Trump predicted $100 billion in oil investment. ExxonMobil’s CEO called Venezuela “uninvestable.” Chevron says it can double production almost immediately, while wildcatters say their phones are ringing. So who is actually going to rebuild Venezuela's oil sector?
“The hemisphere must be cleansed of communists,” Costa Rica’s president declared Wednesday as his country becomes the latest Latin American nation to close its embassy in Havana and expel Cuba’s diplomatic mission
Vladimir Padrino López ran Venezuela’s armed forces for more than a decade. He survived Maduro, the coup attempt, U.S. sanctions, and January 3. He did not survive Delcy Rodríguez’s consolidation of power
Iran called it an “unforgivable red line.” Milei called it the truth. Argentina is the only country in South America that Iran has formally designated as an enemy
El Salvador just made life imprisonment the law of the land. The same country that has arrested more than 91,000, giving the nation the title for the world's highest incarceration rate. The results are real. So are the questions about how they are achieved
Venezuela just put a man named Chávez back in charge of one of America’s largest oil refiners. Whether he actually gets to run it depends on a Treasury Department license that Washington has not yet issued
Colombia’s president called Donald Trump to prevent a war with a U.S.-backed neighbor. Twenty-seven charred bodies found near the border. Troops deployed & a 2008 precedent that nearly triggered a regional military confrontation
Ronald Ojeda survived torture, a prison escape, and years of exile before being abducted in front of his wife and child in Santiago and buried under concrete. Now Chile wants Maduro to answer for it
Chile has its most conservative president since Pinochet. A border barrier is already under construction. Six emergency decrees were signed on day one. And the transition from Boric was so turbulent that Kast walked out of handover talks
Washington has told Havana what it will cost to turn the lights back on: Díaz-Canel must go. Trump says he can do “anything he wants” with Cuba. And on Monday, the entire island went dark
Cuba went completely dark on Monday. Every light on the island went out simultaneously—the first total grid collapse since the U.S. oil blockade began. The pots will bang again tonight
The fires in Morón's Communist Party headquarters had barely been extinguished when the pots started banging in Havana. Cuba’s energy crisis has become a political uprising—and Trump says a deal is coming either way
