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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 Opinion 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 Opinion 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 Opinion 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 Opinion 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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El Periodico USA Featured December 14, 2024

Cuba clamps down on much-promoted private sector plan amid crisis and exodus

Andres Oppenheimer Cuba’s decision to impose new restrictions on small and medium-sized private firms should not come as a surprise
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El Periodico USA Opinion December 11, 2024

Argentina’s leader Milei, Trump’s ‘favorite,’ marks first year on a high note

Andres Oppenheimer One year after taking office, Argentina’s eccentric President Javier Milei — the first foreign leader who met with
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