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AN UPCOMING INVESTIGATION
ONE BANKING GIANT
15+ MILLION DOCUMENTS
50+ MEDIA OUTLETS
230+ JOURNALISTS
50+ COUNTRIES
Out soon.
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This new Reuters report is stunning.
A week before the U.S. captured Venezuela's leader, JD Vance reportedly met at a private Montana ski club with John Addison, an oil trader who had given $300,000 to help elect Vance to the Senate in 2022. Vance allegedly asked how fast Venezuela's oil could be sold if America took control of it.
Both men deny the meeting.
Flight records show their planes parked together that day.
Two days after the Venezuela operation, Energy Secretary Chris Wright called Addison and offered his company, Vitol, the job of selling Venezuela's oil. There was no public bidding. Vitol and one rival have since made hundreds of millions of dollars.
Addison and his wife also gave $7 million to help elect Trump, and he now chairs a board advising Secretary Wright.
Congress has a duty to act.
We should bring Secretary Wright, Vitol, and Addison in to testify under oath. We should demand the phone records, emails, and flight logs. We should find out whether anyone got a heads-up about a military operation. And we should require open, competitive bidding before any company profits from our foreign policy.
If nothing was wrong, let’s see the records.
reuters.com/business/energy/…
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We're hiring an early-career journalist as a Fellow for the Visual Investigations team at the @nytimes. Come work with me!
You'll do OSINT reporting for a year with our team. Requires in-office work in NYC, authorization to work in the U.S. Pay is $82k.
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Strange how he has so much money
Le contrat signé pour Michel Martelly prévoit un dépôt initial de 125 000 dollars américains, auquel s’ajoutent des honoraires mensuels de 50 000 dollars, selon des documents consultés par AyiboPost⬇️
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Former Haitian president — and aspiring future president — Michel Martelly has hired a lobbyist, @Ayibopost reports. $125k deposit and $50k/month.
Though complicated by the fact that he's been sanctioned by the US for alleged drug trafficking, he was never added to the SDN list. Now he's hired a lobbyist to help remove them altogether.
Haiti's electoral rules were just rewritten to remove language that would have allowed banning candidates facing US or other bilateral sanctions.
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I was at the Novaya Gazeta yesterday as its reporters and editors packed up and held their final editorial meeting at Potapovsky Pereulok. The newspaper survived so much, but it could not survive Russia's war in Ukraine.
One reader I talked to described the disappearance of the Novaya as a "spiral of silence," saying:
“When voices like these disappear from public life, it starts to feel like there are fewer and fewer people who think differently, like you’re alone in what you believe,” said a 21-year-old reader, Danila, a recent university graduate with a degree in computer programming. He asked that his last name not be published, to avoid trouble with the authorities.
“The less you hear people expressing views different from the official narrative,” he said, “the harder it gets to speak up yourself.”
nytimes.com/2026/11/10/world…
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Rubio: "What you can’t have is gang suppression force running into Salvadorian soldiers and shooting at each other because they think the other side are gang members."
He's saying that because it's already happened.
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Bank says it has 60pc of Paraguay’s adult population as customers. Money goes pooof!, president runs away. Story makes barely a ripple.
Renunció a su empleo para emprender con sus ahorros y ahora teme perderlo todo por el caso de Ueno Bank
Un hombre acudió a la Fiscalía de Paraguay para pedir que se esclarezca qué pasó con el dinero que tenía depositado en Ueno Bank. Durante 16 años reunió sus ahorros y, junto a su esposa, decidió invertirlos en un emprendimiento. Este año dejó su trabajo para dedicarse al negocio y ahora teme perder el capital que reunió durante años.
Video: Cuenta de X de Raul Bogarin
#Paraguay #UenoBank #Ahorros #Emprendimiento
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La militarización de México
Este libro de la periodista de investigación @dawn_ se enfoca en los cambios en las relaciones civil-militares en México durante el gobierno de López Obrador. Lo ve como un problema sumamente importante.
Para una reseña: latamrob.substack.com/p/rot-…
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"I was an idiot" — Toronto airport gold heist planner already asked for parole. My exclusive from inside Arsalan Chaudhary's prison parole hearing
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It will be interesting to see what a Democrat controlled Congress will learn about this guy Mike Benz, who has Elon's ear and played a key role in pushing for the dismantling of USAID.
Genuinely one of the most fascinating figures of the last few years. Came from doing anonymous Hitler-praising videos to joining the State Department, getting paid close to a quarter of a million in 2023 by dark money orgs, and then leading the charge to dismantle online content moderation and foreign aid.
Also has pushed very niche narratives to US audiences about places of core America First interest like... Moldova and Bangladesh.
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We’ve seen a lot of videos about big news outlets preparing for tonight and while the NYT says it has more than 100 staffers on duty, we at the @MaineVillager are proud to announce we have MORE THAN 4 reporters on duty. instagram.com/reel/DfSc_J_JP…
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Come work for the best Middle East team in journalism. We have a new opening for a Farsi-speaking reporter in Dubai to join an Iran reporting team that breaks news about and explains the Islamic Republic to our millions of readers. Apply here. wsj.jobs/dubai-are/mideast-c…
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A venomous lie from a top US Defense Department official, before an audience of Latin American militaries last week.
This evidence-free claim of links between NGOs and vicious criminal groups endangers human rights defenders throughout the hemisphere.
youtube.com/watch?v=u5V1wVDo…
ALT Now the adversary is adapting. Make no mistake about the nature of our enemy. Transnational cartels are violent extremist organizations. They operate as the Al Qaeda and ISIS of the Western Hemisphere. Having lost parity on the physical battlefield, these cartels have opened an asymmetric line of effort. Lawfare. In military doctrine, lawfare is not a legitimate legal discourse. It is the calculated weaponization of legal systems to achieve kinetic and operational effects. The cartels understand they cannot outgun our combined surface action groups or outmaneuver our air interdiction assets. So instead, they attempt to paralyze our decision cycle. They finance, run, and control our NGOs. They file spurious human rights petitions. They coordinate with corrupt transnational legal networks to generate operational drag. Spoil our intelligence collection. And induce risk aversion in our tactical commanders. Their objective is simple. Introduce artificial legal friction in our find, fix, fin
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NEW: Powerful Haitian gang leader speaks with AP in his first interview with a major international news media company. This is what he had to say:
apnews.com/article/lanmo-san…
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Excellent comment on this FT article about the Binance hack
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Mekin Büyükdeniz was recovering from a recent assassination attempt when a hitman infiltrated his hospital ward in a highly coordinated early-morning attack and fatally shot him.
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Another cargo flight from El Salvador to Haiti today. Flights bringing personnel have been hidden on flight trackers. Meanwhile we now know the US and Colombian military have helped with logistics. Further, the Dominican Republic has offered its support and is serving as logistical hub for the delivery of helicopters and other equipment. Haiti, once again a laboratory for regional security policies.
Haiti deserves peace. What could an alternative approach look like?
cepr.net/publications/haiti-…
