Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI issues the Pragmatic Sanction, decreeing that Habsburg possessions can be inherited by a daughter.

Founding Date: Colombia declared its independence from the Spanish crown on July 20, 1810. In 1830, Venezuela and Ecuador separated from Greater Colombia. In 1886, the current Republic of Colombia was ...

CARACAS, Apr 25 2025 (IPS) - Reduced to a marginal oil producer over the past decade, Venezuela has suffered another blow as United States president Donald Trump ordered punitive measures to blockade ...

Nowhere is that more needed today than in Venezuela, a country that sits just 1,300 miles from Miami, rich in oil, yet controlled by an illegitimate narco-socialist regime. For years, Venezuela ...

Vitol Group has stepped up oil purchases in Venezuela in the final weeks of a US license that allows the world’s largest independent oil trader to do business in the sanctioned nation. Vitol is ...

Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele on Sunday offered Venezuela a prisoner exchange, proposing to trade detained Venezuelan deportees from the US for what he called Venezuela’s "political prisoners".

Venezuela’s army has said it is in a “state of alert” after the government warned of a suspected plot to blame Caracas for an attack on oil giant ExxonMobil in neighbouring Guyana. The two ...

Blend 22 targets European and Asian markets for medium sour crude First Blend 22 cargoes allocated to Maurel & Prom in swap deal Vitol charters vessels for Blend 22 export from Venezuela April 23 ...

Venezuela owes China’s banks about $10 billion, and its oil is about the only legal way it has to pay them back. By Keith Bradsher Reporting from Beijing President Trump’s threatened tariffs ...

42 tankers departed Venezuela carrying 804,677 bpd of oil, fuel China was the largest receiver with 483,700 bpd Some 80 vessels remain in Venezuelan waters, of which 35 laden European firms ...

In January, it appeared that President Donald Trump was working towards a reconciliation with Venezuela. But in the past month, a hawkish streak has appeared, no doubt driven by the State ...

President Nayib Bukele said he would free the Venezuelans that the Trump administration deported to El Salvador if Venezuela released the same number of prisoners, including members of the opposition.