Insights and Stories on Venezuela

World Food Programme starts distributing food in Venezuela

Jul. 7, 2021 at 8:23 pm CDT

Reuters — The U.N. World Food Programme (WFP) said Wednesday it had begun distributing school meals to children in Venezuela, where some seven million people require humanitarian assistance after years of economic collapse in the once-prosperous OPEC nation. The WFP’s first take-home rations were distributed for children under six years […]

U.S. senators seek probe of JBS

Oct. 8, 2019 at 8:38 pm CDT

By Reuters

Rising diesel prices coming

Apr. 3, 2019 at 1:53 am CDT

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

Oil sanctions on Venezuela could benefit Canada

Feb. 1, 2019 at 7:41 pm CST

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

Maduro rebukes Kellogg for leaving Venezuela

May. 15, 2018 at 7:44 pm CDT

By Corina Pons Tibisay Romero

Food riots grip western Venezuela

Jan. 12, 2018 at 12:17 am CST

San Cristobal/Barinas, Venezuela | Reuters — Hungry mobs ransacked a food collection centre and a supermarket in Venezuela’s western Andean state of Merida on Thursday and reportedly even slaughtered cattle grazing in a field as unrest over food shortages spread through the country. An opposition lawmaker from Merida, Carlos Paparoni, […]

By Anggy Polanco Francisco Aguilar

Venezuela ordered to pay U.K. firm for ranch takeovers

Apr. 21, 2016 at 6:21 pm CDT

Caracas | Reuters –– An international arbitration centre has ordered Venezuela to pay British cattle company Vestey Group nearly US$100 million for the nationalization of cattle ranches, pilling fresh pressure on the cash-strapped leftist government. Venezuela’s late president Hugo Chavez in 2005 sent in soldiers to seize major ranches and […]