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Venezuela’s interim president, Delcy Rodríguez, gave a State of the Union speak yesterday that walked a narrative tight rope: she sustained the fiery, anti-imperialist rhetoric used by Chavista politicians, even as she said was opening Venezuela’s oil fields, a specific demand of the U.S. government, and releasing political prisoners, a move applauded by U.S. President Donald...


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Venezuela’s acting President Delcy Rodríguez said her government would continue releasing prisoners detained under former President Nicolás Maduro’s rule in what she described as “a new political moment” since his ouster by the U.S. military earlier this month. (


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The mega trade deal between the Mercosur trade bloc and the European Union — culminating 25 years of negotiations — may signal the limits of the U.S. Trump administration’s pressure tactics in Latin America, reports


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The Pentagon used a secret aircraft painted to look like a civilian plane in its first attack on a boat that the Trump administration said was smuggling drugs, killing 11 people last September, reports the New York Times. The aircraft also carried its munitions inside the fuselage, rather than visibly under its wings, according to officials briefed on the matter.

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Cuba Threats

U.S. President Donald Trump told Cuba — in the throws of an economic crisis now made more critical by the U.S. seizure of Venezuelan oil that served as a tenuous lifeline for the island — to “make a deal” or face unspecified consequences, adding on social media that no more Venezuelan oil or money would flow to the island. He provided no details about what form such a deal co...


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