A former Republican congressman and longtime friend of Secretary of State Marco Rubio received a 10-year prison sentence on Friday for concealing a $50 million lobbying campaign on Venezuela’s behalf during the first Trump administration. David Rivera of Miami has been jailed since his conviction in May for conspiracy to commit money laundering and failing
MIAMI — A former Miami congressman and longtime friend of U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio was sentenced Friday to 10 years in prison in connection with a secret $50 million lobbying campaign on Venezuela’s behalf during the first Trump administration. Republican David Rivera has been jailed since jurors found him guilty in May on
Venezuelan Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello, a minister closely associated with Maduro’s authoritarian rule, called the interim president’s meeting with Trump “a great triumph of the diplomacy of peace”. But opposition voices expressed their disapproval over the meeting, viewing it as a snub of their calls – that the US has previously endorsed – for swift
Early this year, it seemed all but certain that Citgo Petroleum—the Houston oil refiner familiar to American drivers, but little known as a Venezuelan subsidiary—was about to fall into the hands of a U.S. activist hedge fund. In November 2025, a Delaware federal judge ordered the sale of the company to Elliott Management and its affiliate startup,
A volcanologist working at the U.S. Geological Survey, Ezra Yacob made a career-defining leap in 2005 when he joined Houston oil producer EOG Resources and its geoscience team at the beginning of the shale revolution. “It was this real acknowledgment that we’re opening up a new frontier in petroleum exploration,” Yacob said at a Hart
Steve H. Hanke is a Senior Contributing Columnist at Fortune and a Professor of Applied Economics at The Johns Hopkins University. From 1995 to 1996, he was an economic advisor to President Rafael Caldera and is presently Special Adviser on Economic, Monetary, and Energy Affairs in the office of Congressman Antonio Ecarri at the National
