s government has launched an online school expected to boost the education of thousands of students in the South American nation’ s vast and largely impoverished Amazonian regions…

John McCarthy December 7, 2025