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Venezuela border conflict mixes drug trafficking and regime-change ambitions April 16, 2021 10:25 AM CDT By W. T. Whitney Jr.
Colombian navy soldiers watch as Venezuelan migrants cross near the Arauca River, the natural border with Venezuela, in Arauquita, Colombia, March 26, 2021. | Fernando Vergara / AP
Since mid-March, Venezuelan army units have been attacking and expelling Colombian operatives active in Apure state, in western Venezuela. Colombians have long used the border regions to prepare cocaine arriving from Colombia and ship it to the United States and Europe. Fighting has subsided; eight Venezuelan troops were killed. Seeking safety, 3,500 Venezuelans crossed the Meta River, an Orinoco tributary, to Arauca in Colombia.
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By Steve Keating
(Reuters) - After several doping scandals the Rodchenkov Anti-Doping Act will offer hope that broadcasters and sponsors will get a drug-free competition at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) chief Travis Tygart said on Friday.
Part of a Hudson Institute panel discussing how the Rodchenkov Act can help clean up doping fraud in international sports, Tygart praised the legislation signed into law on Dec. 4 by then U.S. President Donald Trump as a game-changer .
The Act was named after the whistleblower Grigory Rodchenkov, who helped expose Russiaâs state-sponsored doping programme. It extends U.S. law enforcement jurisdiction to international sporting competitions that involve American athletes or have financial connections to the United States.
Michael Allen
Managing Director of Beacon Global Strategies LLC; Former Majority Staff Director of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
Kari Bingen
Robert Cardillo
John P. Carlin
Marcel Lettre
Jason Matheny
Founding Director of Georgetown’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology; Former Assistant Director of National Intelligence and Director of the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity
John McLaughlin
Distinguished Practitioner in Residence, The Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies; Former Deputy Director and Acting Director of the Central Intelligence Agency
Jami Miscik
Stephen Slick
Director of The University of Texas at Austin’s Intelligence Studies Project; Former CIA Clandestine Service Officer and National Security Council Senior Director for Intelligence Programs and Reform