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The Independent website published a report by journalist David Lindsay, which reveals that Maduro's stepsons helped launder USD $1.2 million of funds stolen from Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA between 2014 and 2015, laundering the funds in Malta, an island in the Central Mediterranean located between Sicily and the North African coast.

After decades of running an egregiously lucrative monopoly, padding the campaign accounts of the city's Democratic establishment in the process, and offering sub-par service at prices that only a millionaire could afford, New York City's longsuffering taxi drivers now have to deal with the dreaded C-word: Competition!

Just one day before leaving the Casa de Nariño, the ex-president authorized the creation of 218 new positions within the Attorney General's Office. The sweeping action was taken in order to bolster fulfillment of the provisions of the post-conflict framework, in accordance with the peace process agreed upon between the Colombian government, and the…

So far, the National Action Party (PAN) and the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) are the parties that have jockeyed to position themselves as the true opposition to the future government. However, in the wake of presidential and legislative elections, both have been strongly rebuked by the Mexican electorate, so it will be necessary for them…

The once mighty Venezuelan oil company now faces millions of dollars of embargoes, as a result of having lost numerous international court cases, resulting in significant judgments against it. Faced with this situation, the company has decided to flout the rulings, and to seek alternatives whereby it can sell its crude without the risk of…