My brother, an Iowa farmer WHO VOTED FOR BIDEN,

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80. Venezuela's oil exports bounce to over 700,000 bpd in Oct -data

Nov 2 (Reuters) - Venezuela's oil exports last month surpassed 700,000 barrels per day (bpd) as supplies of imported diluents boosted production and shipments, according to documents from state-run firm PDVSA and Refinitiv Eikon tracking data.

The OPEC-member country's largest oil producing region has regained its output and blending capacity in recent weeks after Iran, one of the nation's most important allies, began regularly supplying condensate for diluting the Orinoco Belt's extra heavy oil. Iranian supplies are lessening the impact of U.S. sanctions on the nation's output.

In October, PDVSA and its joint ventures shipped 30 cargos of crude and refined products, mostly to Asia, including a 2-million-barrel cargo of Merey heavy crude to pay back Iran for the condensate received.
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Venezuela's oil exports, which along with Iran's are under U.S. sanctions designed to limit sales, have stabilized this year at around 633,000 bpd, a slight increase from the 626,000 bpd of 2020 but still a large decline from previous years when PDVSA had not been blacklisted by the U.S. Treasury Department.

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/venezuelas-oil-exports-bounce-over-700000-bpd-oct-data-2021-11-02/

Our neighbors down in the "lower forty" have plenty of oil. Our government needs to stop its bullshit oppression of the Venezuelan people and trade with our close neighbors. Saudi Arabia doesn't even elections, for dawgsake, and we kiss their royal asses like we are their vassals, despite the fact that the Saudis treat women and LGBT just like mean people treat their dogs, and it's legal to do so. Women have equal rights in Venezuela, and being LGBT is legal there.

The economic oppression of Venezuela is pure bullshit, based in the fact that their oil is nationalized, and they won't let multi-national
petroleum companies own and control their oil supplies.

And oh, the hypocrisy, to condemn Venezuela's electoral processes, given the fact that 19 US States have brought back Jim Crow Laws, in the name of Trumpian white supremacy.

Voting Laws Roundup: October 2021

In a backlash to this historic voter participation, many state lawmakers have proposed and enacted legislation to make it harder for Americans to vote, justifying these measures with falsehoods steeped in racism about election irregularities and breaches of election security.
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Between January 1 and September 27, at least 19 states enacted 33 laws that make it harder for Americans to vote.

At the same time, lawmakers in many states responded to Americans’ eagerness to vote by making it easier for eligible voters to cast their ballots. Between January 1 and September 27, at least 25 states enacted 62 laws with provisions that expand voting access.

But this expansive legislation does not balance the scales. The states that have enacted restrictive laws tend to be ones in which voting is already relatively difficult, while the states that have enacted expansive laws tend to have relatively more accessible voting processes. In other words, access to the right to vote increasingly depends on the state in which a voter happens to reside.

https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/voting-laws-roundup-october-2021