Article 72M0B Trump renews push to acquire Greenland, says US will get millions of barrels of Venezuelan oil – as it happened

Trump renews push to acquire Greenland, says US will get millions of barrels of Venezuelan oil – as it happened

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Robert Mackey, Shrai Popat, George Chidi, Yohannes
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My colleague Sibylla Brodzinsky has reported on the relationship between the US and Colombia, home to significant oil reserves. Here is an extract from her story:

Colombia has long been a close partner of the US in the fight against drug trafficking and enjoyed bipartisan support in Washington but relations have soured dramatically since Trump came to office.

Colombia's narcotics trade is largely controlled by illegal armed groups such as the Gulf Clan, the National Liberation Army (ELN) and dissident factions of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc) guerrilla group, the majority of whose members demobilised after a 2016 peace deal ...

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