Question

In December 2023, this country extradited defense contractor “Fat Leonard” to the U.S. as part of a prisoner exchange deal for jailed businessman Alex Saab. This country’s attorney general Tarek William Saab accused several opposition figures of sabotaging a referendum in which voters agreed to reject the Paris Arbitral Award in favor of the Geneva Agreement. Ralph Gonsalves brokered talks in which this (15[1])country’s leader and (*) Irfaan (-5[1])Ali agreed to settle a (-5[1])boundary dispute in international (10[1])courts; that dispute over a region east of the Schomburgk Line has been criticized by this country’s former presidential claimant Juan Guaidó. For 10 (10[1])points, name this Latin American country that has contested its eastern neighbor’s (10[1])control over the (10[1])Essequibo region under Nicolás Maduro. (10[1])■END■

ANSWER: Venezuela [or Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela; or República Bolivariana de Venezuela]
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Jacob Hardin-BernhardtNYU AColumbia B6315
Jake GrodnerPrincetonNYU B67-5
Matthew SiffYaleRutgers72-5
Cooper RohColumbia ALehigh B7610
Evan SchleckGathererBard10010
Eddie FuhrerLehigh ANYU C11210
Lexi TermanRutgersYale11510
Annie WilliamsNYU BPrinceton12010

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2024 Booster Shot (Columbia)02/23/2024Y6100%17%33%97.67
2024 Booster Shot (Waterloo)02/23/2024Y4100%50%25%82.25
2024 Booster Shot (Vanderbilt)03/02/2024Y4100%0%0%108.00
2024 Booster Shot (Great Lakes)03/09/2024Y6100%17%0%90.33
2024 Booster Shot (WUSTL)03/09/2024Y2100%0%0%105.50