19 de agosto de 2026. -- Potentes aludes de barro afectaron a ciudades del norte de Chile, una de las regiones más áridas del mundo, dejando a miles de personas desplazadas y causando daños en viviendas y carreteras tras unas precipitaciones extraordinarias que azotaron el desiert, informó UPI...

For most of the past six months, traders active on the commodity futures markets have been mostly optimistic. They have taken every statement by President Donald Trump about peace talks or victory over Iran at face value, betting on a speedy end of the war. Now, it has started to dawn on many that this is not happening. The physical squeeze is catching up with the market. Earlier this week, the Wall Street Journal reported that a diesel shortage that has been brewing since spring is now growing increasingly severe and about to become even more…

19 de agosto de 2026.-Los familiares de Rafael Guédez, Roberto Pérez y Olbis Dirinot, pescadores detenidos en el estado Falcón en 2024, y de Enrique Parada, César Belfort y Carlos Pérez, acusados por presuntamente atentar contra el ministro de Relaciones Interiores, Diosdado Cabello, en el est...

Caracas, 18 de agosto de 2026.- ...

Russia has been subject to many months of a ramped-up long-range drone campaign out of Ukraine, chiefly targeting oil refineries as well as industrial sites - and most recently expanding to online retail companies and attacks on private sector businesses.  Tuesday saw one of the single biggest drone waves on Moscow of the war, for example, with at least 600 sent against the capital region, resulting in widespread panic and some casualties. Making matters worse for the Russian population, several gas station networks have introduced new restrictions…

La ministra de Hidrocarburos, Paula Henao, promovió este miércoles 19 de agosto en Estados Unidos un “abanico” de oportunidades de inversi...

Houston, 19 de agosto de 2026. Venezuela suscribió este martes dos acuerdos clave con empresas del sector energético en el marco del foro Empowering Venezuela, celebrado en Houston, Estados Unidos. Estos convenios buscan fortalecer la producción de crudo y facilitar la caracterización técnica ...

Oilfield services giant SLB is preparing to reactivate as many as 15 drilling rigs in Venezuela, potentially removing one of the biggest obstacles to increasing the country’s crude production. SLB and energy-focused private equity firm Formentera Partners are working on separate efforts to increase Venezuela’s drilling capacity, executives said at an industry conference in Houston on Wednesday. Formentera is discussing importing rigs with international service companies, while SLB is focused on equipment already inside Venezuela. SLB…

Autoridades del sector eléctrico y de transporte se reunieron para evaluar e implementar el "plan ahorro energético" en el Metro de Caracas. Durante el encuentro participaron la viceministra de Energía Eléctrica, Tania Masea, y el presidente del Metro de Caracas, Yoel Amay...

Una exreina de belleza y exfuncionaria municipal sobresale en una investigación por presunto lavado de activos en Ecuador, donde se acumulan casos en los cuales parejas e hijas de capos manejan su dinero ilícito,

The oil market has remained complacent for months amid the worst disruption in global supply, with crude oil futures rarely topping $100 per barrel over the six months in which tanker traffic at the Strait of Hormuz is a trickle compared to pre-war levels. While market participants have been putting too much hope of a resolution of the conflict in their bets on future crude prices, product supply of the fuel of the economies – diesel – has been shrinking.     So much has the diesel market tightened in recent months that…

Trafigura Group and several other traders delivered more than 20,000 tons of copper into LME warehouses on Tuesday, the biggest one-day build in on-warrant stock since April, and the squeeze that had gripped the London market for the past week came apart. The cash-to-three-month spread settled at a $248-a-ton backwardation, down from as much as $545 on Monday, which was the widest since 2021. Trafigura was behind a large share of the metal placed on warrant, according to people familiar with the deliveries, and traders expect more to follow in…

Miércoles, 19 de agosto de 2026.- En editorial de Ari Lijalad menciona que Milei, presidente de la Argentina, culpa a los que se endedan para poder comer de los problemas que se presentan en la economía. En su editorial en #HabraConsecuencias, Ari Lijalad se preguntó cómo se encuentra el país a...

Miércoles, 19 de agosto de 2026.- Millones huyen de Dubái en agosto de 2026. ¿Qué está ocurriendo realmente en Dubái en agosto de 2026? El movimiento de población, los cambios en el turismo y la transformación de algunas de sus zonas más famosas están generando nuevas p...

Los recientes terremotos en Venezuela y Colombia reabren el debate sobre la capacidad de la región para hacer frente a grandes emergencias naturales. Además de la magnitud de estos episodios y el gran impacto que ocasionan, especialistas advierten que el verdadero desafío está en comprender el...

Kyrgyzstan has provided some clarity on the source of the recent blackout that impacted four states in Central Asia, while vigorously denying blame for the cascading outage.  Power outages were first reported in the Kyrgyz capital of Bishkek during the afternoon of August 14 before spreading to southern Kazakhstan and portions of Uzbekistan and Tajikistan. Kazakhstan’s Energy Ministry initially attributed the disruption, which lasted several hours, to a “sudden change in the power flow” of the regional grid.  Confusion…

The world’s largest battery-electric aircraft has completed its first flight using just $5 worth of electricity, with Heart Aerospace’s 25,000-pound X1 demonstrator flying for 27 minutes and putting a megawatt-scale electric propulsion system through its first airborne test. Heart Aerospace’s X1 demonstrator flew for 27 minutes from Plattsburgh International Airport in New York, climbing to 1,100 feet, with its electric propulsion system delivering more than one megawatt of power. The aircraft weighs more than 25,000 pounds at…

The world’s largest battery-electric aircraft has completed its first flight using just $5 worth of electricity, with Heart Aerospace’s 25,000-pound X1 demonstrator flying for 27 minutes and putting a megawatt-scale electric propulsion system through its first airborne test. Heart Aerospace’s X1 demonstrator flew for 27 minutes from Plattsburgh International Airport in New York, climbing to 1,100 feet, with its electric propulsion system delivering more than one megawatt of power. The aircraft weighs more than 25,000 pounds at…

El Gobierno venezolano firmo contrato con la corporación estadounidense Hunt Oi,l para el desarrollo de dos importantes campos de petróleo y gas ubicados en nuestro país. La información fue suministrada por la ministra de Hidrocarburos, Paula Henao, quien detalló que esta alianza comercial ser...

El doblete sísmico registrado el 24 de junio en el país afectó al sector restaurantes en el estado La Guaira. Canares ofrece un balance de las condiciones en las que se encuentran sus agremiados en la entidad costera. ...