The name Operation Southern Spear has a curious background: it started as an immersive role-playing game created in 2017 by Centurion Combat Simulations, then reemerged in January 2025 as a U.S. Navy technology operation to…
Panama woke up on November 9, 2025, to a truth that many in the maritime sector preferred to keep hidden: an old, rusty tugboat sailing under an African flag purchased in a legal loophole was…
The request to dismiss the judicial expert in the CITGO auction, presented to the Delaware Court by the parties from Venezuela and Gold Reserve, was not successful, as the presiding judge denied the motions requesting…
On November 9, 2025, Panama woke up to a scandal that could no longer be swept under the rug: a rusty tugboat, bearing an African flag and carrying a load of 13.5 tons of cocaine,…
The regime of Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela has reached a turning point. What started as a revolutionary promise of popular power has morphed into an authoritarian apparatus sustained by repression, propaganda, and the remnants of…
The “Bolivarian joint criminal enterprise,” initially led by Hugo Chávez and later by his successor Nicolás Maduro, allegedly operates in Bolivia through the “MAS criminal organization.” This group engages in illicit activities such as drug…
The NGO, American Oversight, linked to the Democratic Party, has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) regarding the extradition of members of Tren de Aragua to El Salvador. The action, initiated…
The President of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo The administration of Enrique Peña Nieto marked a significant turning point in the history of corruption in Mexico. Scandals like the “Estafa Maestra,” “Operación Safiro,” the “Casa Blanca,”…
In Venezuela, a significant part of mineral extraction is gathered first at centers run by the state-owned Venezuelan Mining Corporation (CVM). The collection centers for tin and coltan in Los Pijiguaos and Morichalito, two neighboring…
Every day, the CITGO auction becomes more complicated, this time due to a lawsuit by Gold Reserve against Rusoro Mining Ltd to prevent it from participating in the sale, prompting the latter to ask the…
Venezuela is seeing an increase in lawsuits and payment judgments, including one from Siemens Energy INC., which is seeking to collect USD 200 million from PDV Holding INC., the owner of CITGO Petroleum Corporation, claiming…
Pedro Elías Hernández is a journalist and political analyst. Guacamaya, November 11, 2025. We Venezuelans experienced a monetary reform starting in 1939 with the establishment of the Central Bank of Venezuela (BCV), which, from its…
In a new twist in the complex legal saga for control of Citgo Petroleum, the most valuable U.S. refinery of Venezuela, Canadian miner Gold Reserve (GRZ.V) has launched a fresh legal offensive against its temporary…
Written by: La Tabla/Data Journalism Platform 10 NOV 2025 An investigation by EL TIEMPO has uncovered that the tracking of Ali Zaki Hage Jalil, linked by the FBI to the 1994 attack on a Panamanian…
