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Geological surveys and recent reporting locate most confirmed and reported coltan and rare earth occurrences in Venezuela’s southern Guayana/Orinoco region—especially Bolívar and adjoining Amazonas—la...
Available public sources do not give a single, authoritative tonnage for Venezuela’s lithium reserves; mainstream datasets list the largest South American lithium resources concentrated in the “Lithiu...
A clear protection strategy against tear gas and flash bangs pairs respiratory filtration with sealed eye protection and hearing/blast mitigation: full‑face gas masks or half‑face respirators plus gog...
Recent reporting finds that a notable share of prominent MAGA-aligned accounts on X/Twitter are operated from outside the United States, and researchers and platform actors have long estimated nontriv...
Claims that Adolf Hitler escaped to South America rest mainly on mid‑20th century rumours, third‑hand intelligence reports and the well‑documented fact that many Nazis fled to South America — but main...
The Andinia Plan is a long-standing antisemitic conspiracy alleging a Zionist plot to carve a Jewish state out of Patagonia in southern Argentina and Chile; it originated in Argentine far‑right circle...
No definitive, publicly released evidence identifies who started the January 2026 wildfires in Argentine Patagonia; some national officials pointed at Mapuche groups but local judicial authorities in ...
Multiple official and quasi-official actors—including at least a handful of national governments, groups of states intervening in litigation, and United Nations fact-finding bodies—have described or l...
After World War II, multiple South American countries became destinations for Nazi officials fleeing prosecution; , with additional evidence that hosted fugitives through ratlines and supportive netwo...
Estimates of how many Nazis fled to South America after World War II vary widely; several sources cite figures up to about 9,000 people spirited out of Europe, with specific allocations such as “as ma...
Several world leaders publicly condemned comments and policies by President Donald Trump across different moments in 2025, notably at the COP30 climate summit where Brazil’s Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva,...
Contemporary reporting and archival summaries disagree on a precise tally, but multiple recent accounts and declassification efforts converge on a range: . Argentina’s 2025 release of files and ongoin...
The Torres del Paine wildfire that began in late December 2011 burned tens of thousands of hectares and led Chilean authorities to detain a 23‑year‑old Israeli tourist on suspicion of negligently star...
Available reporting and datasets do not show Venezuela as a major controller of the global lithium, cobalt or nickel supply chains; the largest lithium reserves are in the “Lithium Triangle” (Bolivia,...
Democratic socialist policies have been implemented in many countries at different times and with varying aims, most commonly as and as episodic leftist governments or movements elsewhere; lists of co...
Available reporting and datasets do not provide a single, recent, authoritative estimate of lithium reserves or average grades specifically for Venezuela’s pegmatite fields; major public compilations ...
Recent reporting highlights three distinct types of discoveries tied to Antarctica: , the , and high-profile scientific finds such as the that illuminate human and climatic histories. These claims com...
Cuba entered the 20th century as one of Latin America’s relatively prosperous economies and by 1958 had a reported per‑capita GDP of $2,363, “in the middle of Latin American countries” . Scholarly rec...
Canada has 15 free trade agreements covering 51 countries and blocs, giving preferential access to about 1.5 billion consumers and roughly 61% of world GDP . Key multilateral FTAs include CUSMA (with ...
Documented post‑1945 “sightings” of Adolf Hitler appear repeatedly in declassified agency files and in popular books and TV shows, but mainstream historians and forensic evidence uphold that Hitler di...