CARACAS, VENEZUELA (By Energy Analytics Institute and Editores LatinPetroleum, 29.Sep.2026, Words: 225) — Company briefs spanning details on PEMEX, and Venezuela’s Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ), among others.
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LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN
VENEZUELA
— a New York Times investigation found US president Donald Trump has aligned the US w/ a once-blacklisted Venezuelan gold industry still plagued by the very criminality he said he was fighting by arresting the the country’s former leader, Nicolás Maduro. [NYT]
— Betancourt has become a key figure in the US oil strategy in Venezuela after rebuilding his business and taking control of projects that produce some 200,000 b/d. [Bloomberg]
— Venezuela’s pro-gov’t parliament appointed an 11-member commission to initiate the bureaucratic process for appointing 32 new justices to the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ), in accordance w/ the agreements reached in the dialogue with a sector of the opposition facilitated by the US. [Efe]
NORTH AMERICA
— former Microsoft CEO Bill Gates warned AI could be powerful enough to cause mass devastation for the human race reflecting the tech mogul’s recent shift to being worried about the technology’s potential impacts. [Washington Post]
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