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Wright says amount of oil through the Strait of Hormuz will ‘continue to rise’

9 June 2026 at 18:44
Energy Secretary Chris Wright predicted Tuesday that the amount oil moving through the Strait of Hormuz will “continue to rise” as the U.S. and Iran work to end the 100-plus day conflict. During an Atlantic Council event, Wright said that traffic through the strait, a key oil shipping chokepoint, was “rising very meaningfully.” He added that oil…

Wright says amount of oil through the Strait of Hormuz will ‘continue to rise’

9 June 2026 at 18:44
Energy Secretary Chris Wright predicted Tuesday that the amount oil moving through the Strait of Hormuz will “continue to rise” as the U.S. and Iran work to end the 100-plus day conflict. During an Atlantic Council event, Wright said that traffic through the strait, a key oil shipping chokepoint, was “rising very meaningfully.” He added that oil…

Portuguese political prisoners still being held by Venezuela

8 June 2026 at 12:05
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Portugal has requested the intervention of Venezuela’s interim president, Delcy Rodríguez, to secure the release of five Portuguese-Venezuelan political prisoners who remain detained in the South American country’s jails. The

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Zapatero, a decade on the edge in Venezuela

7 June 2026 at 05:00

Those were turbulent times. It was November 2024 and Nicolás Maduro was holed up inside Miraflores Palace, the Venezuelan presidential residence. When any foreign leader hinted to him that it might be time to leave power, he answered with a single word: “Never.” The police and intelligence services under his command detained thousands of people who had taken to the streets to protest the electoral fraud that Chavismo had perpetrated in plain view of the world. Protesters had pulled down bronze statues of Hugo Chávez across the country. Prisons were overflowing. The nation was on the brink of rebellion or a bloodbath — or both.

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Zapatero with Delcy Rodríguez in 2016.

Venezuela opens its electricity system to private investment

4 June 2026 at 11:14

The National Assembly of Venezuela, controlled by Chavismo, has taken a step toward ending the state monopoly over the electricity service, which has been in crisis with blackouts and other problems for two decades. A draft reform to the Organic Law of the Electric System and Service was approved in first reading; it is aimed at opening the field to private capital within a framework of long-term concessions.

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Session in Venezuela’s assembly, in April.

The other Carmen Navas: The tireless families searching for relatives who disappeared in Venezuela’s prisons

2 June 2026 at 14:03

María Emely Delgado crossed paths with Carmen Navas several times this year: at the offices of the NGO Foro Penal, at the Public Ministry, and once at the El Rodeo prison on the outskirts of Caracas. Delgado is 63 years old, Navas was 82. Both were looking for their sons, who disappeared after being arbitrarily detained. Carmen Navas died 10 days after finding her son Víctor Hugo in a cemetery. She had spent 16 months searching for him. María Emely has still not found Jorgen. “You have to be in these shoes to know what this is like,” says the retired teacher, who has been wearing them for almost two years. “Her son had been missing for less time than mine; with Jorgen I’m now coming up on 22 months without news of him.”

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People hold candles during a vigil in honor of Carmen Navas in Caracas, Venezuela.

Parcerias e Negócios anuncia parceria com a Diáspora Lusa para aproximar empresários portugueses no mundo

29 May 2026 at 21:36

A Convenção Anual da Parcerias e Negócios realizou-se no dia 23 de Maio, no SDivine Fátima Hotel, reunindo empresários, empreendedores, oradores, dirigentes e profissionais de diferentes sectores de actividade. O encontro ficou marcado pela partilha de experiências, pela apresentação de…

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