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In this photo provided by El Salvador's presidential press office, airport workers unload a container of Chinese-made Sinovac COVID-19 vaccines from The New England Patriots team plane at the airport in San Salvador, El Salvador, late Tuesday, May 18, 2021. (El Salvador's presidential press office via AP)

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New England Patriots give flight to China’s vaccine diplomacy

by Joshua Goodman Associated Press WriterMay 22, 2021

MIAMI — The New England Patriots’ team plane has delivered 500,000 Chinese-made COVID vaccines to El Salvador — and in the process inadvertently inserted itself into a testy, geopolitical fight for influence in Latin America.The “Pats Plane” was…

FILE - In this April 13, 2019 file photo, Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro, speaks flanked by Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino Lopez, right, and Gen. Ivan Hernandez, second from right, head of both the presidential guard and military counterintelligence in Caracas, Venezuela. The Associated Press has learned that at least twice since 2016, the U.S. government missed chances to cultivate relations with regime insiders, including Padrino and Hernández, who National Security Adviser John Bolton said backed out of a plan to topple Maduro. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos, File)

by Joshua Goodman Associated PressMay 4, 2019

In this Feb. 1, 2019 photo, children walk past a mural that depicts the surrender of a U.S. soldier, in Caracas, Venezuela. Caritas, a charity run by the Roman Catholic church, estimates that child malnutrition more than doubled last year in Venezuela due to widespread food shortages and 7-digit hyperinflation, while 48 percent of pregnant women in low-income neighborhoods are also underfed. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

In Venezuela, politics prevail in rush for aid

by Joshua Goodman Associated Press, and Christine Armario Associated PressFebruary 6, 2019

A woman holding a Venezuelan national flag heckles Bolivarian National Guardsmen blocking the passage of opposition members during a protest march against President Nicolas Maduro in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2019. Venezuela's re-invigorated opposition faces a crucial test Wednesday as it seeks to fill streets nationwide with protesters in an appeal to the military and the poor to shift loyalties that until recently looked solidly behind Maduro's government. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

Opposition Seizes Presidency

by Joshua Goodman Associated PressJanuary 23, 2019

ADDS NAME OF DAUGHTER - In this image provided by the Holt family, Joshua Holt, his wife Thamara and her daughter Marian Leal, board a plane at the airport in Caracas, Venezuela, Saturday, May 26, 2018. Jailed in Venezuela on weapons charges nearly two years ago, Holt was released Saturday after a U.S. senator pressed for his freedom in a surprise meeting with President Nicolas Maduro. Holt and his wife, who also jailed, were reunited with her daughter from a previous relationship at Caracas’ airport where the three boarded a chartered flight to Washington. (Holt family photo via AP)

American Man Jailed in Venezuela for Two Years Arrives in U.S.

by Catherine Lucey The Associated Press, and Joshua Goodman The Associated PressMay 26, 2018

An anti-government protester aims a mortar containing a firework, in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, June 28, 2017. The last 24 hours in Venezuela have been volatile, beginning with widespread looting in the coastal city of Maracay on Monday night and continued Tuesday with a police helicopter firing on Venezuela's Supreme Court and Interior Ministry while opposition lawmakers scuffled with security forces assigned to protect the National Assembly. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

Venezuelan Protests Rise Up

by Joshua Goodman Associated PressJune 29, 2017

Opponents to the peace deal signed between the Colombian government and rebels of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, FARC, celebrate as they listen to the results of the referendum to decide whether or not to support a peace accord to in Bogota, Colombia, Sunday, Oct. 2, 2016. Colombia’s peace deal with leftist rebels was on the verge of collapsing in a national referendum Sunday, with those opposing the deal leading by a razor-thin margin with almost all votes counted. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

Colombians Reject Deal With Rebels

by Joshua Goodman Associated Press, and Andrea Rodriguez Associated PressOctober 2, 2016