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Keeping Up With the Korruption in Kazakhstan

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Venezuela's Earthquake Exposes the Hollow Trump 'Success Story'

Keeping Up With the Korruption in Kazakhstan · Jul 1, 2026 News

Venezuela's catastrophic earthquakes — 1,700+ dead, 50,000 missing — are testing Delcy Rodriguez's interim government in ways that expose how little changed when Maduro was ousted. The military sat by while citizens dug through rubble with their hands. Ben Rhodes argues the Trump administration's 'success' in Venezuela was always just tribute extraction, not real political change.

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