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But what set Hood’s creation apart—and why it might lay claim to having a prominent role in the making of modern American corporations—was its design.

He told senior U.S. officials that if his company couldn’t pump oil in Venezuela, China would do so instead and lay claim to the region’s oil riches.

“He sends out masked men, he sends out Border Patrol, he sends out ICE, he creates anxiety and fear in the community so that he can lay claim to solving that by sending in the Guard,” Newsom said.

Far from avoiding transcendent artistic experiences, the left can lay claim to most of them.

Whichever nation establishes a presence there first could lay claim to the region for themselves.