#Venezuela’s President #Maduro’s ‘Go-To-Guy’ For All Shady Deals, Colombian dealmaker Alex Saab arrested in Cabo Verde

Alex Saab's arrest in Cape Verde © YouTube

Venezuela's opposition regards Mr Saab as the president's chief dealmaker and frontman — the man suspected of helping the regime import petrol from Iran in defiance of US sanctions, buying state-subsidised food in Mexico and exporting illegally-mined Venezuelan gold to Turkey and the United Arab Emirates, channelling money through a web of companies in Panama, Hong Kong and elsewhere."

"He's the go-to guy," said Vanessa Neumann, envoy to the UK of Venezuela's US-backed opposition leader Juan Guaidó. "He knows who to call in Iran, who to call in Turkey, how to set up a business in Panama. Not many people have that skillset, or that Rolodex, or that loyalty."

President Nicolás Maduro's fixer at centre of tug of war between Washington and Caracas

The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Uprooted Millions

It is estimated that close to 20 million people were forced to leave the African continent enslaved. 

By 1800, this had decimated the African population to half the size it would have been had slavery not occurred. 

Around 40 percent of Africans uprooted in slavery are believed to have come from Angola in Southern Africa, with another 30 percent who came from the Bay of Benin in West Africa.

The numbers taken from database project SlaveVoyages.org indicate the number of Africans disembarking. Many more died on the way because of lack of food and water and horrid conditions aboard the slave ships. Others were uprooted in the trans-Saharan, the red sea and the Indian slave trade, which partly predated the trans-Atlantic slave trade.

See the whole story on Statista here:

https://www.statista.com/chart/19068/trans-atlantic-slave-trade-by-country-region/ 

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Why Joe Biden Won’t Be President

Great piece on the reasons why Trump will probably win again in November. 

Why Joe Biden Won't Be President by Dr. Munr Kazmir

In #China, “#TrackAndTrace” means exactly that... China Collecting DNA From Tens of Millions of Men and Boys



The police say they need the database to catch criminals and that donors consent to handing over their DNA. Some officials within China, as well as human rights groups outside its borders, warn that a national DNA database could invade privacy and tempt officials to punish the relatives of dissidents and activists. Rights activists argue that the collection is being done without consent because citizens living in an authoritarian state have virtually no right to refuse.