The Southern District has a noted history in prosecuting foreign leaders such as Juan Orlando Hernández, the former President of Honduras, a drug lord later pardoned by President Trump despite being convicted and sentenced to 45 years in prison, and General Hugo Armando Carvajal Barrios, the former intelligence head of Venezuela and also a drug trafficker, as well as Taliban and Iranian leaders Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro, a left-leaning leader who has who has often clashed with Trump and has also been threatened by the U.S. president, said “The Colombian government rejects the aggression against the sovereignty of Venezuela and Latin America,” while calling for an immediate meeting of the United Nations Security Council, of which Colombia is a member With WTI oil prices at $57 per barrel, that’s almost half of what it was last year and a just a fraction of the $380 per barrel worst-case forecast by JP Morgan after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, so there is little incentive for this invasion to be linked to oil supply needs; in fact, with the Saudis having increased their production again by a third, there’s an oil glut on the market
Author: Jeffrey Sonnenfeld
Published at: 2026-01-03 21:29:50
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