Link to the article:https://latinamericanpost.com/americas/venezuela-ghost-tankers-outrun-trumps-sanctions-and-caracas-learns-again/ In 2019 President Trump put sanctions on Venezuela’s oil. In the past 6 years the Bpd has doubled to about a million a day. The work around for this is where the Ghost Tankers come in, they needed way to find a work around the blockade. S&P Global has estimated that one in five oil tankers… Read more »
The Reuters article reports that Brazil’s Senate has approved a bill that could significantly reduce the 27-year prison sentence of former President Jair Bolsonaro, who was convicted for plotting a coup after losing the 2022 election. Bolsonaro and several allies were found guilty of trying to undermine Brazil’s democratic system, including encouraging supporters who later stormed government buildings in Brasília… Read more »
Link to article: https://latinamericanpost.com/analysis-en/venezuela-tanker-blockade-turns-oil-into-a-high-seas-thriller/ This week President Trump has named the Venezuelan Government an FTO and has then ordered a total blockade of all sanctioned oil tankers. This is a continued act of aggression against the Venezuelans after the 90 people that have died from US strikes on suspected drug running vessels. In response to these actions Maduro has come… Read more »
Link to article: https://latinamericanpost.com/americas/colombia-gulf-clan-gets-terrorist-tag-as-fentanyl-fever-rises/ The Treasury Department has named the Gulf Clan of Colombia an FTO following an executive order from President trump making Fentanyl a WMD. This has reopened tensions and created a much more hostile environment in Colombia. This has also caused backlash seeing as just two weeks prior President Petro and the Gulf Clan were coming to… Read more »
Link: https://www.dw.com/en/argentina-scraps-plan-to-build-radio-telescope-with-china/video-75159033 The DW article explains Argentina’s decision to cancel a planned radio telescope project that was going to be built with China. The telescope was presented as a scientific project, but Argentine officials and some Western countries were worried that it could be used for military or intelligence purposes. Because China often combines civilian and government goals, the project… Read more »
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/16/pentagon-military-drug-boat-strike The article reports that on November 16, 2025, the U.S. military carried out yet another strike on an alleged drug-trafficking boat in the eastern Pacific, killing three people aboard. According to the announcement by U.S. Southern Command, intelligence had determined that the vessel was involved in smuggling narcotics along a known trafficking route. This strike is part of a… Read more »
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/cop/cop30-talks-grind-into-overtime-eu-objects-proposed-deal-2025-11-22 The article talks about the final hours of COP30 in Belém, Brazil, where climate negotiations went over their time limits because the European Union pushed back against a proposed deal. In the end, countries agreed to a compromise: wealthy nations would triple adaptation funding for developing countries by 2035, giving vulnerable regions more resources to deal with rising climate… Read more »
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/us-warns-airlines-potential-hazards-when-flying-over-venezuela-2025-11-21/ This article explains that the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration warned airlines about “potential hazards” when flying over Venezuela due to rising security risks and increased military activity in the country. The FAA said aircraft at any altitude could face danger, especially since there have been repeated disruptions to satellite-navigation signals in the region. The agency didn’t ban U.S. airlines… Read more »
