https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/feb/19/justin-trudeaus-top-adviser-resigns-as-political-meddling-scandal-widens

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s top adviser has resigned while denying allegations that he pressured Canada’s former attorney general to avoid prosecuting a major Canadian engineering company.

Principal secretary Gerald Butts has been Trudeau’s closest adviser and best friend since university, and his resignation over the widening scandal was a significant blow to the prime minister, who is facing an election this year.

The Globe and Mail newspaper reported this month that Trudeau or his staff pressured Wilson-Raybould to try to avoid a criminal prosecution of Montreal-based SNC-Lavalin over allegations of corruption involving government contracts in Libya.

https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-venezuela-politics-citgo-executives/three-top-citgo-executives-removed-amid-battle-to-control-firm-sources-idUKKCN1Q800R?rpc=401&

(Reuters) - Citgo Petroleum Corp has removed at least three executives close to Asdrubal Chavez, appointed by Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro to manage state-run PDVSA’s U.S. refining firm, two sources with knowledge of the decision said on Monday.

Citgo has become the epicentre of the political battle raging in the South American country as the opposition backed by many Western nations seeks to remove Maduro and hold a new presidential election.

Venezuela’s opposition-controlled congress last week appointed a new board of directors to run Citgo, Venezuela’s most important foreign asset, led by Venezuelan Luisa Palacios and a group of oil executives. The new board has yet to take office at the company’s Houston headquarters.