Venezuela
UK spent public funds backing Venezuelan ‘president’ in gold dispute
by JOHN McEVOY | 25 April 2023
TAGGED: Venezuela
Why is Venezuela’s gold still frozen in the Bank of England?
by JOHN McEVOY | 27 January 2023
TAGGED: Venezuela
Secretive UK team met in Venezuela to promote British energy interests
by JOHN McEVOY | 20 January 2022
TAGGED: Venezuela
Minister pushing Venezuela regime change discussed its oil with petrol company
by MATT KENNARD | 16 November 2021
TAGGED: BP, Oil, Venezuela
Revealed: UK sets up media influencing project in Venezuela amid secretive £750,000 ‘democracy promotion’ programme
by MATT KENNARD | 6 January 2021
TAGGED: Venezuela
The UK government has established a journalism project to ‘influence’ Venezuela’s ‘media agenda’ while a Foreign Office-funded foundation is spending £750,000 on a secretive ‘democracy-promotion’ programme in the country, as Britain appears to deepen efforts to remove the Maduro government.
Conservative Party donors and the battle for offshore oil claimed by Venezuela
by MOLLY ANTIGONE HALL | 8 December 2020
TAGGED: Guyana, Venezuela
UK attempts to remove Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro may be linked to British oil interests in neighbouring Guyana where UK companies stand to profit from offshore oil-rich Essequibo, a territory that is claimed by Venezuela.
Revealed: UK Foreign Office has spent nearly half a million pounds in aid setting up anti-government coalition in Venezuela
by MATT KENNARD | 21 October 2020
TAGGED: Aid, Venezuela
The British government has surreptitiously given £450,000 from its overseas aid budget to establish an ‘anti-corruption’ coalition in Venezuela through a controversial fund which claims to ‘tackle instability and to prevent conflicts that threaten UK interests’, it can be revealed.