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We have the major oil companies going to Venezuela now scouting it out and picking their locations.

Under pressure from the United States, Venezuela's interim president, Delci Rodriguez, assigned a law allowing for the country's oil industry to be privatized.

This comes less than a month after the U.S. abducted former President Maduro from power.

We'll speak to Pulitzer Prize-winning Latin America historian Greg Grandin.

Then families of two Trinidadian men killed on October 14th in a U.S. missile strike in the Caribbean

are suing the Trump administration for wrongful death.

It's a criminal offense. You cannot be bumming people both, you know, like that, you know,

and saying international water and saying narco trafficking and raise your proof.

We'll speak with their attorney and hundreds of thousands of Haitians are on the verge of losing

their status to live and work in the United States legally.

President Trump signed an executive order revoking that status early in his second term,

despite the well-known conditions of instability and danger in Haiti.

We'll hear directly from a health care worker in Florida.

And finally, to Iran, where the estimated count of the dead from the brutal government

crackdown on protests continues to rise possibly into the tens of thousands.

This comes as threats of possible U.S. military action rise.

We'll speak with the acclaimed Iranian filmmaker Sepi da Farsi.

All that and more coming up.

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I'm Amy Goodman. Senate Democrats and President Trump have struck a deal that could avert a government shutdown, but the needed votes have not yet been taken. Under the deal, the Senate would approve funding for most government agencies through September

30th, but Department of Homeland Security funding would only continue for two more weeks.

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