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What Maduro can offer Trump

Dear readers,

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One question is currently hanging over Washington — on pause for the Thanksgiving holiday — and Caracas, tense with the prospect of the United States carrying out its threat of military intervention in Venezuela: will Presidents Donald Trump and Nicolás Maduro talk, as the former hinted at in statements to the press on Tuesday? And what could Maduro offer the Republican leader in order to appease him?

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At a key moment in peace negotiations for Ukraine, we interviewed NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, who warns that even if an agreement is reached to end the war launched by Vladimir Putin nearly four years ago, “Russia will remain a long-term threat.”

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This week we also look at the story behind a famous David Hockney painting that sold at auction for $44 million, and why the rich almost always marry the rich.

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We hope you enjoy this selection of stories by EL PAÍS USA Edition.

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From oil and cooperation on drug trafficking to his own head: What could Maduro offer to appease Trump?‌

The announcement that the US president is willing to talk with the Venezuelan leader offers an uncertain window of opportunity for a negotiated solution to the crisis between the two countries

Mark Rutte: ‘Russia will remain a threat to Europe even if there is a peace agreement in Ukraine’‌

The NATO secretary general warns that Spain will soon find it needs to spend around 3.5% of its GDP on defense and praises Trump: ‘I like the guy’

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USSR 2.0, Trump’s deals, and other power struggles in the Caucasus‌

Armenia seeks to distance itself from Russian dominance in a regional context where multiple actors are vying to assert their influence

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US militarization of Puerto Rico amid Venezuela tensions reopens historical wounds‌

The deployment of 5,000 soldiers and the reopening of a base revive fears tied to the 60 years Vieques served as a training camp and artillery range

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The lives that Hurricane Melissa upturned in Cuba‌

The natural disaster has deepened the precarious situation in the eastern part of the island. Those who lost everything are unsure how to rebuild their lives amid the various crises affecting them

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Latin America’s far-right networks: Digital newspapers, bots and fake news‌

A conservative network that originated in Brazil and spread through Argentina has reached Mexico, acting as a political weapon

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Warren Ellis: ‘Nick Cave told me he got me in the band because I was fun to take drugs with’‌

After a stellar career with his group Dirty Three and Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, the Australian musician is presenting ‘Ellis Park,’ a documentary about an animal sanctuary in Sumatra

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‘Wicked,’ the phenomenon that even its stars didn’t expect: ‘We all feel at some point in our lives like we don’t belong’‌

EL PAÍS speaks with Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande about the second part of a project that achieved overwhelming success in the US but was not replicated abroad

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‘One of the greatest achievements of modern art’: The story behind David Hockney’s $44 million painting‌

Christie’s has just auctioned the first of the double portraits the British artist created in the mid-1960s. It is the last in a series that changed the course of his painting, as well as a landmark of pop art and of gay visibility

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