Venezuelanalysis

Venezuela: National Assembly Pushes Reform to Open Electricity to Private Sector

The new law establishes concessions up to 25 years and higher tariffs to reflect “real costs” and ensure investment returns.
Digital Journal

Venezuela tense as defiant deputies take over assembly

A tense struggle for control of Venezuela’s legislature threatens to come to a head at a swearing-in ceremony Tuesday as opposition lawmakers defy government efforts to weaken their majority.
saudigazette

Pro-Maduro lawmakers return to Venezuela assembly

CARACAS — Lawmakers from President Nicolas Maduro's socialist party made a noisy return to the opposition-controlled National Assembly on Tuesday, ending a three-year boycott. Socialist deputies ...
UPI

Venezuela moves to open mining sector to foreign investment

March 10 (UPI) --Venezuela's National Assembly approved in a first debate a new mining bill aimed at attracting foreign capital and offering stronger legal guarantees for the exploitation of the ...
Digital Journal

Venezuela’s Constituent Assembly: what we know

Venezuela held elections Sunday for a Constituent Assembly backed by embattled President Nicolas Maduro to rewrite the constitution. Opposition activists and some foreign countries have doubts.