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Received — 9 October 2026 ⏭

The story of a divided Brazil, as told from a Copacabana apartment building

✇El País - English
By: María Martín
9 October 2026 at 17:46
Portrait of Ângela Valério on the rooftop terrace of her building in Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Ten years ago, a 92-foot banner hung from the rooftop of an Art Deco building in Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro’s iconic beachfront neighborhood. “Fora Cunha” (“Cunha Out”), it read in white letters against a black background.

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Ângela Valério walks alone down the hallway of the building where she lives, in Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.At the center, the façade of the building where Ângela Valério lives, in Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Received — 9 September 2026 ⏭

How Venezuela pushed aside a local oil company to make way for new US partners: ‘They simply took the assets and disappeared’

✇El País - English
By: María Martín · Florantonia Singer
9 September 2026 at 17:31

The heirs of Oswaldo Cisneros, once one of Venezuela’s richest men, received unusual news last April: strangers were touring their oil fields in the Orinoco Belt. On paper, they remained the legitimate operators of the assets, but it soon became clear that, even as those visits took place in plain sight, a plan was being put in motion to take the fields away from them.

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The LPG tanker Chrysopigi Lady carries a cargo of Venezuelan liquefied petroleum gas to the United States.
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