Bloomberg Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro has designated every Friday in the months of April and May as a non-working holiday, in a bid to save electricity as a prolonged drought pushes water levels to a critical threshold at hydro-generation plants. The country will unveil details of a 60-day plan to conserve energy, Maduro said, adding that measures would include asking …

Bloomberg Crystallex International Corp. said it was awarded $1.4 billion from a World Bank arbitration court over Venezuela’s nationalization of an untapped deposit that the Canadian miner has said holds millions of ounces of gold. The award, issued by the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes, upheld Crystallex’s claims that Venezuela breached an investment treaty “by failing to accord …

Bloomberg Mexico may raise as much as $4 billion for clean energy projects this summer as the government seeks to continue a tender process that produced its first results last week. The next auction due in August will be 50 percent bigger than the one that just concluded with expectations for $2.6 billion of investment in the renewables, said Cesar …