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“Acting President” of Venezuela Delcy Rodríguez on Sunday thanked President Donald Trump and U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio for facilitating a new historic oil deal between the countries.

American multinational energy corporation Chevron is now importing an average of 250,000 barrels of Venezuelan crude oil per day into the United States, the BBC reported on Tuesday.

Indian refiner Reliance Industries has begun loading a 2-million barrel cargo of Venezuelan crude oil directly bought from the state-owned oil company PDVSA, Reuters reported on Monday.

Venezuela experienced a sharp increase in its oil exports in February following the arrest of deposed socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro, Bloomberg News reported on Monday.

A new license granting U.S. oil companies expanded access to operate in Venezuela was issued Thursday by the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC).

Chinese state-owned oil company PetroChina told its partners not to buy or trade Venezuelan crude oil ever since the U.S. took control of Venezuelan oil exports earlier this month, according to a report published by Reuters on Tuesday.

An unnamed “U.S. official” told the news agency Reuters in a report published on Thursday that America’s participation in the Venezuelan oil industry would not prevent communist China from buying such oil, but that they would no longer benefit from “unfair, undercut” prices.

Venezuela’s state-owned oil company PDVSA announced on Wednesday it is now holding negotiations with the United States for the sale of oil to America.

The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on Wednesday imposed sanctions on four companies and four tankers aiding Venezuela’s socialist Maduro regime evade U.S. oil sanctions.

Maritime tracking data released on Monday showed that international oil tankers have dramatically scaled back loading activity at Venezuelan ports, fearful of a crackdown by the Trump administration on illegal sanctions-busting oil shipments.

California-based company Chevron filed tax returns worth about $300 million to the Venezuelan socialist regime, raising questions about how much dictator Nicolás Maduro benefits from Chevron’s oil production despite existing oil sanctions, Bloomberg reported on Thursday.

Environmentalists in Venezuela denounced that several marine animals were found dead and covered in oil in Lake Maracaibo.

The Venezuelan newspaper Tal Cual reported on Sunday that the United States received 12 shipments of crude oil and asphalt from Venezuela.

Russia and Cuba held discussions for the construction of an oil refinery in Cuba following Russian lawmakers’ visit to the island.

A recently unsealed indictment from a U.S. federal court claims that Venezuela’s dictator Nicolás Maduro is involved in the drug trade.

Venezuelan citizens will soon have to book appointments to buy subsidized fuel rations for their vehicles, Oil Minister Pedro Tellechea said.

Nicolás Maduro said that, following his regime’s July 28 sham presidential “election,” Venezuela may join BRICS and have sanctions lifted.

U.S. acting ambassador to Colombia Francisco Palmieri said the Biden administration is, once again, willing to ease sanctions on Venezuela.

Venezuelan socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro accused former Oil Minister Tareck El Aissami of conspiring with America to steal oil profits.

LNG Energy Group, a Canada-based company owned by billionaire Texas businessman Rodney Lewis, brokered a deal with Venezuela’s PDVSA.

Tareck El Aissami, former Venezuelan oil minister, has resurfaced in handcuffs, charged with treason, money laundering, and corruption.

Argentine President Javier Milei asserted in an interview on Sunday that he “would not have any problem” imposing diplomatic sanctions against Venezuela’s socialist regime, suggesting he would be willing to convince other countries to support similar measures.

Brazil’s state-run oil company Petrobras recently sent a team of production specialists to Venezuela at the request of socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro, Bloomberg reported over the weekend.

NSC Coordinator for Strategic Communications John Kirby gave socialist Venezuela a deadline of April to commit to a “free and fair” presidential election in remarks on Monday, threatening the restoration of oil and gas sanctions lifted by U.S. President Joe Biden.

Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro declared on Thursday that the deal signed between his socialist regime and the Venezuelan “opposition” to hold a “free and fair” 2024 presidential election was “mortally wounded,” implying the cancelation of the election.

CARACAS, Venezuela — The Venezuelan socialist Maduro regime is expecting a substantial increase in its oil exports in 2024 after President Joe Biden eased oil sanctions on the rogue socialist regime in October.

CARACAS, Venezuela – Indian Oil Minister Hardeep Singh Puri announced India will resume purchasing Venezuelan oil since the Biden administration lifted sanctions.

CARACAS, Venezuela — The socialist Maduro regime is foreseeing a 27-percent increase in its income after the Biden Administration lifted sanctions on the state-owned Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) oil company, according to a report published by Reuters on Tuesday.

The Biden administration temporarily lifted oil and gas sanctions on Iran’s ally Venezuela on Wednesday evening.

CARACAS – Venezuela’s oil exports rose in July to the highest levels in almost three and a half years thanks to new supply contracts and increased oil shipments by California-based Chevron, Reuters reported on Wednesday.

One crucial, albeit tacit element in the Venezuelan socialist regime’s narrative is that it needs to portray itself as the hero of its own skewed story.

The Maracaibo Environment Institute warned over the weekend that roughly 40 percent of Lake Maracaibo, Venezuela’s largest lake, is contaminated with Microcystis cyanobacteria, locally referred to as verdín (“greenery”).

CARACAS, Venezuela — A commission of socialist lawmakers belonging to the socialist regime of dictator Nicolás Maduro announced on Thursday they have opened a criminal case against former American President Donald Trump on charges of “crimes against humanity.”

CARACAS – Venezuela experienced at least 86 oil spills in 2022, an average of seven such accidents a month, according to a report published by the Venezuelan Observatory of Political Ecology (OEP) on Tuesday.

CARACAS, Venezuela – China, through its major development finance institutions (DFIs), has not lent any more money to Venezuela since 2016, according to a recent report by the Inter-American Dialogue think tank and the Boston University Global Development Policy Center.

CARACAS, Venezuela – The sudden resignation this week of Tareck El Aissami, one of the most powerful people in the Venezuelan socialist regime, has shaken the core of dictator Nicolás Maduro’s inner circle.