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Decision Point for Venezuela Sanctions
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The United States last Wednesday offered a $5 million reward for information leading to the arrest o...
Colombia Will be a Desert by 2070
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Decision Point for Venezuela Sanctions
DECISION POINT FOR VENEZUELA SANCTIONS
By P. Michael McKinley and Patrick Duddy - November 17, 2023
Venezuela is at a crossroads. The carefully choreographed announcement on October 17 of an agreement between the Maduro government and the opposition Unitary Platform on a roadmap for democratic presidential elections in 2024, accompanied the next day by an easing of US sanctions, unraveled in less than two weeks.
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ECUADOR IN TURMOIL
The United States last Wednesday offered a $5 million reward for information leading to the arrest of the perpetrators of the assassination of Ecuador presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio.
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Colombia Will be a Desert by 2070
So says it’s current President, Gustavo Petro, the first left-of-center politician ever elected to the office.
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Cuba Will Not Do the Wagner Waltz
Cuba will not do the Wagner waltz:
The Cuban Ambassador to Russia stated two weeks ago that Cuba would not oppose the participation of its citizens in the Russian-Ukrainian war.
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BOLSONARO BACK IN BRAZIL
Keeping the promise that he made, that he would return to Brazil in March 2023, former President Jairo Bolsonaro arrived in Brasilia on March 30th, after a three-month, self-imposed exile.
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