It is truly heart breaking on what these natural disasters have done to these places these past few months. For people to be isolated like they’re in San Lorenzo right now is horrible. I know FEMA is going to get back to them and help them soon but I hope they do it as soon as possible. The children, the ill,… Read more »
http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/28/americas/puerto-rico-san-lorenzo/index.html San Lorenzo, Puerto Rico (CNN)Nelson Maldonado had already gone days without running water or electricity, after Hurricane Maria ravaged Puerto Rico. On Thursday, he went to check on his wife’s 95-year-old grandmother, Rosa M. Torres, who was also living without power through sweltering heat and humidity. She lives across the river from him, in the mountainous town of San… Read more »
http://latinamericanpost.com/index.php/global-issues/16681-brazil-cleaning-out-favelas Rocinha, the largest favela in Brazil, was taken over by the nation’s army in order to guarantee its lack of drug traffickers and delinquency. 950 soldiers have been deployed in response to a request from the Rio de Janeiro state government, which faces liquidity problems, said Defense Minister Raúl Jungmann. So far, the death toll has risen to… Read more »
http://latinamericanpost.com/index.php/business-2/16686-bolivia-the-largest-commercial-hub Things are fast changing in Bolivia. Through a $120 million-dollar loan from the Inter-American Development Bank, Bolivia will be able to optimize its institutional capacity for transportation which will improve infrastructure and operations for the South American country over the next 40 years. The transport sector generated 7.83% of the national GDP in 2015 and created workspaces for… Read more »
This is probably something that would be really common anywhere in a good first world country. They are all probably looking at someone to blame, this earthquake has left over 300 people homeless. I will admit that I do think that some politicians are going to try and take tremendous advantage of the earthquake situation, but I don’t think that… Read more »
www.telesurtv.net Bolivia’s President, who sent aid to Cuba last week and has more shipments planned, said “this is solidarity between brother peoples,” on his Twitter. A cargo plane carrying 11 tons of humanitarian aid from the Bolivian government has been sent to Mexico following the massive, devastating earthquake that happened on September 19th in the center of the country, taking… Read more »
www.economist.com LIKE a sheriff in one last gunfight, Rodrigo Janot hoped to end his career in a blaze of glory. On September 14th, three days before the end of his term as Brazil’s chief prosecutor, he accused the country’s president, Michel Temer, of obstructing justice and of racketeering. In a 245-page document, Mr Janot alleges that Mr Temer was the… Read more »
http://www.telegraph.co.uk Startling new details have emerged in the Cuban “sonic harassment attacks”, with reports suggesting that diplomats were targeted in specific rooms or even a part of a specific room. The state department said earlier this week that 21 US diplomats are now known to be affected, and several Canadians. British diplomats are not believed to have been affected by the incidents,… Read more »
www.theguardian.com Two days after Rosario Islas’s cinderblock shack collapsed in Mexico’s massive earthquake last week, a group of political operatives turned up at her ruined home, in the borough of Xochimilco in the south of the capital. They had food, water and building materials – but before they would hand anything over, they demanded Islas show her government-issued voter ID…. Read more »
The Cocaine problem in Colombia has not gone away. Recent threats by President Trump questioning the ability and motivation behind Colombia’s preventive measures to stopping it have caused the country to go into a panic. Colombia has began to offer subsidies of 8,000 dollars for farmers to tear up the coca plant, and promise not to grow Cocaine.However, experts in… Read more »