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Former top Venezuelan oil ministry lawyer gets 4 years in Miami money laundering case

MIAMI — A former top lawyer of Venezuela’s oil ministry who played a central role in a $1.2 billion money-laundering scheme fueled by government corruption was sentenced to more than four years in prison by a Miami federal judge Thursday — punishment that was less than half of what prosecutors…

Miami Herald

Newsmax claims Smartmatic vote-rigging theory wasn’t ‘inherently incredible’

Smartmatic Corp.’s defamation suit against Newsmax Media Inc. over false reports that the voting technology company rigged the 2020 presidential election should be dismissed because there was “nothing inherently incredible” about the theory, the network told a judge.

Tribune News Service

Petro's call for change in Colombia rattles armed forces

Members of Colombia's armed forces - especially its police - are worried they will face significant changes if leftist candidate Gustavo Petro wins the presidency this month, a dozen active and retired officials told Reuters.

Reuters

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Hugo Chavez, dead voters, ‘2,000 Mules’: Discredited Trump theories resurface at Jan 6 hearing

Panel investigates how ex-president pushed wild claims his own advisers knew were false

The Independent UK

Op-Ed: Why we don’t need a Summit of the Americas ever again

Leaders from the Western Hemisphere are gathering in Los Angeles for next week’s ninth Summit of the Americas, ostensibly to ensure more effective engagement between the United States and its neighbors. As he prepares for the triennial conference President Joe Biden should do something seemingly counterintuitive — make it the…

Los Angeles Times

Ex-rebel emerges as favorite in Colombian presidential race

A one-time rebel fighter has used an emotional anti-establishment discourse and promises to boost state involvement in the economy to garner a commanding lead in polls as Colombia heads into Sunday's presidential election

The Independent UK

Late Venezuelan leader Chavez' aide extradited to US by Spain

Spain's High Court said on Friday it had extradited to the United States a Venezuelan woman who was a member of late President Hugo Chavez's inner circle, on charges of money laundering and belonging to a criminal group.

Reuters

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Colombian candidate says he won't nationalize property

Colombian presidential frontrunner Gustavo Petro pledged that he will not nationalize private property if he wins the nation’s presidency this year as critics in the South American country accuse the leftist candidate of wanting to make radical changes to the country’s free market economy

The Independent UK

Senator Mike Lee warned that Trump’s efforts to overturn election ‘could backfire badly’ after initially backing them, text messages reveal

‘This will not inure to the benefit of the president’

The Independent UK

Factbox-France's hardleft Melenchon promises guaranteed jobs, capital controls

Jean-Luc Melenchon, a hardleft veteran and longtime admirer of the late Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro and Venezuelan former president Hugo Chavez, is polling third in France's presidential race.

Reuters

Venezuela grapples with endless crisis

An oil producer hard hit by the slump in global prices, Venezuela has seen its economy gradually deteriorate over the past decade, with international economic sanctions aggravating the crisis. The late former president Hugo Chavez, in power from 1999 to 2013, wanted to make his country the home of "21st…

France 24

Venezuela's Guaidó, opposition seek to unite under big tent

The Venezuelan opposition was re-energized recently by an unexpected gubernatorial victory in the home state of the late President Hugo Chavez

The Independent UK

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