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-=> Joseph Pereira wrote to All <=-


 JP> Trump states that Venezuela has agreed to a kind of buyout deal with
 JP> the US regarding the supply of $2 billion in oil. This apparently
 JP> allows Venezuela to prevent further US intervention?

 What court would uphold a "deal" made under such duress? We've
 kidnapped a sovereign head of state who, as such, has certain
 immunities - and our president has already made not-so-thinly veiled
 threats to Maduro's erstwhile successor?

 
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