As a new oil trading year begins, here's why crude futures continue to trade at or near their lowest levels in five years, despite heightened geopolitical tension.

Venezuela has the world's largest estimated oil reserves but its crude output remains at a fraction of capacity - here's why.

Venezuela Vice President Delcy Rodriguez said the economic reforms implemented by President Nicolás Maduro were consistent with the administration's guiding principles of Bolivarian socialism. She ...

But Venezuela also holds sizeable deposits of another strategic material that could prove a valuable trump card for the U.S.