The United States has designated Venezuela’s so-called Cartel de los Soles a “foreign terrorist organization”, marking the latest escalation in US-Venezuela tensions. Washington alleges Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro heads the organisation ...

Venezuela’s oil has been a core dimension of the years-long US campaign against strongman Nicolás Maduro. Successive administrations used the country’s vital export as a wedge to pressure Caracas, first through oil sanctions in 2019 and more recently through a partial blockade of oil tankers in the run-up to US airstrikes and the capturing of Maduro.