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El Periodico USA Featured January 31, 2025

Trump says immigrant deportations focus on criminals. But is that true?

Andres Oppenheimer What irony! President Trump is reportedly detaining undocumented immigrants with no criminal records who do jobs that Americans
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El Periodico USA Featured January 28, 2025

Trump’s dismissive comment about Latin America will hurt U.S. interests

Andres Oppenheimer President Trump’s reaction when asked about his government’s future relations with Latin America — “we don’t need them”
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El Periodico USA Featured January 21, 2025

Scared of Trump? Don’t move overseas yet — he won’t be a dictator on day

Andres Oppenheimer We should all wish President-elect Trump good luck and a successful four years in power. But, at the
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El Periodico USA Featured January 18, 2025

Will Trump support a military intervention in Venezuela? A former aide is skeptical

Andres Oppenheimer Former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe and other political figures are calling for a military intervention in Venezuela following
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El Periodico USA Featured January 15, 2025

Shame on Mexico, Brazil and Colombia. They validated Venezuela’s dictatorship

Andres Oppenheimer The left-of-center leaders of Mexico, Brazil and Colombia have just made a mockery of their claims to support
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El Periodico USA Featured January 11, 2025

Trump’s failure to receive Venezuela’s opposition leader was a major blunder

Andres Oppenheimer President Biden’s 30-minute meeting in the White House Monday with Venezuela’s opposition leader Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia sent a
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El Periodico USA Featured December 31, 2024

Trump risks pushing Panama toward China with his threat to retake the Canal

Andres Oppenheimer When I interviewed Panama’s President José Raul Mulino shortly after president-elect Donald Trump uttered his threat to retake
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El Periodico USA Featured December 26, 2024

These two countries may be Latin America’s most endangered democracies

Andres Oppenheimer President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of state, Cuban-American Sen. Marco Rubio, is expected to pay significant attention
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El Periodico USA Featured December 20, 2024

Trump should invite Venezuela’s Gonzalez Urrutia to his inauguration — today

Andres Oppenheimer President-elect Donald Trump’s Jan. 20 inauguration guest list includes several foreign dignitaries, but there is one political leader
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El Periodico USA Featured December 18, 2024

Trump won’t be able to deport 12 million immigrants — not even close

Andres Oppenheimer President-elect Donald said in his first post-election TV interview that he will deport everyone who is illegally in
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