The recent advance has been buoyed by speculative inflows and lingering supply dislocations across major trading hubs after a short squeeze in October.
One of Maduro’s darkest legacies was the exodus of 8 million Venezuelans during his 13-year rule, one of the largest mass migrations in modern history.
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Kate Linthicum,
Los Angeles Times,
12 Jan. 2026
Largely invisible at the time, especially compared with the vast Italian and Jewish migrations a century earlier, these influxes were ultimately just as transformative.
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