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CARACAS — Six Venezuelan government opponents who have sheltered for months at the Argentine embassy in Caracas decried Sunday that local police and intelligence agents were stationed outside of it for hours. The move prompted the U.S. government to call it a serious violation of international law and Argentina’s Foreign Ministry to describe it as an act of harassment. Most of the opponents belong to the Vente Venezuela party led by former legislator María Corina Machado. It denounced what it called “a new siege by hooded officials” that began Saturday night and extended into Sunday. The incident occurred hours after Machado called for a massive mobilization on Dec. 1, prompting Venezuela’s minister of the interior to accuse the political leader of being part of a new conspiracy attempt against the government of President Nicolás Maduro. Vente Venezuela said in a statement that the diplomatic headquarters remains without electricity and is surrounded by “regime vehicles” that are preventing traffic from circulating in the area. It said communication signals also were scrambled. Get the latest breaking news as it happens. By clicking Sign up, you agree to our privacy policy . Argentina’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement late Saturday that the deployment of armed troops and the closing of streets in the vicinity “constitute a disturbance of security.”. It also called on the international community to condemn the incident, which the U.S. did. On Sunday, the U.S. Embassy in Venezuela posted on X that the U.S. “strongly condemns the acts of harassment against asylum seekers.” “The deployment of armed forces and blockades seriously violate international law,” it said. “We demand that the Venezuelan regime respect its international obligations, cease these intimidating actions and guarantee safe passage for asylum seekers.” Diplomatic relations between the two countries have been broken since 2019. The opposition members entered the embassy in March after the Venezuelan Attorney General’s Office issued arrest warrants and accused them of promoting alleged acts of violence to destabilize the government. In August, Brazil accepted Argentina’s request to guard its embassy after the Venezuelan government ordered the expulsion of Argentine diplomatic personnel following statements by its president, Javier Milei, that he would not recognize “another fraud” in Venezuela after the controversial elections in Jul y. A month later, Venezuela revoked Brazil’s authorization to guard the embassy, alleging it had evidence of the use of the facilities “for the planning of terrorist activities and assassination attempts.” Brazil and Argentina have rejected those accusations.
Ottawa police arrest 3 during pro-Palestinian demonstrations this weekendMatt Gaetz says he won't return to Congress next year after withdrawing name for attorney generalTrump adviser hounded by angry neighbors after he bought home on liberal island off Maine coast Leonard Leo credits with reshaping the conservative U.S. Supreme Court Leo moved to island off Maine where 70 percent voted against Trump By ASSOCIATED PRESS Published: 19:21 GMT, 27 November 2024 | Updated: 19:25 GMT, 27 November 2024 e-mail 4 View comments A former Trump adviser has been hounded by neighbors after moving to a liberal island off Maine . Leonard Leo, a conservative lawyer, has been credited with helping to reshape the U.S. courts and Republican politics. His efforts culminated in Trump's first term with the appointment of three conservative Supreme Court justices, and the overturning of the landmark Roe v. Wade abortion ruling. It turned him into a hero to conservatives and a villain to liberals. In 2020 Leo and his family moved to Mount Desert Island, a tranquil and sparsely populated island off the coast of Maine. It should have led to relatively anonymous life, but a refuge it has not turned out to be. The conservative's presence - despite significant charitable giving to local nonprofits and big spending locally - has generated fissures in a place where over 70 percent of residents voted against Trump in 2024. 'It feels very personal,' Caroline Pryor, 65, who has lived on the island for four decades, told the Associated Press. 'He comes to a small quiet community in the very northeast corner of the country and does this evil, far-reaching work that is going to affect so many millions of people, but he wants to just live this anonymous, quiet life.' The waterfront home of Leonard Leo on a quiet island in Maine. A liberal protester outside Leo's home Local resident's on the island have staged protests outside the conservative lawyer's home In October, just two weeks before November's election, Pryor and a dozen other people, mostly women, gathered outside Leo's estate to protest during the island's annual marathon. They came armed with a cartoonish life-sized puppet of Leo, a rainbow arch for runners to pass through, and blue and pink chalk with which they scribbled slogans including 'You Are Amazing, Leonard Leo Is Not' on the road. The protesters also rang cowbells as a boombox blasted Dolly Parton, Taylor Swift and Queen songs. 'We are making people on the island aware of who he is, and they might question taking his money,' Mary Jane Schepers, one of the protesters, said as she urged runners to flip off Leo's home. 'They are taking dirty money.' Leo, in response to a series of written questions from AP, said he 'had never really thought about' whether his move to the island would spur opposition. He said: 'While I disagree with them and with what some of them do and say, they are people created by God with dignity and worth and their presence has been an invitation to pray for them.' Leo, 59, and his family for decades had vacationed on Mount Desert Island, an idyllic isle known for its rocky beauty, windswept beaches and the famed Acadia National Park. It has a population of 10,000, In 2018, he purchased a $3.3 million, 8,000-square-foot Tudor-style estate in Northeast Harbor, one of Mount Desert Island's wealthiest towns. ederalist Society Executive Vice President Leonard Leo speaks to media at Trump Tower in New York, Nov. 16, 2016 Aerial view of Bar Harbor, Maine. Bar Harbor is a town on Mount Desert Island in Hancock County, Maine and a popular tourist destination A protester holds water for runners during a protest in front of the home of Leonard Leo during the Mount Desert Island Marathon Some of the country's most influential and wealthy people - scions like John D. Rockefeller Jr., billionaires like Mitchell Rales and celebrities such as Martha Stewart - have sought privacy and anonymity on the island. Backlash swiftly followed Leo's arrival. The next year, protesters descended on his home as he hosted a fundraiser for Republican Sen. Susan Collins. He soon drew more protests when he was invited to introduce the then-president of The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, at a nearby college, leading the institution to rescind the invitation. The protests grew near the end of Trump's first term and spiked after the conservative-dominated Supreme Court in 2022 overturned the constitutional right to abortion. Activists' initial goal was to convince Leo to leave but when that failed, they turned their focus to informing residents about the man in the Tudor-style mansion. 'He felt he could come here, and it would be a place to get away' from the negative attention he gets for his politics, said Murray Ngoima, a regular protester. 'We have managed to draw attention to what he is doing. And that is a problem for him.' A sunset on Mount Desert Island in Maine Martha Stewart is one of the most famous people with a home on the island Bar Harbor, a town on Mount Desert Island, Maine The protests have compelled Leo to step up security at his estate. A protester was arrested in 2022, a confrontation with police that led to a lawsuit and $62,500 settlement over First Amendment violations. Amid the protests, Leo has stepped up his charitable giving, telling AP that the activists have 'strengthened our conviction to be as active as possible in helping various institutions on the island.' That has meant tens of thousands of dollars going to local nonprofits. He and his wife, Sally, gave over $50,000 in 2020 to the Island Housing Trust, an organization seeking to boost the amount of affordable housing on the island. The trust's annual giving report also listed Leo as a member of the group's leadership committee. Similar donations were made over the next three years. Messages are written in chalk during a protest in front of the home of Leonard Leo during the Mount Desert Island Marathon Caroline Pryor adjusts the head of a mannequin bearing an image of Leonard Leo during a protest A woman protests in front of the home of Leonard Leo Leo and his wife were also listed as donors to the Mount Desert Island Hospital and the Northeast Harbor Library. But some residents expressed suspicions about Leo's donations. Protesters urged the groups to return the money and compared the donations to the way Leo has influenced Republican politics. 'He is a wolf in sheep's clothing,' said Susan Covino Buell, an island resident. 'We can't just act like he is a regular person in our community.' Buell, 75, resigned her position on the housing nonprofit's campaign committee when Leo got involved with the charity. She had tried to convince the nonprofit to reject the money 'because I just felt it was so tainted,' Buell said. A group of anti-Leo activists also penned an open letter urging the hospital to return its donation because of Leo's role in ending federal abortion protections. Mariah Cormier, a hospital spokeswoman, said the institution accepts 'charitable donations that aid in strengthening the health and vibrancy of our community.' The Mount Desert Island Hospital, a beneficiary of Leonard Leo Leo dismissed the idea his donations were aimed at buying acceptance from a skeptical community, saying people 'can judge for themselves why I do what I do.' It isn't just Leo's philanthropy that is controversial on the island. His business at local establishments presents a quandary for shop owners and service workers. Many said they oppose Leo's political positions, but they need his money to sustain their enterprises, allowing shops and restaurants that once closed during frigid winters to stay open longer. Leo is such a sensitive topic that multiple shop owners declined to be interviewed by the Associated Press. Sheila Eddison protests in front of the home of Leonard Leo A boathouse under renovation on Mount Desert Island The devout Roman Catholic has also donated to the island's Catholic churches. Sacred Spaces Foundation, a nonprofit that counts Leo as its president and sole member, purchased St. Ignatius of Loyola Catholic Church in Northeast Harbor for $2.65 million in 2023 from the Roman Catholic Bishop of Portland. The church now holds one service a week during the summer, when Northeast Harbor is busiest. Leo is a also a regular at another parish, Holy Redeemer, a large stone sanctuary in Bar Harbor where his wife is the head of the music ministry. His presence has driven off some longtime congregants, residents said. Lindy Stretch, an 80-year-old who converted to Catholicism at Holy Redeemer over a decade ago, left the congregation because of what she said was Leo's growing influence in the church. ;I just couldn't stand to watch that,' Stretch said. Asked about people leaving the island church, Leo said he was 'thankful for every person who takes the time to come to Holy Redeemer and is striving to be in union with the church and Christ, regardless of what they do or believe in their private lives.' The Northeast Harbor Library, a beneficiary of Leonard Leo Not everyone is upset about Leo's move to Maine, with Republicans in the state coming to his defense. House Republican Leader Billy Bob Faulkingham, who represents a district just off the island, excoriated the protesters and hailed Leo for 'sticking to his beliefs and donating to the causes he believes in.' Since 2020, Leo's network has funneled over $1 million to conservative causes in the state. But those donations have only deepened the opposition to Leo among his most frequent protesters. 'He is succeeding,' admitted Bo Greene, a 63-year-old protester. 'We are making him uncomfortable. But he is still here.' Politics Maine US Supreme Court Share or comment on this article: Trump adviser hounded by angry neighbors after he bought home on liberal island off Maine coast e-mail Add comment
There’s only one more episode of as we know it remaining. The currently airing season 5B was announced to be the final season in the Paramount Network flagship series. But since then, with fan-favorite stars and has been in talks, leaving the state of TV’s No. 1 series up in the air. But if one thing is for certain, next week is sure to define the legacy of the Yellowstone ranch at the heart of the show. Related Stories The penultimate episode that aired on Sunday, “Give the World Away,” was written by co-creator and directed by executive producer Michael Friedman. The , who recurs on the series as Texas horse trainer Travis. This week, Sheridan returned as Travis when he received a visit from Beth Dutton (Reilly) at his Texas ranch (which was filmed at Sheridan’s real-life Bosque Ranch). Beth wants to ensure that Travis is doing right by the Yellowstone, and the visit from the daughter of (departed star ) brings viewers into Travis’ world where he hosts strip poker games that include his girlfriend, played by guest star , shows off his horse-riding prowess and, in the end, delivers Beth and the Yellowstone the big, fat check the struggling ranch needed. “It was wonderful to see Taylor have fun in a way that is such an incorporation of life imitating, art imitating life in terms of it being shot in a place that he has built,” executive producer Christina Voros, who directed the four earlier episodes of season 5B, tells of the visit to Bosque Ranch. Voros also adds that Hadid, who now lives in Texas, was the only person eyed for the role to play his onscreen girlfriend. “[Taylor is] known as this writer of these great American Western TV sagas, but he’s also a cowboy and a tremendous horseman, and spends as much time doing that part of his personality and his life as he does writing the stories about that.” Below in a chat with , Voros talks more about Sheridan’s onscreen cowboy sendoff, reveals how they filmed those huge Yellowstone ranch scenes while avoiding any big spoilers leaking, and unpacks the Dutton family chess moves made this episode to tease how they will come together in the end: “It all makes sense looking backwards. But looking forward, you never would have seen it coming.” *** I was there a lot, mostly because we were getting so close to the end and everyone wanted to be there as much as possible. Michael Friedman is a dear friend and a tremendous director; he’s been part of Taylor [Sheridan]’s close, creative family from the very beginning. He’s been involved in the show since the first season and has been a producer and post-production guru/storyteller through all of Taylor’s shows. He started producing this past year on [Sheridan shows] and , and then did this episode of . It was such a wonderful homecoming to have him directing since he’s been part of the show’s DNA from the very beginning. It was a little hectic [for me when filming], because we were cross-boarding. Because I had directed the first four episodes, I hadn’t had any time to get ahead of stuff that was coming because we didn’t really shoot things in order; Michael did this episode, and then we still had parts of episodes 509, 510 and 511 that we still had to shoot. So I was able to use this as a little bit of prep time but I wanted to be on set as much as possible, partially because it was such a wonderful, full-circle moment with Michael and also because it’s such a magnificent centerpiece of the season. The elements of [this episode] 513 are everything that draws people to . It’s big, it’s cinematic. It’s horses. It’s emotion. It’s all of the poetry that the show has become known for really beautifully showcased. This was one of the big examples. There are elements throughout the season, like in Jamie’s [ ] world where there are press conferences where that also came into play. But yes, this was the biggest swing we took at asking: How do we bring in all the wonderful background performers that we really need to be able to tell these stories, and how do we do it in a way where no one is going home at night and accidentally let it slip about something they saw on set? So Michael and his first AD on the episode, Kristina Massie, did a really remarkable job in terms of finding the ways to divert the attention of folks who were coming in for background, and it had more to do with strategy in how it was shot. They were very smart about what absolutely had to be done in front of hundreds of extras and what could be shot in such a way where, when it’s cut together, it would feel like all of those people were there, but in fact, at that moment, they were not. This is probably the shining example of the lengths that everyone went through, and Michael and Kristina making sure that the secrets to the story stayed locked. That had to do with what the production sound sounds like in the show versus what it sounded like when it was being recorded, and not allowing the extras to hear everything that was being said. I believe there was also an alternate script that was used in some of the wider shots that was absent of information. Then in the closer coverage, they recorded the real track. For Colby’s, we called it “Colby’s arrival.” And for Sarah’s, it was “Sarah arrives.” We continued working with the term “arrival,” because it’s so innocuous that you could read it on a call sheet and no one would ever think that there was anything wrong. In the show, Travis runs Bosque Ranch, which is Taylor’s ranch in Weatherford, Texas. I actually wasn’t there when they filmed those scenes. A couple of those scenes were the very last scenes [filmed] of the show. They were shot in August and I was already prepping on [the ]. But as far as the role of Travis, it was wonderful to see Taylor — again, in a full-circle moment — have fun in a way that is such an incorporation of life imitating, art imitating life in terms of it being shot in a place that he has built. He’s known as this writer of these great American Western TV sagas, but he’s also a cowboy and a tremendous horseman, and spends as much time doing that part of his personality and his life as he does writing the stories about that. So it was kind of wonderful to see the collision of the fictional world he’s created with the actual world he’s created as himself and as a man and as a horseman. To see those two things braided together was really fun. It all comes back to his sort of obsessions with authenticity. You can’t teach an actor to get on a horse and do magnificent things on horseback. He’s a firm believer that there are more cowboys who can act than there are actors who can cowboy. So he’s given roles to so many people. You see it in the Four Sixes work [on ]: Dusty Burson is a tremendous cowboy and a pretty decent actor; Kory Pounds is an incredible cowboy, and a pretty decent actor! He’s done this with my husband [Jason Owen], who has been a wrangler on the show for many years. Taylor gave him a part as a detective — he’s the sidekick to the main detective. So he is the detective in the opening of the who shows Kayce (Luke Grimes) where John Dutton (Kevin Costner) has been shot. One of the consistent things about Taylor is that he understands how fun it is to be a part of something like this. I think he’s looking for opportunities to bring on some of these cowboys because they are who they are, and you can’t get more authentic than that. But it’s also really fun to say, “Let’s give [ actor] Cole Palfreyman, another one of the wranglers and horseman that Taylor has worked with for years, a part on [Sheridan’s Paramount+ series] .” He does that a lot. I remember back in season four during COVID, there were a lot of crew members he gave parts to. My key grip for years, Craig Sullivan, was cast as a glass repair guy. He’s done it from the very beginning and I think in an episode like this, there’s even more reason to cast the people you know as horsemen as horsemen. All I know is that when that part was cast it wasn’t like there were casting teams. By the time I knew it was cast, we knew it was her. So I don’t know when that decision was made, but again, it goes back to sort of keeping it in this family. She was great, and also could not be a lovelier human being. You bring in someone who is a celebrity in their own right and sometimes you are just floored with how marvelously kind and down to earth they really are, and she was really that. That’s a hard question, because the story is the story and the scripts are the scripts. I think one of the things Taylor does, and has done from the beginning of the show, is that there are issues with characters and thoughts that come up and whether they are red herrings or whether they are part of a shorter storytelling element versus a longer one, it happens organically. Going from season to season, the writing comes through him and out onto the page. It’s not something that has been strategically plotted out on Excel spreadsheets from the beginning. So I think every season what the story is and what the threat is and what the drama is, is coming out of the characters themselves as he writes him. This season is not about Jamie as a father; this season is about Jamie as a son. Jamie is usually the smartest guy in the room, and I think he has succeeded in staying afloat through all of these ups and downs, and potential near-finalities of his life as a politician, by the insight of, in many cases, the women around him. The people who have believed in him at times when he hasn’t believed in himself. But ultimately, he is a master spokesperson. He is a master at rhetoric. Once he knows what to run with, he’s very good at spinning that web, and he’s always been good at spinning that web. So I think what you see here is an example of finding that lifeline and spinning something very elaborate out of it that may give him the room to pull himself from a place that we didn’t think he had a lifeline from. This hasn’t historically been a show about happy endings ( ), but also, Taylor has taken and he has turned it into an intergenerational story. There are complexities that exist by virtue of doing that that I think make the world of the Dutton story so much richer and more interesting. ( ) I think it’s hard to say how much to read into it because there are so many threads dangled between these worlds that one could follow the path of. So I think the context of , within the historical saga that Taylor has been creating, is sort of the centerpiece. But the storylines are extending from it in many different ways. You many have stumped me! I think what you are feeling about it all seeming to happen so fast and how we’re at the final episode is testament to how many different ways things could go. I also think it’s testament to how much there is to wait for in the finale. Crafting a final episode to a six-season arc is something really difficult to do, and I think what people have to look forward to, in some ways, is that as much ground is covered in the finale as it has been the moments leading up to it. It has that kind of weight and complexity that a story like this deserves to go out with. I was surprised and I didn’t see it coming. I may have said this in one of our earlier interviews, but I think the conclusion to any great story is both surprising and inevitable, but you don’t realize it was inevitable until you get there. It all makes sense looking backward. But looking forward, you never would have seen it coming. That’s the magic place in storytelling and I think Taylor has done that with the finale. When I read the script, it took my breath away. And I’m someone who has been living in this world since season one. I know the characters intimately, I know the creator well, I know the story better than any story in my life, and I was sort of kicking myself that I didn’t see it coming. But, I didn’t see it coming. Let’s talk about Luke for a second. Because I think you are right: I think this season for him was magnificent. I think what Taylor wrote for him was magnificent, but I also think that Kayce has been the quiet hero in his father’s shadows from the very beginning. And there’s something that’s happened this season, that we talked about earlier, where in the absence of the patriarch everyone has to step up. And in the absence of Kevin [Costner], the rest of the cast really had a large stage to fill, and they did such a phenomenal job stepping in to fill that space, and Luke especially. So much was weighed on his shoulders this season ,and to be able to step into that and carry the story and the legacy in the way that he has, it’s been beautiful to watch. The burden from a performance standpoint that he has shouldered — he has done it so deftly and effortlessly — it’s a profound, profound performance from him this season and I love that people are in love with where his character has gone this season, because I am too. You’re going to have to watch next week. *** Yellowstone