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Opinion | Out of Good Options for Venezuela We should encourage all Venezuelans — including soldiers — to restore their country’s democracy.

PDVSA Learns That Conoco Pain May Be Worse Than U.S. Sanctions

PDVSA Learns That Conoco Pain May Be Worse Than U.S. Sanctions | InterAmerican Security Watch ConocoPhillips may finish what U.S. sanctions started. The Houston-based company on Friday assumed control of Venezuela’s oil assets in the Caribbean island of Bonaire and filed court orders to do the same in Curacao and Aruba. The takeover is effectively stifling Petroleos de Venezuela SA’s abi...

Turns to I.M.F., Long Its Villain, as Its Peso Plummets

Argentina Turns to I.M.F., Long Its Villain, as Its Peso Plummets | InterAmerican Security Watch Argentina has begun negotiating for a line of credit with the International Monetary Fund, turning to the very organization that much of the country still blames for an economic implosion and debt default 17 years ago.

Soldiers Desert in Droves With Presidential Election Ahead

Venezuelan Soldiers Desert in Droves With Presidential Election Ahead | InterAmerican Security Watch Military officers are joining the exodus of Venezuelans to Colombia and Brazil, fleeing barracks and forcing President Nicolas Maduro’s government to call upon retirees and militia to fill the void.

Business Hates ’s Presidential Front-Runner. And He Doesn’t Care

Business Hates Mexico’s Presidential Front-Runner. And He Doesn’t Care | InterAmerican Security Watch Andrés Manuel López Obrador, sharing a stage with crates of coconuts and limes, looks out upon a crowd of thousands: a sea of sombreros bobbing in the sun. They’re farmers, mostly—or used to be, before the North American Free Trade Agreement upended the old traditions here in the Mexican heart...

12 tons of co***ne, worth $360 million, seized in massive raid

12 tons of co***ne, worth $360 million, seized in massive Colombia raid | InterAmerican Security Watch Colombian authorities seized 12 tons of co***ne worth an estimated $360 million in the country’s largest-ever drug bust — and they put the goods on display.

Exclusive: ’s PDVSA misses debt payments to India’s top oil producer

Exclusive: Venezuela’s PDVSA misses debt payments to India’s top oil producer | InterAmerican Security Watch NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Venezuelan state oil-firm PDVSA has not made debt payments to India’s top oil producer ONGC (ONGC.NS) for six months, and has previously used a Russian state-owned bank and another Indian energy company as intermediaries to make payments, two sources familiar with the transacti...

Why ’s Sliding Toward Dictatorship, Default

Why Venezuela’s Sliding Toward Dictatorship, Default: QuickTake | InterAmerican Security Watch Venezuela has more oil than Saudi Arabia and more poverty than Brazil. Its previous leader, the late Hugo Chavez, sought to use the country’s reserves to light a leftist path to prosperity for Latin America’s poor. Under his protege and successor, Nicolas Maduro, Venezuela hasn’t always been able to...

U.S. plans to end temporary residency permit program for

U.S. plans to end temporary residency permit program for Nicaragua | InterAmerican Security Watch The Trump administration is planning a January 2019 end to a temporary residency permit program for 5,000 citizens from Nicaragua who have lived in the United States for almost two decades.

"New evidence of criminality in ’s military emerges" via

New evidence of criminality in Venezuela’s military emerges | InterAmerican Security Watch A leaked internal memo obtained by the Miami Herald reveals the prevalence of theft and corruption perpetrated by soldiers in the Venezuelan military. In the memo to the Venezuelan Minister of Defense, chief prosecutor of the military Edgar José Rojas Borges raises his concerns over the frequent inc...

New probe says prosecutor Nisman was murdered

New Argentina probe says prosecutor Nisman was murdered | InterAmerican Security Watch BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — A new police report has dramatically revived one of the greatest criminal mysteries in Argentine history — the possible murder of a crusading prosecutor that has roused grave suspicions about a president and added to doubts about the probe into the country’s most deadl...

Drug Kingpin Leading Venezuelan Bond Talks Has a Violent Streak

Drug Kingpin Leading Venezuelan Bond Talks Has a Violent Streak | InterAmerican Security Watch Vice President Tareck El Aissami has summoned bondholders to a meeting in Caracas as Venezuela prepares to restructure its crushing debt. For some, the meeting could land them behind bars.