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Kejal Vyas

ARTICLES BY KEJAL VYAS

The Trump administration sold $500 million of Venezuelan oil and pumped $300 million of it into Venezuelan banks, in a bid to help lift the country’s currency, the bolivar, and tame hyperinflation. (File Photo: Reuters)

Venezuelans suddenly have hope for the Economy. Less so for democracy.

5 min read . 28 Jan 2026

Venezuela’s current oil law prohibits private companies from independently exploring, producing and exporting.

Venezuela unveils oil bill to attract investors, lift output

5 min read . 23 Jan 2026

Venezuela currently has more than 30 million barrels of backlogged crude supplies in storage that it hasn’t been able to sell. (AFP)

Why taking Venezuela’s oil could actually lift its fortunes

6 min read . 09 Jan 2026

Delcy Rodríguez was formally sworn in as acting president at the National Assembly in Caracas on Monday.

The Venezuelan regime’s new strategy: Appease Trump to survive

5 min read . 06 Jan 2026

President Trump with Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth last week.

Trump says the US attacked Venezuelan docks where drugs are loaded onto boats

3 min read . 30 Dec 2025

In the last couple of years, Venezuela averaged about 15,000 passengers flying in and out of the country weekly (AFP)

Venezuela is relying on 20 aging planes after US restricted its airspace

5 min read . 23 Dec 2025

President Trump on Tuesday ordered a complete blockade of all sanctioned oil tankers going into and out of Venezuela. (REUTERS)

US tanker seizure has paralyzed Venezuela’s oil business—except Chevron’s

4 min read . 17 Dec 2025

Politics and security weren’t Venezuelans’ top concerns, but rather the weak economy, poor salaries and galloping inflation, the poll showed. (AFP)

Here in Venezuela, people are more afraid of runaway inflation than Trump

5 min read . 04 Dec 2025

An oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela last month. Isaac Urrutia/Reuters

How Chevron got caught in the clash between the US and Venezuela

5 min read . 31 Oct 2025

Recent changes have forced migrants to reconsider their plans, but many are still contemplating a future American dream, if delayed. (REUTERS)

They set out to find the American dream. They’re stuck in a Mexican nightmare.

9 min read . 22 Aug 2025

Presidential candidate Azruddin Mohamed in Georgetown, Guyana, in a shirt with the name of his political party, WIN. | Photographs by Nadege Mazars for WSJ

A gold-trading dynasty vies for power in oil-rich Guyana

6 min read . 21 Aug 2025

Argentine president Javier Milei. Photo: Reuters

Argentine president’s promotion of crypto rocks his presidency

5 min read . 19 Feb 2025

Colombian soldier Jhonny Pinilla, who fought in Ukraine. Natalia Kepesz for WSJ

The hottest job in a world at war: Gun-for-hire

7 min read . 17 Feb 2025

A miniature of Exxon Mobil’s Liza Unity oil platform on display during an energy conference in Georgetown, Guyana, earlier this year. Photo: Sabrina Valle/Reuters

As Exxon pumps Guyana’s Oil, China is winning battle for influence

5 min read . 26 Sept 2024

Edmundo González, the soft-spoken 74-year-old is the opposition’s presidential candidate in the July 28 election.

An unknown retiree is challenging Venezuela’s strongman—and leading big in polls

8 min read . 09 Jul 2024

Bolivia has weathered dozens of coups, and the president’s actions and the end of the uprising just three hours after it began was welcomed. (Photo by AIZAR RALDES / AFP) (AFP)

Was the military uprising a coup or a hoax? Bolivians aren’t sure

6 min read . 28 Jun 2024

Johnson Andre, the Haitian gang boss known as Izo, re-enacts a failed police raid of his Port-au-Prince slum in a rap video posted on social media.

A warlord turns to death, rape and rap videos to expand control in Haiti

8 min read . 07 Apr 2024

A facility of national oil company Petróleos de Venezuela PHOTO: LEONARDO FERNANDEZ VILORIA/REUTERS

Biden is unlikely to reimpose oil sanctions on Venezuela

5 min read . 30 Mar 2024

Corina Yoris, replacement for the upcoming elections of Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado. Yoris, philosopher and university professor, will face president Nicolas Maduro in the presidential elections on July 28. (Photo: AFP)

Meet the 80-year-old grandmother who’s taking on Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro

7 min read . 25 Mar 2024

How Wall Street Won a Battle Over Venezuelan Sanctions

How Wall Street Won a Battle Over Venezuelan Sanctions

5 min read . 13 Feb 2024