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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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