Patricia Laya

The death toll from Colombia's earthquake rose to 265 as President Abelardo de la Espriella moved to declare an economic emergency to confront the fallout from the strongest tremor to strike the country in 47 years.

Venezuela’s acting President Delcy Rodríguez said she will eliminate police checkpoints in cities, dismantling one of the key tools widely used for surveillance and repression under Chavismo over the past decade.

The Trump administration is in talks with Venezuela to take an ownership stake in the Latin American nation’s oil fields, Axios reported.

Venezuelan hard-liners and opposition forces alike criticized acting President Delcy Rodríguez for agreeing to grant the US exclusive access to the country’s valuable oil resources. She may be betting that the deal with Donald Trump is her ticket to a tighter grip on power.

(Bloomberg) -- Venezuelan hard-liners and opposition forces alike criticized acting President Delcy Rodríguez for agreeing to grant the US exclusive access to the country's valuable oil resources.

Joaquín Gutiérrez was selected to lead Colombia’s state-controlled Ecopetrol SA as the new government seeks to revive oil and gas exploration and restore fracking plans, La República reported, citing a decision by the company’s board.

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La persona más influyente en la campaña de Trump para reestructurar la industria petrolera venezolana podría ser un empresario radicado en Londres que pasó años bajo investigación en EE.UU., Venezuela, Suiza y España.

Alejandro Betancourt started rebuilding his Venezuelan oil empire nearly two years before US forces captured Nicolás Maduro.

Venezuela and the US are setting up a path toward elections in the South American country that would be triggered by declaring a vacancy in the office, which technically has been empty since American forces captured Nicolás Maduro in January.