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Cuba has completely run out of diesel and fuel oil, the country’s Energy and Mines Minister said on Wednesday (May 14, 2026), as the capital Havana faces its worst rolling blackouts in decades amid a U.S. blockade that has strangled the island of fuel. “We have absolutely no fuel (oil), and absolutely no diesel,” Energy…
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U.S. President Donald Trump. File | Photo Credit: AP U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday (December 10, 2025) said that the United States has seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela amid mounting tensions with the government of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. It is the Trump administration’s latest push to increase pressure on…
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A priest conducts Mass during a memorial held by family members of Chad Joseph, whose family believe he was killed in a U.S. military strike on a boat in the Caribbean, at Saint Michael’s Roman Catholic Church in Las Cuevas, Trinidad and Tobago, on October 22, 2025. | Photo Credit: Reuters The UN human rights…
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The strike that U.S. President Donald Trump says was carried out on September 15, 2025 came two weeks after another military strike on what his administration says was a drug-carrying speedboat from Venezuela that killed 11. File | Photo Credit: Reuters U.S. President Trump authorises military strikes on drug-carrying boats from Venezuela, sparking debate over…
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Venezuelan government has nonetheless called on its citizens to enlist in the militias – armed volunteers – in support of its security forces in the event of a potential incursion. | Photo Credit: AP Personnel from a U.S. warship boarded a Venezuelan tuna boat with nine fishermen while it was sailing in Venezuelan waters, Venezuela’s…