The U.S. Treasury Department announces an ease of certain oil, gas, and gold sanctions on Venezuela following the Venezuelan government and opposition's agreement to conduct elections. 2023-10-18
The United States start talks with Venezuela about supplies of its oil, currently under sanctions, in an attempt to substitute the Russian crude. So far the talks yielded few results. 2022-03-6
The U.S. State Department adds Russian oil company Rosneft Trading S.A. to its financial blacklist for helping facilitate the sale of Venezuelan oil. 2020-02-18
Venezuelan officials are accused of using the cryptocurrency Bitcoin in order to circumvent United States sanctions. 2019-07-29
The Venezuelan military reports that on Friday, an American Naval reconnaissance plane entered its national airspace, threatening flights to Maiquetia Airport; the United States asserts that their aircraft was over international waters in the Caribbean on an approved mission. The US plane was followed for a prolonged time by a Venezuelan fighter. 2019-07-21
The U.S. imposes new sanctions on eight Venezuelan officials, including Secretary of the 2017 Constituent Assembly Adán Chávez - the late President Hugo Chávez's brother, to "deter further democratic backsliding" in the South American country. 2017-08-9
The United States sanctions Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro over the controversial Constitutional Assembly election which critics say is an attempt to establish a dictatorship. 2017-07-31
Venezuela says a U.S. Coast Guard intelligence plane violated its airspace on November 6. 2015-11-8
Venezuela cuts off an informal channel of communication with the United States because of comments by a US State Department official about next month's presidential election. 2013-03-20