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In Chocó, where people are still reckoning with the devastation caused by the August 10 earthquake, Colombian President Abelardo de la Espriella on Monday unveiled the most ambitious project ever proposed for the department in Colombia’s northwestern corner: a corridor finally linking the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.

President Trump has locked in a deal to develop Venezuela’s vast oil resources, an arrangement the White House says will bring a country battered by years of economic collapse to a “place where elections are possible.”

But the agreement — backed by acting President Delcy Rodríguez, a holdover from the Nicolás Maduro government that Washington deems “illegitimate” — is raising new uncertainty about how entrenched the unelected government may become.

Exactly one month before Brazil holds its presidential election, the country is drowning in a corruption scandal and institutional civil war, the gravity of which is impossible to overstate. At the center of it is Brazil’s authoritarian and increasingly unhinged Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes, who was sanctioned by the U.S.

The Department of Justice said two Mexican nationals pleaded guilty to charges that include providing material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization, the Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generación, and alien smuggling. Prosecutors tied the case to guns, drugs, and the illegal movement of people. These are not victimless crimes. Families pay the price in fentanyl deaths, border chaos, and rising violence. The pleas confirm the cartel’s U.S. footprint and show why terror tools now apply to cartel aid.

China has halted a 22-tonne Argentine beef shipment after tests detected banned chloramphenicol, highlighting the escalating trade hurdles amid China’s stringent import controls and recent suspension of Argentine meat exports.

Helena Glass, globalresearch.ca

Where’s the beef? 

Trump reluctantly agreed after much prodding to reveal the source of the beef import meant to lower the cost at the grocery stores by 35% – Argentina.

Problem: Argentina beef contains chloramphenicol – an antibiotic injected into the cows. It is banned for all food animals worldwide – obviously Melie chose to try and evade that ban. The side effects include: