The summits are not endpoints. They are the mechanism by which two countries, which can neither resolve their differences nor afford to rupture them, manage the interval between crises.
[O]il, CITGO and the control of gold remain the key pieces on a geopolitical chessboard, with the suffering of the Venezuelan people relegated to the background.
In accepting the 'big lie' theory, the Republicans risk losing their political soul by becoming nothing more than representatives of the biased totalitarian ideology of Trumpism.