Venezuela

• Gold Approaches Record as Traders Watch US Data and Venezuela - Bullion traded near $4,350 an ounce, recovering from a modest decline in the previous session that snapped a five-day winning streak. Gold was also boosted by events in Venezuela, with President Donald Trump ordering a blockade of all sanc
• Tankers Under Sanction Are Only a Subset of Fleet Moving Venezuelan Oil - The scope of President Trump’s blockade against ships carrying oil from Venezuela was not clear on Wednesday.
• The oil blockade threat creates anxiety in Venezuela but people stick to their daily lives - U.S. President Donald Trump is threating to blockade sanctioned oil tankers from Venezuela, a move that could devastate a country already wrangling with years of spiraling crisis. Seasoned by years of political, social and economic challen
• Trump Revised Chevron’s Venezuela Deal. Maduro’s Oil Trader Profited. - A firm controlled by a businessman sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury for ties to President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela has sold millions of barrels from a Chevron-operated oil field.
• Colombia says ELN rebels killed 2 police officers as they protest US military build up - Colombian police said Tuesday that two officers were killed in the southwestern city of Cali in an attack by the National Liberation Army, a rebel group that stepped up attacks against the government this week. The National Liberation Army
• Venezuela's PDVSA suffers cyberattack as tankers make u-turns - Dec 15 (Reuters) - Venezuela's PDVSA was subject to a cyberattack that it blamed on the United States, the state-run oil company said on Monday, adding that its operations were unaffected even though
• Trinidad and Tobago to open its airports to US military as tensions with Venezuela escalate - PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (AP) — The government of Trinidad and Tobago said Monday that it would allow the U.S. military access to its airports in coming weeks as tensions build between the United States and Venezuela. The announcement comes
• Ample oil supply shields China from impact of Venezuela disruption, for now - SINGAPORE, Dec 15 (Reuters) - The volume of Venezuelan oil already headed to China before the U. seized a Venezuelan tanker last week, plus a glut of crude in storage and weak demand, will limit ​the near-term impact of the move in the Chin
• U.S. Military Plane and JetBlue Flight Nearly Collided Over Caribbean, Radio Traffic Shows - The Air Force refueling tanker was flying without its location transponder activated and could not be detected by air traffic control.
• For Rubio the Cuba Hawk, the Road to Havana Runs Through Venezuela - President Trump’s secretary of state and national security adviser has long sought to cripple or topple Cuba’s government, which has close security and economic ties to Venezuela.