FOUR WEEKS BEFORE THE BEGINNING of his second term as President, Donald Trump abruptly floated the idea of taking back the Panama Canal. It had been a quarter-century since the U.S. formally ceded to

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About a quarter of the size it used to be. Venezuela has the world’s biggest proven reserves of oil, estimated at more than 300 billion barrels, or around 17% of the global total. The oil lies onshore

“Whatever Washington’s plans for the future of Venezuelan governance,” the “show of US force in Latin America” (see page 26) looks like “the first manifestation of a more assertive American foreign po

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I never thought I’d feel nostalgia for the ...