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The Latest Breaking News from Maracaibo

'Welcome To Hell': Freed Migrants Tell Of Horrors In Salvadoran Jail

Mervin Yamarte left Venezuela with his younger brother, hoping for a better life.

International Business Times · Jul 27, 2025

Drilling For Water In Venezuela's Parched Oil Town

In Venezuela's oil capital of Maracaibo, a drilling frenzy has led to dozens of new wells -- but the valuable liquid being pumped out is just water, not petroleum.

International Business Times · Jun 28, 2025

After a stint in Guantanamo Bay, a Venezuelan deported from the US adjusts to his homeland

Jhoan Bastidas is just starting to make sense of it all

The Independent UK · Mar 17, 2025

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'Yes We Can!' Venezuela's Machado Beats Opposition Drum In Face Of Threats

Venezuela's opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, barred by the regime from contesting Sunday's presidential election but tirelessly campaigning for her stand-in, gets mobbed by adoring supporters wherever she goes.

International Business Times · Jul 24, 2024

Oil-tainted Lake A Symptom, And Symbol, Of Venezuela's Collapse

A putrid smell hangs over the black-stained shores of Lake Maracaibo in Venezuela, where an oil slick is emblematic of the steep decline in the country's once-enviable petroleum industry.

International Business Times · Jul 21, 2024

Lake Michigan brings comfort to migrant families from Venezuela

Asylum-seekers from Maracaibo reflect on more blissful times back home before their country was in crisis.

Chicago Sun-Times · Nov 4, 2023

Oil, aquatic trash and toxic algae threaten life in Venezuela's Lake Maracaibo

The fishermen of Lake Maracaibo say they face their worst nightmare everyday as fish stocks decline and pollution degrades the health of this great freshwater lake, one of the oldest — and largest — in the world

The Independent UK · Aug 16, 2023

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In Venezuela, cars catch fire as maintenance becomes unaffordable

Baseball coach Adolfo Alvarez was traveling to a game with a group of children and their parents toward Venezuela´s northwestern city of Maracaibo, when the bus' engine suddenly caught fire.

Reuters · Jul 15, 2022

Inside the world’s most violent prison - where inmates are beheaded in horrid massacres

The Maracaibo National Prison, also known as Sabaneta Prison in Venezuela, has been closed for more than a decade but plans to convert it into a museum have brought with it gruesome tales

Daily Mirror · May 15, 2022

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