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☆ Cuba Spy Station Brings China Rivalry to America’s Doorstep
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-09 | by ( Charles Hutzler | Kejal Vyas | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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Title 42, which allows U.S. authorities to quickly expel migrants on public health grounds, is set to expire May 11. Migrants expelled from U.S. and sent back to Mexico walk across border bridge in Ciudad Juárez. Photo: José Luis González/Reuters

METETÍ, Panama—Five months ago, the Barrios family fled economic calamity in Venezuela along with 7.2 million fellow citizens. In April, they picked up again, this time from the country that had taken them in, Colombia. Unable to get the documentation they needed to legalize their status, Franklin Barrios and Rebeca Herrera joined thousands of other Venezuelans leaving Colombia and trying to make it to the U.S., say migrant advocates and the Venezuelan travelers themselves.

An additional 1,500 active-duty troops will temporarily support missions at the southern border, a Pentagon official said Tuesday. Photo: Jorge Duenes/ReutersNext week’s expiration of Title 42 border policy has altered the plans of many U.S.-bound migrants, with some now aiming to cross into the U.S. illegally ahead of the policy change and others planning to follow a new, slower process for seeking asylum. The Title 42 pandemic-era policy allows U.S. authorities to quickly expel migrants on public health grounds and is set to expire May 11. After that date, those who cross the border illegally will be held to a higher initial asylum standard—which most migrants are expected not to pass—and could be quickly deported from the U.S.

☆ Venezuela Oil Minister Resigns Amid Widening Corruption Probe
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-20 | by ( Kejal Vyas | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Tareck El Aissami said that he resigned to facilitate a government anticorruption probe. Venezuela’s oil minister resigned Monday amid a widening campaign by President Nicolás Maduro to root out corruption in the government and the national oil company, which in recent days has led to the arrests of several government officials on graft charges. Tareck El Aissami , who had held high posts in government and long been among Mr. Maduro’s closest confidants, said on Twitter that he was stepping down from his post to facilitate the government’s anticorruption probe into state-run Petróleos de Venezuela, or PdVSA. He couldn’t be reached to comment.

☆ Venezuela’s Oil Industry, Reopening to Investors, Is Major Polluter
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-22 | by ( Kejal Vyas | Patricia Garip | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Venezuela’s oil industry suffers from maintenance and management problems, a likely challenge for Western companies looking to resume work there. Across Venezuela’s once-thriving oil industry, environmentalists say rusty pipelines and storage tanks routinely leak contaminants into the ground. Frequent spills stain the mangroves of national parks with oil. Refinery explosions in recent years have sent black smoke billowing into the sky. And Venezuela’s national oil company, unable to process the natural gas that is a byproduct of oil production, burns enough each day to supply the state of Georgia.

☆ Venezuela’s U.S.-Backed Opposition Removes Juan Guaidó as Its Leader
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-31 | by ( Kejal Vyas | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Venezuela’s biggest opposition parties voted to remove Juan Guaidó as their leader, marking an end to a bold, U.S.-backed political gambit in which he was recognized as the country’s legitimate president as part of an unsuccessful bid to oust authoritarian Nicolás Maduro from power. Lawmakers, scattered in exile around the world, voted in a Zoom call to restructure their movement, removing Mr. Guaidó and eliminating the so-called interim government he leads. The interim government had been recognized as Venezuela’s legitimate government by more than 60 countries when it was created in early 2019. But now, the U.S. and only a handful of allies continue to recognize the Guaido-led movement, while Mr. Maduro maintains an ironclad grip on the country with support from Russia, Iran and China.

☆ Argentina’s World Cup Champions Airlifted From Celebration as Fans Slow Caravan
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-20 | by ( Kejal Vyas | Silvina Frydlewsky | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

BUENOS AIRES—The plan was straightforward: Members of Argentina’s World Cup championship team, smiling and waving from atop an open-air, double-decker bus, would take a 50-mile victory lap through the vast capital to celebrate with fans. Millions poured into the streets to greet them.

☆ Argentines Celebrate First World Cup Title Win Since 1986
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-18 | by ( Kejal Vyas | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

BUENOS AIRES—From parks to packed bars to people’s homes, Argentines celebrated wildly as the national team led by Lionel Messi beat France in a penalty shootout in the World Cup, giving a much-needed lift to a country traversing a painful economic crisis. Dust filled the air as fans jumped up and down in parks outfitted with jumbotrons in the nation’s capital. Fans outfitted in the team’s blue-and-white jerseys embraced each other and cried tears of joy after a tense finish. In parks and city streets, they sprayed foam out of aerosol cans, waved the national flag and chanted, “Messi’s bringing home the World Cup,” as the last penalty hit the back of the net.

☆ Argentina in World Cup Final Gives Tired Nation a Reason to Celebrate
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-17 | by ( Kejal Vyas | Sylvina Frydlewsky | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

BUENOS AIRES—In a working-class neighborhood of dirt streets and broken sidewalks, Pablo Martínez donned the white-and-blue jersey of Argentina’s national team to grill chicken at a soup kitchen he helps run for families struggling amid a punishing economic crisis. With galloping inflation and economic stagnation pushing 43% of the population into poverty, the number of hungry children showing up to his cafeteria on the outskirts of the capital has been rising, Mr. Martinez said. The daily hardship he and his neighbors face in a poor barrio is leaving an indelible impact.

☆ Argentine Court Sentences Vice President Cristina Kirchner to Six Years in Prison
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-06 | by ( Kejal Vyas | Silvina Frydlewsky | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina—A federal court on Tuesday convicted Vice President Cristina Kirchner of fraud charges and sentenced her to six years in prison for embezzling money through public-construction contracts, a blow for a leftist government grappling with soaring inflation and one of the worst economic crises in two decades. A three-judge panel said Mrs. Kirchner, along with several other former aides, would be permanently banned from holding public office, capping a long-running graft case against Argentina’s most prominent and polarizing politician. Mrs. Kirchner served as president for two terms from 2007 to 2015 before becoming the first vice president in the country to be tried and convicted on graft charges while in office.

☆ Venezuela Opposition Leader Juan Guaidó Vows to Fight On
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-10 | by ( Kejal Vyas | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó keeps in his office a countdown to 2024, when presidential elections are supposed to take place. CARACAS, Venezuela—Hunched over a tablet at his office in a rundown shopping center, the man the U.S. considers Venezuela’s legitimate president watched videos of the country’s authoritarian leader, Nicolás Maduro, as he shook hands with world leaders at the United Nations climate summit in Egypt. It was the latest sign of the isolated situation for Juan Guaidó as the head of Venezuela’s opposition, which despite widespread support at home and abroad has been unable to remove Mr. Maduro from office.

☆ Colombia Unnerves Markets With Higher Taxes on Oil, Wealth to Boost Antipoverty Spending
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-05 | by ( Kejal Vyas | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

BOGOTÁ, Colombia—Colombia is set to increase taxes on wealthy individuals and extractive industries to pay for antipoverty and rural development initiatives, as the leftist government grapples with a fall in the peso that has outpaced that of most emerging market currencies. Investor concerns over the government’s progressive platform are overblown, Finance Minister José Antonio Ocampo said in an interview Friday. He said critics are generating hysteria that has led to a 20% drop in the peso’s value against the U.S. dollar since President Gustavo Petro took office Aug. 7.

☆ Colombia, Venezuela Leaders Meet Amid Thawing Relations
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-01 | by ( Kejal Vyas | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

BOGOTÁ, Colombia—The leaders of Colombia and Venezuela met Tuesday for the first time in six years, the latest sign of how new leftist governments in Latin America are breaking from a U.S.-led campaign that unsuccessfully sought to oust Venezuela’s authoritarian President Nicolás Maduro . Colombian President Gustavo Petro , a former guerrilla who once held close ties to Venezuela’s ruling socialist party, traveled to Caracas to have lunch with Mr. Maduro and discuss bilateral trade. Mr. Petro said he would also call on Mr. Maduro to commit to promoting democracy in the region and ending political persecution.

☆ Freed From Venezuelan Jail, Houston Oil Executive Describes Being Used as a Bargaining Chip
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-23 | by ( Ryan Dube | Kejal Vyas | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Jose Pereira, wearing mask, and five other oil executives who were summoned to Caracas and detained for nearly five years until their release earlier this month, in a photo posted on Twitter by Venezuela’s foreign minister in 2020. For nearly five years, Houston oil executive Jose Pereira was jailed in Venezuela, spending long stretches in isolation in an underground cell, deprived of medication and surviving on chicken scraps and rice. In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Mr. Pereira said he had lost 100 pounds and survived two bouts of Covid-19 and a heart attack by the time he was freed earlier this month, after high-level talks between the Biden administration and Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro ’s authoritarian regime.

☆ Venezuela Opposition Parties Aim to Remove Juan Guaidó as Leader
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-21 | by ( Kejal Vyas | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

Juan Guaidó in Caracas last month. In 2019, the U.S. and dozens of other countries recognized him as Venezuela’s legitimate president. Venezuela’s biggest opposition parties are moving to remove Juan Guaidó as their leader and phase out a U.S.-led strategy in which he was recognized as the legitimate president in an effort to remove Nicolás Maduro from power, according to several people familiar with the discussions. Leaders of three of the largest parties that make up the opposition coalition said during meetings in Panama last week that they would no longer support Mr. Guaidó as the so-called interim president after his term expires on Jan. 5, these people said. While there was no formal vote on the measure, the main parties—A New Era, Democratic Action and Justice First—control a majority of Venezuela’s exiled congress, whose support is essential for Mr. Guaidó to continue in office.

☆ Flooding in Venezuela Kills at Least 36, Leaves Town Covered in Mud
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-11 | by ( Kejal Vyas | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

People clear debris Monday after the overflow of the Los Patos stream and landslide, in Las Tejerías, Venezuela. Flooding and mudslides have killed at least 36 people in a Venezuelan industrial town, authorities said Monday, as rescue teams searched through sludge and debris for dozens of people reported missing. Aid groups warned that the death toll could rise further amid rescue efforts in the north-central town of Las Tejerías, where mud covered whole neighborhoods during torrential rain over the weekend. Interior Minister Remigio Ceballos said at least 56 people have been reported missing in the town and surrounding region.

☆ Colombia Reopens Border With Venezuela in Bid to Mend Ties With U.S. Adversary
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-26 | by ( Kejal Vyas | Jenny Carolina González | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Colombian and Venezuelan officials watched the first truck cross a bridge connecting the two countries during a Monday ceremony to open their land border. CÚCUTA, Colombia—Colombia and Venezuela on Monday reopened their 1,400-mile border after it was closed for seven years as the new leftist government in Bogotá took a major step toward normalizing relations with a regime that the U.S. has accused of narco-trafficking and rights abuses. Surrounded by crowds of cheering onlookers, Colombian President Gustavo Petro met on the Simón Bolívar International Bridge with Venezuelan officials, as they held up the peace sign and sang their national anthems before the first Venezuelan cargo truck carrying steel crossed over the bridge into Colombia.

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