Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro anticipated that the Ancillary Foreign Currency Administration System (Sicad) would be reactivated next week.

"There are no morals" in the conduct of the Venezuelan National Electoral Council (CNE), said Liliana Hernández, a representative of Simón Bolívar Command, the campaign team of opposition leader Henrique Capriles Radonski, in reply to the remarks made on Thursday by CNE Vice-President Sandra Oblitas.

State-run oil holding Petróleos de Venezuela (Pdvsa) is getting ready to close on financial leasing with oil companies China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) and US Chevron, for a total disbursement of USD 6 billion. The loans are sought to fund the expansion of the production capacity of joint ventures Petroboscán and Petrosinovensa. CNPC and (...)

The Venezuelan government ponders some alternatives to settle its debt in foreign currency with companies and reactivate the domestic economy.