Maduro pledged to release full voting records from Venezuela’s election during a meeting with Celso Amorim at Miraflores on Monday, amid mounting pressure from Brazil, Colombia and other nations: bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via Simone Iglesias

A plane with 62 people aboard crashed in a fiery wreck in a residential area of a city in Brazil’s Sao Paulo state Friday, the airline said, but it was not immediately clear how many people were injured or killed. apnews.com/article/brazil…

NEWS — The Biden administration will not be extending the legal status of tens of thousands of Venezuelan migrants who were allowed to fly to the U.S. under a sponsorship program, according to officials and internal documents. cbsnews.com/news/venezuela…

For BBC World Service + BBC Trending, I contributed reporting from Colombia to this important doc from Elaine Chong 張永賢 about "blessing scams" targeting Chinese women in the UK. Could "Devil's Breath," which grows here in Colombia, be part of the crime? bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3c…

Let's not overlook the humor in the Trump vs. Colombia dustup. In a 700-word missive, Colombian President Petro begins like this: "Trump, I don’t really like traveling to the United States; it’s a bit boring." And boy, does it get better.

.Karoline Leavitt says Gustavo Petro reverses: "The Government of Colombia has agreed to all of President Trump’s terms, including the unrestricted acceptance of all illegal aliens from Colombia returned from the United States, including on U.S. military aircraft, without limitation or

WHCA STATEMENT ON WHITE HOUSE ANNOUNCEMENT

Eugene Daniels .Eugene Daniels on behalf of WHCA: "In a free country, leaders must not be able to choose their own press corps."

This move does not give the power back to the people - it gives power to the White House. The WHCA is democratically elected by the full-time White House press corps. WHCA has determined pools for decades because only representatives FROM our outlets can determine resources all

Moreover - in every administration, WHCA has advocated to expand access to news events, beyond just the pool. Making an event 'open press' or 'pool only' is up to the White House. Oftentimes, administrations limit access to 'pool only' because of security or space constraints.

NEW: Documented reports that one of the Venezuelans deported to El Salvador is a 19-year-old with with no criminal record and no tattoos who wasn't even the target of an ICE operation — but ended up sent there anyway. An ICE agent even said "He's not the one" when arrested!