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El Periodico USA Staff Featured February 7, 2025

Resistance to Trump is more urgent now than in his first term

Washington, DC – Below is a column by Maribel Hastings from America’s Voice en Español translated to English from Spanish.
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El Periodico USA Staff Featured February 4, 2025

Trump betrayed Venezuelan exiles by revoking TPS and engaging Maduro

Andres Oppenheimer There’s no way to hide it: President Trump has stabbed Venezuelan exiles in the back by revoking deportation
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El Periodico USA Staff 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 Staff Opinion 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 Staff 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 Staff 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 Staff Opinion 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 Staff 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 Staff Opinion 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 Staff 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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