Assurances from the Trump administration and a $40 billion bailout from U.S. taxpayers could not stop the devaluation of the country’s peso last week as foreign investors took positions that the currency will weaken even more in the next quarter.
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U.S. TO SEND AIRCRAFT CARRIER TO JOIN TRUMP’S ILLEGAL KILLING CAMPAIGN IN CARIBBEAN
The Pentagon announced Friday that the U.S. will position the USS Gerald R. Ford in the U.S. Southern Command to ostensibly join the fight against the drug trade in the region, but seen as President Donald Trump’s revamped effort to oust Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro—which has been a goal since his previous term.
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“I’M NOT GOING TO START A WAR” TRUMP CARRIES OUT 83rd AIRSTRIKE ON SOMALIA SINCE TAKING OFFICE
The U.S. military carried out its 83rd airstrike in Somalia since the beginning of the year, claiming to target an ISIS affiliate in a mountainous region of the country, outside the town of Bossaso, according to AntiWar.com.
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VENEZUELA SAYS U.S. IS PLANNING A ‘FALSE FLAG’ ATTACK, CLAIMS TO HAVE CAPTURED CIA GROUP
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro said Sunday that his security agencies nabbed a group of hired mercenaries with direct ties to the CIA and said the U.S. military has been planning a “false flag” attack—possibly from Trinidad and Tobago to generate a “full-scale military confrontation,” the Miami Herald reported on Monday.
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TRUMP UNLEASHES THE CIA ON VENEZUELA
It is particularly difficult to pick out the most idiotic comments made by President Donald Trump over the past week as there is so much to choose from.
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CHINA’S CURBS ON RARE EARTH EXPORTS MAY “BREAK” GLOBAL SUPPLY CHAINS
China’s new restrictions on exports of rare earth elements crucial in products from smartphones to radar systems and medical devices will lead to “broken” supply chains and hike prices around the world for tech products, industry leaders have warned.
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TRUMP CUTS OFF ALL PAYMENTS, SUBSIDIES TO COLOMBIA AFTER PRESIDENT CRITICIZES U.S. STRIKES IN THE CARIBBEAN
U.S. President Donald Trump cut off Colombia from all U.S. payments and subsidies, claiming its president, Gustavo Petro, is a “drug leader” who “does nothing” to stop the country’s illegal drug operations.
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TRUMP’S THIEL PAL SEES BANK GET GREEN LIGHT FROM WATCHDOG
Erebor, a bank launched by members of Peter Thiel’s PayPal—and staunch supporters of President Donald Trump—was granted “preliminary and conditional” approval by the Comptroller of the Currency, an agency within the Treasury Department, according to the Financial Times.
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TRUMP SAYS INDIA WILL HALT RUSSIAN OIL IMPORTS, SURPRISING NEW DELHI
U.S. President Donald Trump told reporters last week that India will be stopping its Russian oil trade, which seemed to catch New Delhi by surprise.
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TAKE 2: TRUMP PLANS NEW SUMMIT WITH PUTIN AFTER ALASKA BUST
U.S. President Donald Trump announced last week that he held a productive phone conversation with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, and the two plan on meeting in Hungary to talk about resolving the Ukraine War.