U.S. forces held joint military drills within Guyanese airspace on Thursday as a longstanding and intensifying territorial dispute between Venezuela and Guyana sparked fears of war in South America. At the center of the dispute is Essequibo, an oil-rich region that Guyana has controlled for more than a century. Venezuela has claimed sovereignty over Essequibo for decades, and the two nations agreed... 

In a significant development, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has officially signed a series of decrees that entail the formal incorporation of the western region of Guyana, known as Essequibo, into Venezuelan territory. These decrees outline the establishment of a National Commission for the Defense of Essequibo, the creation of the Guayana Esequiba Comprehensive Defense Zone, and the formation... 

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has escalated tensions by deploying troops to the border with Guyana in preparation for claiming 160,000 square kilometers of territory known as Essequibo, according to reports from the Spanish daily El Pais. The move follows a controversial referendum in which 10.4 million Venezuelan voters allegedly approved incorporating the disputed territory, referred to as... 

In a historic shift in migration trends, nearly 67,000 Venezuelans crossed the southern US border last month – 82% of them illegally – surpassing Mexicans as the largest single nationality attempting to enter the United States, Axios reports. After the Biden administration gave migrants the green light, reversing several Trump-era initiatives to secure the border, Venezuelans fled deteriorating... 

A panicking Joe Biden has realized that his best friends, now that oil prices are soaring again and the SPR remains largely drained, are tinpot banana-republic “dictators” (in the White House’s own words) like Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro, and on Wednesday the White House suspended sanctions on Venezuelan oil, gas and gold production. But since it would be too corrupt even for Biden to drop... 

In its prolonged freezing of Venezuelan assets, the UK continues to withhold 31 tons of its gold stored at the Bank of England, with a new Supreme Court ruling supporting the seizure. The recent decision, CNN reported, “ruled that recognition of heads of state and government was solely the responsibility of the British government, which had recognized [opposition leader Juan] Guaidó as Venezuela’s... 

The US Department of Justice has announced indictments against multiple senior Venezuelan officials including President Nicolas Maduro, accusing them of “narco-terrorism,” and offering millions of dollars in reward money for information leading to their arrest or conviction. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Attorney General William Barr unsealed charges against Venezuela’s president and other... 

The number of asylum applications filed in the European Union rose by 13 percent in 2019, marking the first increase since 2015. Over 714,000 applications were filed during 2019, up from roughly 635,000 the previous year, according to figures released by the European Asylum Support Office (EASO). “There were five times as many applications for asylum than detections at the external border, the... 

American taxpayers are now paying the salaries and expenses of dozens of Venezuelan opposition figures who have created a “shadow government” inside Venezuela and abroad. On October 8, USAID signed a bilateral agreement with the faction of the Venezuelan opposition led by National Assembly president Juan Guaidó (whom the Trump administration recognizes as the “interim president” of Venezuela)... 

Venezuela claimed is derailed an attempted coup that would have also led to the assassination of Nicolas Maduro. The socialist regime accused the United States, Colombia and Chile of colluding to remove an under-pressure Maduro last weekend. The embattled leader of the oil-rich South American nation is facing popular backlash at home over a failing economy and spiraling inflation, as well as increasing... 

Venezuelan intelligence says it has foiled an assassination attempt against President Nicolas Maduro, which envisioned a group of rogue officers storming the presidential palace and installing an imprisoned general in his stead. The plot by current and former military officers involved breaking retired General Raúl Isaías Baduel out from a maximum security prison in Fuerte Tiuna, where he is kept... 

Germany’s biggest lender, Deutsche Bank, has basically stolen 20 tons of gold belonging to Venezuela as collateral after Caracas defaulted on a gold swap agreement valued at US$750 million. The seizure comes as part of a deal clinched between the Bolivarian Republic and the lender as early as 2016, Bloomberg reports. Under the terms of the agreement, Venezuela received a cash loan from Deutsche... 

The USCGC James, one of the US Navy’s most technologically advanced ships, was sailing towards Venezuela’s territorial waters when a patrol boat was sent to warn it off. The US vessel backed off after radio communication. The Venezuelan Navy released a statement on Friday, saying the incident took place on Thursday and involved a US Coast Guard vessel heading towards the Latin American country’s... 

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has congratulated the military for “defeating” the plotters of a coup after a day of protests called for by opposition leader Juan Guaido. Maduro called the opposition supporters a “small group that tried to fill the country with violence” and confirmed his government has faced several “modalities” of a coup d’état. He pinned Tuesday’s... 

A hawkish US think tank has hosted a secretive meeting on Venezuela, bringing together American and South American officials to discuss the “use of military force” in the country, investigative journalist Max Blumenthal told RT. The exclusive piece shedding some light on the secretive gathering was published by the Grayzone portal on Saturday. Blumenthal has obtained a check-in list of a private...