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Yesterday — 13 December 2025Main stream

Venezuela Oil Tanker Seized by U.S. Was Part of Effort to Finance Cuba

Firms with ties to Cuba are getting a larger share of Venezuelan oil exports, as the island’s security agents boost President Nicolás Maduro’s defenses.

© Vantor, via Associated Press

An oil tanker called the Skipper in the southern Caribbean Sea. It was seized by the United States.
Before yesterdayMain stream

Nobel Peace Prize Winner Machado Says U.S. Helped Her Leave Venezuela

María Corina Machado reappeared on the global stage as the Trump administration ramped up its pressure campaign against President Nicolás Maduro.

© Heiko Junge/NTB, via Reuters

María Corina Machado at a news conference in Oslo, Norway, on Thursday after spending more than a year in hiding.

Venezuela’s Nobel Peace Prize Winner Raises Stakes in Stand off With Maduro

The decision by María Corina Machado, the Venezuelan opposition leader, to emerge from hiding and leave the country has electrified her movement but carries political risks.

© Odd Andersen/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

Ana Corina Sosa, the daughter of the Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, speaking at the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony on Wednesday in Oslo.
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