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Wright arrived in Caracas on Wednesday and was meeting with acting President Delcy Rodríguez at the Miraflores palace. He plans a three-day trip that includes meetings with officials and oil executives. The U.S. Energy Department says he also visits oil fields tied to a U.S.-Venezuela energy deal.
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A team of researchers say that human-caused climate change had an important impact on the recent ferocious wildfires that engulfed parts of Chile and Argentina's Patagonia region, making the extremely high-risk conditions that led to widespread burning up to three times more likely than in a world without global warming.
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This was Puerto Rico's moment, a spotlight on a collective son who quit bagging groceries a decade ago and became the world's most streamed artist on Spotify last year.
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Venezuela's top prosecutor says his office has requested the arrest of Juan Pablo Guanipa, a close ally of opposition leader María Corina Machado. This move comes less than 12 hours after Guanipa was released from detention as part of a government strategy to free detainees who are facing politically motivated accusations.
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Nicaragua's government on Sunday blocked Cuban citizens from entering the country without a visa, effectively cutting off a key route for Cuban migration to the United States at a time when the Trump administration has put the Caribbean island in an economic chokehold.
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Miami mayor slams Trump for asking federal judge to end TPS for Haitians during court appeal processMiami Mayor Eileen Higgins condemned the Trump administration's decision to appeal a federal judge's ruling protecting Haitian immigrants nationwide from being deported.
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Gov. Ron DeSantis took part in a dedication of a statue for President Ronald Reagan at Florida International University on Friday as part of his commemoration of the nation’s 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. FIU officials also announced a new initiative aimed at supporting Cuba’s transition to democracy.
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One of the top artists in the world, Bad Bunny performs primarily in Spanish and has been critical of immigration enforcement, which factored into the backlash in some conservative circles to the choice. But for the NFL hierarchy, this was likely a business decision, not a political one.
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COMMENTARY As the U.S. cuts off global oil to Cuba, the island's communist regime could get President Trump to back off by offering something he's showing special interest in: dictatorship consulting.
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Miami-based global cruise company Royal Caribbean plans to build a massive water park private destination in Mahahual, a small town on Mexico’s coast, creating deep divisions within the community. Those concerns intensified after a federal judge ordered a permanent halt to land-use changes, freezing the project amid legal and environmental questions.
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An Argentine judge has requested the extradition from the United States of former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, who was captured by the U.S. military last month and now faces federal charges of narco-terrorism and conspiracy to import cocaine in New York.
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President Donald Trump met on Tuesday with Colombian President Gustavo Petro at the White House for two hours. Trump said afterward that he'd previously clashed with Petro because he didn't know him, but during the talks "I thought he was terrific." Petro said the pair emerged "with a positive and optimistic view."