Luis Fajardo

On other occasions, when Mexican authorities managed to land big blows on the leadership of the cartels, they very often retaliated with this.

They called them narco-bloqueos, narco-roadblocks.

Cartel operatives move across the country, apparently in more than 10 states in Mexico,

different parts of the country, blocking key roads, setting vehicles on fire, creating a sensation of chaos to directly confront the authorities to say that they are also dealing with a very powerful organization in Mexico and that they are not going to simply disappear.

That's one of the things that has been said, that even though this is a very important achievement by the Mexican law enforcement authorities, nobody is expecting the cartels to disappear

anytime soon.

They remain extremely powerful.

Probably right now there's already movements within the crime world in Mexico to see who is going to replace El Mencho, and they are going to be continuously influential.

However, Mexican authorities will insist that this is a demonstration that they can also strike back at these cartels.

Thank you, sensei, thank you!

God damn it!

As you mentioned it is a first step and an important first step it would seem like towards meeting one of the main demands of the Venezuelan opposition. Of course they have been denouncing for many years that there are hundreds of political prisoners still being held in Venezuelan jails. And this certainly seems to be a first move in that direction. Of course there is a process that would still need to happen

for this bill to become a law. There's a period of public consultation and another reading by the national legislature. So there's still some steps that would need to occur before this actually becomes a law. But it's certainly a move that has been applauded, that has been welcomed by many people in Venezuela who have been demanding that the U.S. intervention should start to result in real political changes in Venezuela.

And it is a move that aligns with the US demands, I suppose. Certainly the US government has been saying that one of their big demands is precisely this, that prisoners are released. And it's also going to help the US government deflect criticism of those, of some commentators, who have said that the situation after the US military intervention had not changed that dramatically in many senses. The fact that the

Chavista apparatus, the Chavista government was still very much in charge and still continuing with practices that had been condemned, but of course internally and in the international community as well. So it is going to be an argument used by the US government as well to suggest that things are indeed changing, maybe slowly, but they seem to be changing to some degree in Venezuela. But isn't the judiciary in Venezuela still loyal to Nicolas Maduro?

Tämä on tärkeä kysymys, ei vain julkisuudessa, vaan kaikissa Venäjällä. Jotkut tapaukset näyttävät yksityiskohtaisuutta. Jotkut tapaukset näyttävät yksityiskohtaisuutta. Jotkut tapaukset näyttävät yksityiskohtaisuutta. Jotkut tapaukset näyttävät yksityiskohtaisuutta. Jotkut tapaukset näyttävät yksityiskohtaisuutta.

There's officials who have told US media that there's an ongoing operation against a third tanker in the Caribbean.

There's media reports saying that the tanker had been en route to Venezuela and that it was not carrying a recognised national flag.

Therefore, it would be, according to these reports, subject to boarding and inspection by US forces.

There's not much more known about it, the specific details.