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Venezuela tops Nicaragua 4-1 to improve to 3-0 at World Baseball Classic
MIAMI, FLORIDA - MARCH 14: Ronald Acuña Jr. #42 of Team Venezuela at bat against Team Nicaragua during eighth inning in a World Baseball Classic Pool D game at loanDepot park on March 14, 2023 in Miami, Florida. (Photo by Megan Briggs/Getty Images)
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Everything you need to know about the World Baseball Classic
MESA, ARIZONA - MARCH 07: Freddie Freeman #5 of Team Canada works out ahead of the World Baseball Classic at Sloan Park on March 07, 2023 in Mesa, Arizona. (Photo by Chris Coduto/Getty Images)
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Blue Jays sign nine international free agents, eight from Venezuela, one from Brazil
The Blue Jays logo is pictured ahead of MLB baseball action in Toronto on Wednesday, April 27, 2022. The Toronto Blue Jays agreed to terms with nine international free agents on Monday. Eight of the players are from Venezuela and one is from Brazil. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Christopher Katsarov
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Evening Update: For Venezuelans, Colombia’s roads lead to hope and danger
Venezuelan migrant Jose Hernandez, 25, attempts to grab a ride on a moving truck while making the difficult journey on foot from the Venezuelan border to the Colombian city of Medellin, on Nov. 30, 2022. The roads of Colombia are packed with Venezuelans who have left their country after its economic collapse seven years ago. THE GLOBE AND MAIL/GORAN TOMASEVIC
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Canada’s World Cup-bound men’s basketball team to play Spain, Argentina in friendlies
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Venezuelan opposition strips Juan Guaidó of ‘presidential’ role
FILE - Opposition leader Juan Guaido explains the income and expenses of his self-proclaimed, parallel government in Caracas, Venezuela, Sept. 16, 2022. Guaido declared himself Venezuela’s interim president in January 2019, arguing that in his capacity as then-president of the country’s National Assembly the constitution allowed him to form a transitional government because Nicolas Maduro had been re-elected in a sham vote in late 2018. Dozens of countries, including the U.S., Canada and Colombia, supported Guaido’s move and began recognizing him as Venezuela’s legitimate leader. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos, File)
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Desperate for oil, Joe Biden throws Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro a lifeline
Konrad Yakabuski
basketball
Canada’s men qualify for FIBA World Cup with 94-56 win over Venezuela
Team Canada's Kassius Robertson (0) tries to get past Team Venezuela's Nestor Colmenares (43) during second half FIBA World Cup Qualifiers basketball action in Edmonton on Thursday, November 10, 2022.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jason Franson
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Back from Russia, guard Kenny Chery ready to help Canada qualify for FIBA World Cup
Brazil's Didi Louzada attempts a basket against Canada during their FIBA Men's AmeriCup semifinal game in Recife, Pernambuco state, Brazil, on September 10, 2022. (Photo by NELSON ALMEIDA / AFP) (Photo by NELSON ALMEIDA/AFP via Getty Images)
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Rain-fuelled landslide sweeps through Venezuela town, leaving 25 dead
A rescue member and locals rest following a landslide due to heavy rains, in Las Tejerias, Aragua state, Venezuela October 9, 2022. REUTERS/Leonardo Fernandez Viloria
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Venezuela swaps seven jailed Americans for Maduro relatives
FILE - This undated file photo posted on Twitter on June 18, 2020, by Venezuela's Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza, shows CITGO oil executives Jose Angel Pereira, from left to right, Gustavo Cardenas, Jorge Toledo, Jose Luis Zambrano, Tomeu Vadell and Alirio Jose Zambrano, standing outside the Bolivarian National Intelligence Service, in Caracas, Venezuela. On Saturday, Oct. 1, 2022, Venezuela freed seven Americans, including five oil executives imprisoned for nearly five years, in exchange for the release of two nephews of President Nicholas Maduro's wife who had been jailed for years by the United States on drug smuggling convictions. (Posted on Twitter by Jorge Arreaza/Venezuela's Foreign Ministry via AP File)
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Venezuela releases seven jailed Americans; U.S. frees two prisoners
FILE - This undated file photo posted on Twitter on June 18, 2020, by Venezuela's Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza, shows CITGO oil executives Jose Angel Pereira, from left to right, Gustavo Cardenas, Jorge Toledo, Jose Luis Zambrano, Tomeu Vadell and Alirio Jose Zambrano, standing outside the Bolivarian National Intelligence Service, in Caracas, Venezuela. On Saturday, Oct. 1, 2022, Venezuela freed seven Americans, including five oil executives imprisoned for nearly five years, in exchange for the release of two nephews of President Nicholas Maduro's wife who had been jailed for years by the United States on drug smuggling convictions. (Posted on Twitter by Jorge Arreaza/Venezuela's Foreign Ministry via AP File)
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Rights abuses continue in Maduro’s Venezuela: UN experts
Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro speaks during a meeting for the 62th anniversary of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) at the Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas, on September 14, 2022. (Photo by Federico PARRA / AFP) (Photo by FEDERICO PARRA/AFP via Getty Images)
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Rays makes history by starting nine Latin American players
Sep 15, 2022; Toronto, Ontario, CAN; Tampa Bay Rays players of Latin American descent pose for a group photo after defeating Toronto Blue Jays 11-0 at Rogers Centre. The Rays fielded the first ever starting team of Latin American descent. From left are catcher Rene Pinto (50), third baseman Yandy Diaz (2), shortstop Wander Franco (5) second baseman Isaac Paredes (17), left fielder David Peralta (6), first baseman Harold Ramirez (43), center fielder Jose Siri (22), designated hitter Manuel Margot (13) and right fielder Randy Arozarena (56). Mandatory Credit: Dan Hamilton-USA TODAY Sports
international business
Chevron applies for Venezuela license renewal, proposes wider business
FILE PHOTO: The logo of Chevron is seen at the company's office in Caracas, Venezuela April 25, 2018. REUTERS/Marco Bello/File Photo
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Cuba gets help from Mexico, Venezuela to fight oil fire
View of the massive fire at a fuel depot in Matanzas, Cuba, on August 7, 2022. - Planes with products, firefighters and specialists from Mexico and Venezuela arrived in Cuba to help put out this Sunday the fire of two oil tanks, which enters its third day with one dead, 17 missing and 36 hospitalized. (Photo by YAMIL LAGE / AFP) (Photo by YAMIL LAGE/AFP via Getty Images)
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Ex-rebel Gustavo Petro sworn in as Colombia’s president in historic shift
Colombia's President-elect Gustavo Petro speaks to students at Externado University in Bogota, Colombia, Tuesday, July 26, 2022. Petro gave a talk to students at his alma mater where he studied economics, ahead of his Aug. 7 inauguration. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)
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Venezuelan migrants in Peru struggle to find stability
Luz (can not use last name), a Venezuelan migrant, works in her t-shirt-making and printing business in Lima, Peru.
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Venezuela says it investigating slaying of Indigenous leader
energy and resources
Venezuelan, Iranian oil could ease energy crisis, OPEC’s Barkindo says
OPEC Secretary General Mohammad Barkindo attends a session during Egypt's 5th Petroleum Show "EGYPS 2022" at the capital city of Cairo, Egypt, February 14, 2022. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh/Files
international business
Production at Venezuela’s largest refinery hit by blackout
FILE PHOTO: A general view of the Amuay refinery complex which belongs to the Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA in Punto Fijo, Venezuela November 17, 2016. REUTERS/Carlos Garcia Rawlins/File Photo
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Colombia’s Gustavo Petro, Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro discuss re-establishing normal relations at border
Colombian soldiers stand guard near the Simon Bolivar International Bridge before the closing of the Colombia-Venezuela border ahead of the June 19 run-off, in Cucuta, Colombia, on June 17, 2022. - Colombians head to the polls on June 19 for a run-off to choose their new president, either leftist former guerrilla Gustavo Petro or eccentric millionaire construction mogul Rodolfo Hernandez. (Photo by Schneyder MENDOZA / AFP) (Photo by SCHNEYDER MENDOZA/AFP via Getty Images)
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Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó attacked during national tour
CARACAS, VENEZUELA - JULY 05: Opposition leader and president of the National Assembly Juan Guaidó speaks at the end of a demonstration near the DGSIM as part of the 208th anniversary of the Venezuelan Independence declaration on July 5, 2019 in Caracas, Venezuela. Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó and several NGO called for a demonstration after the death of Captain Rafael Acosta Arévalo on June 28, who was under arrest by the Venezuelan military counterintelligence department (DGCIM) since June 21. The motto of the protest is "No more torture" and people walk from the UN Development Program office in Caracas to the DGCIM building. On the other hand, chairman of the Constituent Assembly Diosdado Cabello called supporters to a military parade at Paseo de Los Próceres and a demonstration to the west side of Caracas. (Photo by Edilzon Gamez/Getty Images)
energy and resources
U.S. to let Eni SpA, Repsol ship Venezuela oil to Europe for debt, sources say
Eni's Bouri Offshore oil terminal is seen off the Libyan coast, in the Mediterranean sea. The Italian energy company Eni SpA announced it has discovered a "supergiant" natural gas field off Egypt, describing it as the "largest-ever" found in the Mediterranean Sea.
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Canada’s flawed Latin America policy demands a reset – and distance from the U.S.
John M. Kirk
energy and resources
Oil falls 2.5% as U.S. refiners ramp up output, equities retreat
FILE PHOTO: An aerial view shows an oil factory of Idemitsu Kosan Co. in Ichihara, east of Tokyo, Japan November 12, 2021, in this photo taken by Kyodo. Mandatory credit Kyodo/via REUTERS
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U.S. to ease a few economic sanctions against Venezuela in bid to encourage resumed talks
(FILES) File photo taken on November 14, 2017 of the logo of Venezuelan state-owned oil company PDVSA, seen at a gas station in Caracas. - Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro announced on May 11, 2022 that Venezuela will start offering state-owned companies´ stock for sale, in an attempt to raise capitals. (Photo by Federico PARRA / AFP) (Photo by FEDERICO PARRA/AFP via Getty Images)
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Timely doc !Viva Maestro! looks at incredible moment in history through lens of classical music
¡Viva Maestro! (Documentary). A portrait of the Los Angeles Philharmonic music and artistic director Gustavo Dudamel. Courtesy of Greenwich Entertainment
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White House says Venezuela has freed two detained Americans
In this summer 2016 photo provided by Maria Elena Cardenas shows her, far left, and her husband Gustavo Cardenas, far right, with their children Maria, left, Gus, right, and Sergio, below, as they vacation in Austria. Since Venezuela's government arrested Gustavo and five other Citgo employees in November 2017 in Caracas, their 18-year-old son Sergio, who suffers from a rare metabolic disease called mucolipidosis, has been having panic attacks and screaming at night for his Dad. Maria fears that he could die before his father’s release. (Maria Elena Cardenas via AP)
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Possible Russia oil embargo drives US outreach to Venezuela
FILE PHOTO: A worker walks past the Petrozuata Oil Refinery in the Orinoco oil belt in the Venezuelan eastern state of Anzoategui, February 13, 2001./File Photo
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Venezuela recall faces ‘impossible’ conditions; turnout low
A woman walks past a mural portraying the eyes of late Venezuelan president (2002-2013) Hugo Chavez that reads "True Democracy", in downtown Caracas on January 26, 2022. - Collection points to activate a recall referendum against Maduro were empty Wednesday after the opposition called against the participation in the campaign for considering the conditions settled make it impossible. (Photo by Federico PARRA / AFP) (Photo by FEDERICO PARRA/AFP via Getty Images)
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Venezuela’s president to visit Iran ‘very soon’
On this handout picture released by the Venezuelan Presidency, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro delivers a speech during the award ceremony of the National Science and Technology Awards, at the Teresa Carreno Theater in Caracas, on December 22, 2021. - Venezuela detected the first seven cases of the Omicron variant of the Coronavirus, President Nicolas Maduro announced on Wednesday. (Photo by ZURIMAR CAMPOS / Venezuelan Presidency / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE-MANDATORY CREDIT - AFP PHOTO / VENEZUELAN PRESIDENCY - NO MAFRKETING - NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS (Photo by ZURIMAR CAMPOS/Venezuelan Presidency/AFP via Getty Images)
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In new blow to Venezuelan opposition, major leader quits interim government
(FILES) In this file photo taken on September 18, 2019 Venezuelan opposition member Julio Borges, appointed by opposition leader Juan Guaido as Commissioner for Foreign Affairs, gestures during a press conference in Bogota. - The interim government headed since January 2019 by opposition leader Juan Guaidó must "disappear" because "it has been deformed", Julio Borges, former president of Venezuela's parliament, said on December 5, 2021, two weeks after a crushing opposition defeat in regional elections. (Photo by Juan BARRETO / AFP) (Photo by JUAN BARRETO/AFP via Getty Images)
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Conditions to restart talks with opposition not there yet, Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro says
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro speaks during a press conference at a polling station after voting in Fuerte Tiuna in Caracas, on November 21, 2021. - Venezuela elects governors and mayors this Sunday with the participation of the opposition, which breaks years of electoral boycott and calls for abstention, in a process that also brings the return of international observers after more than a decade of absence. (Photo by Yuri CORTEZ / AFP) (Photo by YURI CORTEZ/AFP via Getty Images)
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Venezuelans vote in regional election under international eye
Venezuelans line up to vote during regional elections, at a polling station in Caracas, Venezuela, Sunday, Nov. 21, 2021. Venezuelans go to the polls to elect state governors and other local officials. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)