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In an olive branch to Trump, Venezuela has released one of 10 imprisoned Americans. Trump is about to give oil companies more time to pump oil there. Is this a turning point in relations? #OOTT w/ Vera Bergengruen

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Exclusive | Venezuela Frees U.S. Air Force Veteran in Overture to Trump
Caracas wants the U.S. president to allow oil companies to stay in the country. Nine Americans remain detained.
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May 20, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Bombshell Cadem poll puts Chile’s center-right and far-right presidential hopefuls running neck and neck ahead of November election to replace outgoing incumbent Gabriel Boric.
May 19, 2025 at 12:28 AM
A must-read on the far-right coalition of Zionists and Christians undermining free speech and democracy in the United States.

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The Group Behind Project 2025 Has a Plan to Crush the Pro-Palestinian Movement
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May 18, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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President Trump is threatening to fire Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell unless he cuts interest rates to cushion the economic blow from tariffs. The tension has put the two on a collision course.
Trump and Powell on Collision Course Without Easy Escape
The president wants an interest-rate cut, but his trade war has the Fed chair boxed in.
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April 18, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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🚨Measles cases in the US surge 35% in ONE WEEK—now at 222 in 12 states.

We’re nearing last year’s TOTAL of 285, and it’s only March. Two deaths already, both unvaccinated. Texas is the epicenter with 198 cases.

The CDC’s weekly data lags, so the numbers are likely even higher.
March 8, 2025 at 9:24 PM
“More oil for fewer migrants” from #Venezuela risks becoming “No oil for more migrants”. #oott

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U.S. Revokes Chevron License to Pump Venezuelan Oil
The Treasury Department said the oil company has 30 days to wind down operations in the country.
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March 4, 2025 at 8:12 PM
#Chile is waking up wondering why the lights went out for some eight hours yesterday. One short-circuit on a transmission line run by ISA INTERCHILE was followed by a series of breakdowns in back-up systems -- A rare blackout in a robust grid. 1/
February 26, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Amid stormy seas, #LNG exporter #Trinidad & Tobago is gripping the mast of oil and gas. Will it hold?

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Geopolitical tensions buffet Trinidad’s vaunted gas revival - Gas Outlook
LNG exporter Trinidad and Tobago is taking a bet on deepwater drilling and reserves in Venezuela to close a chronic gap in gas feedstock.
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February 11, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Trump envoy Ric Grenell upstages Sec of State Marco Rubio with first Latam trip, to Venezuela of all places, aimed to win release of Americans and send back migrants. Just don’t say oil.

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Trump Envoy Looks for Venezuela Deportation Deal in Rare Caracas Visit
U.S. presses for release of 15 American detainees, offering to continue sanction- exemptions for U.S. oil companies.
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January 31, 2025 at 9:08 PM
#Venezuela Stay tuned as Maduro prepares to swear another spurious presidential oath today, while his main foe is back underground after yesterday’s cinematic cameo and brief detention.

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Venezuelan Opposition Leader Is Briefly Detained as Regime Tightens Crackdown
María Corina Machado was seized by President Nicolás Maduro’s regime after she appeared at a protest in Caracas.
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January 10, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro has turned up the heat on the incoming Trump administration by recently seizing 50 foreigners, several of them American passport holders
Venezuelan Regime Hunts for Foreign Hostages to Pressure Its Rivals
Maduro has turned up the heat on the incoming Trump administration by recently seizing 50 foreigners, several of them American passport holders.
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January 5, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Guided by past prisoner swaps, some 50 foreign passport holders locked up in Venezuela are Maduro’s potential bargaining chips as he prepares to start another six-year term based on a stolen election. Stay tuned.

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Venezuelan Regime Hunts for Foreign Hostages to Pressure Its Rivals
Maduro has turned up the heat on the incoming Trump administration by recently seizing 50 foreigners, several of them American passport holders.
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January 5, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Majestic view from the San Isidro lighthouse at the tip of the Brunswick Peninsula in deep southern Chile, where the Strait of Magellan veers between the Atlantic & Pacific oceans. Site of a future national park. Thanks to Fundación Rewilding Chile & Tompkins Conservation for the chance to visit.
December 7, 2024 at 6:52 PM
A modest cargo of Venezuelan asphalt arrived a few miles from Mar-a-Lago last week. Will it help pave a new US policy toward Caracas?

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Exclusive | More Oil for Fewer Migrants: Trump Is Urged to Make Deal With Venezuela
Lobbying efforts push for negotiations with strongman Nicolás Maduro instead of seeking regime change.
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November 28, 2024 at 9:26 AM
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This was entirely predictable, and in fact previewed by Trump long before the election, but oil industry enthusiasm for him seemed genuine. Are leases and deregulation (both reversible in 4 years) worth more than losing major export markets and dealing with other business costs of trade wars?
November 26, 2024 at 1:49 AM
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Between Scott Bessent’s idea to push for a 15% increase in oil output and Trump’s first salvo of tariffs, the U.S. energy sector faces some pain after January 20. Soybeans are faring worse - with China taking half of US exports, and other suppliers available, Beijing retaliation target seems clear.
November 26, 2024 at 1:49 AM
Sunday was a good day for the center-left in Chile’s gubernatorial run-off elections. The man to watch is the re-elected governor of the Santiago met region, Claudio Orrego.
November 25, 2024 at 11:39 AM
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🔴 Claudio Orrego supera a Francisco Orrego y consigue la reelección en la Región Metropolitana www.latercera.com/politica/not...
November 24, 2024 at 10:26 PM
Chileans are counting votes in today’s gubernatorial run-offs, a transparent, efficient process and example of civic participation. The election is seen as a referendum on the govt of President Gabriel Boric. Stay tuned.
November 24, 2024 at 9:30 PM
The U.S. oil and gas industry is deeply divided over Trump's plans to encourage drilling, impose trade tariffs and slash methane regulations, Benoît Morenne and Collin Eaton write in the The Wall Street Journal today.
November 22, 2024 at 1:13 PM
The bromance between Milei and Trump obscures fundamental differences over tariffs, Ukraine
By Ryan Dubé
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Milei Looks for Trump’s Help to ‘Make Argentina Great Again’
The Argentine leader hopes the U.S. president-elect will help unlock billions of dollars in new loans to finance the capitalist makeover of his country.
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November 18, 2024 at 4:03 PM
It was an honor to moderate a respectful discussion between two earnest young politicians in #Chile this week, Jaime Bellolio from the right and Tomás Vodanovic from the left. @uchicagopress.bsky.social
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Con Vodanovic y Bellolio: el encuentro de exalumnos de la Universidad de Chicago en el Club de Golf Los Leones | DFMAS
La cita fue organizada por el directorio de exalumnos: María Jesús Ibáñez, la asociada de PPU; Jorge Welch; el Core electo Álvaro Bellolio; José Manuel Allende, fundador de South Bites; Pamela Valdivi...
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November 16, 2024 at 1:58 PM