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Vera Bergengruen

@VeraMBergen
National security reporter @WSJ | Se habla español 🇺🇾 | Talk to me [email protected] / Signal: vmb.11
Washington, DC via 🇺🇾 🇨🇱 🇲🇽 🇩🇪 & Miami
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    Aug 29, 2024
    My TIME cover story from El Salvador, where I sat down with President Nayib Bukele and his top security officials, as well as salvadoreños who are living in a vastly safer country that has effectively become a one-party state, controlled by a single man. time.com/7015598/nayib-…
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    New via @CollinEatonHC: The Venezuelan oil company run by businessman Alejandro Betancourt (and now backed by Trump) plans to dispatch more than 50 drilling rigs over the next few years, a massive rollout meant to turbocharge VZ's anemic crude production.
    Trump’s Venezuelan Oil Company Plans Massive Drilling Push
    Exclusive | Trump’s Venezuelan Oil Company Plans Massive Drilling Push
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    Coming up with @PeterAlexander at 11:40 to discuss our reporting on how Trump’s plan to give the Pentagon a stake in Venezuela’s oil came together
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    Aug 31
    Here is an early look at the front page of today's Wall Street Journal on.wsj.com/4hXRa4y
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    Aug 31
    Critical detail buried lower in the story: The private company structure is deliberately intended to bind future Venezuelan governments to the agreement and make it difficult to unwind. Trump officials consider it unlikely that a new govt would expropriate a private company.
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    Aug 30
    NEW: Trump spent months declaring Maduro's ouster secured Venezuela's oil for America. When US oil companies resisted investing, his administration devised an extraordinary solution to turn his vision into reality: make the U.S. government itself an investor through the
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    Aug 30
    Nicolas Maduro’s social media account publish what appear to be the first photos of him since he was sent to a highly secure federal detention center in NY in January. In the post he calls it “small gift of love and hope” to his grandchildren and supporters. They are dated June
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