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Island nation in the Caribbean
Indentured servants typically worked fixed terms (commonly 4–7 years) and retained legal personhood with some contractual protections and a prospect of land or “freedom dues,” while enslaved people we...
The brand long known as Plantation Rum has officially been rebranded as Planteray Rum; the change was announced by Maison Ferrand and founder Alexandre Gabriel as an intentional renaming rather than t...
The official Venezuelan electoral authority declared Nicolás Maduro the winner of the 28 July 2024 presidential election, but large-scale opposition-collected precinct tallies and multiple independent...
A patchwork of arbitration wins against Venezuela and PDVSA has produced multibillion‑dollar awards and selective, jurisdiction‑by‑jurisdiction enforcement: ConocoPhillips and other investors have obt...
ExxonMobil and ConocoPhillips are the highest-profile foreign claimants that have pursued treaty-based ICSID or bilateral‑treaty claims against Venezuela, and more recent filings by companies such as ...
Taxpayer money has been used to buy and to renovate and maintain official residences in multiple documented cases, most clearly in the Canadian Global Affairs disclosures that list six-figure totals a...
Venezuela’s opposition since 2015 has cleaved into at least two enduring strategic camps: a confrontational bloc centered on maximal pressure—mass protest, international isolation of Maduro, and occas...
Contemporaneous claims that Smartmatic had operational and ownership ties to the Venezuelan government rested on a mix of corporate records, media reporting about early Venezuelan contracts, a 2006 U....
U.S. companies and related investors have won a string of multibillion‑ and multimillion‑dollar arbitration awards against Venezuela for the 2000s-era nationalizations and contractual breaches—most pr...
Public records and mainstream profiles describe Candace Owens as U.S.-born and raised, with her family background rooted in African American and Caribbean-American heritage — but the reporting consist...
Foreign creditors have repeatedly targeted Venezuela’s most valuable overseas holdings—principally shares and assets tied to state oil company PDVSA and its U.S. refining unit Citgo—as well as regiona...
The U.S. “No Kings” protests on October 18, 2025 were mass, largely peaceful demonstrations against President Trump framed as resistance to authoritarianism, with organizers claiming thousands of site...
The original statement asks which countries are modern republics and when they were established; the available analyses prudently summarize lists of republican transitions but mix definitions, dates, ...
Several countries have abolished their monarchies following popular uprisings or broad revolutionary movements; prominent historical examples include and , while many 20th-century transitions from mon...