María Corina Machado, leader of Venezuela's opposition and winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize for her work advocating democracy in Venezuela, returned to Venezuela on October 25th after more than ten months in exile. Upon her return, Machado appeared at a church in Barquisimeto, in Lara state, and announced on social media that she had returned home. According to The New York Times, Machado crossed into Venezuela from Colombia. Machado's party says she had tried to enter Ve

Delcy Rodríguez, the acting president of Venezuela, spoke at an energy conference in Maracaibo, Venezuela, on October 17th. Rodríguez stated that Venezuela's oil industry would receive approximately $76 billion in investments over the next five years. Rodríguez also stated that 61 agreements had been completed with a further 44 currently under discussion. Amongst the agreements discussed was one with the U.S. that covered 17 oil fields. Only a week prior, at the annual assemb

It is July 23, 2026. Jorge Blas stands at Granja Escuela Nuestra Tierra, an educational farm outside San Martín de Valdeiglesias. Approximately 500 meters away, a vehicle catches fire on the M-501. “At first, we didn’t think it could reach us, partly because you never think these things are going to happen to you,” he recalls. The farm stood opposite the fire station. Naturally, he assumed that if something happened, the firefighters would extinguish it before the fire spread