Héctor Sánchez On October 12, 1492, Christopher Columbus landed on a Caribbean island, convinced—as official school history textbooks taught us—that he had reached the Indies. He brought glass necklaces and little mirrors, along with, of course, weapons and devastating diseases. In exchange for these trinkets, he seized the gold, the land, and the destiny of […]
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The Daily Journal.— President Donald Trump’s administration seeks greater U.S. access to Venezuela’s mineral resources, including gold, after securing control over 65 billion barrels of the South American country’s proven oil reserves. In that regard, the U.S. administration has expanded its efforts to gain influence over the Caribbean nation’s vast natural resources beyond hydrocarbons, according […]
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María Alejandra Díaz Marín. – The bilateral understanding recently circulated on social media, which reportedly proposes majority U.S. control over more than 65 billion barrels of Venezuelan oil reserves in exchange for $100 billion, demands rigorous legal, constitutional and financial scrutiny. If its terms prove accurate, we would face a transaction with enormous consequences for […]
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