Rampant corruption in Venezuela’s national oil company weighs down the economy

 

Venezuela’s former oil minister Tareck El Aissami (left) and President Nicolás Maduro during a 2018 tour of a baseball stadium under construction in Caracas.RICARDO MAZALAN (AP)

Rampant corruption in Venezuela’s national oil company weighs down the economy

In the 1990s, PDVSA was a model state enterprise, but its politicization has become an albatross around the country’s neck

FLORANTONIA SINGER

Caracas - MAR 23, 2023 

Maduro’s six-month scramble to hold onto power

Nicolás Maduro celebrates after electoral authorities declared him the winner of the Venezuelan election, on July 29, 2024.FERNANDO VERGARA (AP)

A Maduro's six-month scramble to hold onto power

A reconstruction of the last six months of turmoil in Venezuela following the July elections, highlighting the opposition’s accusations of fraud, the exile of González Urrutia, the presentation of the paper tallies, the repression and persecution of Chavismo, and the growing tension leading up to the inauguration on January 10

 

Nicolás Maduro arrives at the BRICS summit at Kazan airport, Russia, on October 22.ALEXANDER VILF/BRICS-RUSSIA2024. (VIA REUTERS)

VENEZUELA

The solitude of Nicolás Maduro

Venezuela’s president traveled to Kazan in search of legitimacy, but returns without joining the bloc of countries aligned against the West and amid a diplomatic war with Brazil that further complicates his role in the international community