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Photos show daily life along Venezuela’s oil coast after Maduro’s capture

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Photos show daily life along Venezuela’s oil coast after Maduro’s capture
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Photos show daily life along Venezuela’s oil coast after Maduro’s capture

Matias Delacroix Friday 16 January 2026 00:45 GMT
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Less than two weeks after a U.S. military operation captured former President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, and as his successor, acting President Delcy Rodriguez, announced plans to reform Venezuela’s energy sector, the country’s largest oil refining hub dominates the northwestern coast. Across the Paraguana Peninsula, fishing boats share the water with oil tankers, as daily life stretches from refinery-side coastal communities and salt flats to the sand dunes of Medanos de Coro National Park.

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