I found the Honduran congressman arrest over drug trafficking quite interesting because the US has now moved on to arresting those traffickers of higher power in their country. Honduras has, and still is, dealing with an influx of drug trafficking. This “business” is one of the only ways many people living in Honduras make money. I’d expect to see a trial… Read more »
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Federal authorities announced drug trafficking and weapons charges against a congressman from Honduras on Friday, the latest U.S. case accusing current and former officials of the Central American country of involvement in the drug trade. Fredy Renan Najera Montoya, 41, was charged with conspiring to import “huge quantities of cocaine” into the United States, according to… Read more »
SAN JOSE (Reuters) – Three conservative candidates lead the race to win Costa Rica’s presidential election next month, but none of them is likely to garner enough votes to avoid a second-round runoff, according to a poll published on Friday. Costa Ricans will vote for their next president and 57 lawmakers on Feb. 4, but many voters in the coffee-exporting… Read more »
HAVANA (Reuters) – Cuban actress Aniet Hernandez lost all hope that she and her two children would ever join her husband in Miami when the Trump administration slashed staffing at the U.S. embassy in Havana in September and stopped almost all visa processing. “When I heard the news, I thought my marriage was over, that my family was being destroyed,”… Read more »
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico’s attorney general’s office said on Friday it had requested the extradition of a former ruling party governor accused of corruption and electoral crimes, though it did not identify the country involved. Separate requests were made for the extradition of Cesar Duarte, who governed the northern state of Chihuahua from 2010 to 2016, a source in… Read more »
Hugo Martinez, the Salvadoran foreign minister, visited Qatar this week in order to establish greater relations between the countries. One topic discussed in particular was the fate of over 200,000 undocumented Salvadoran people who will be deported from the United States by September 2019 following the removal of their temporary protected status (TPS). The Salvadoran Government is hopeful that Qatar… Read more »
Advocates were counting on Democrats to force Republicans to guarantee a protected future for undocumented immigrants brought to the United States as children during negotiations surrounding the US government shutdown. But the American government was open on Tuesday morning after a three-day closure without any concrete protections for those often called “Dreamers”.
Luiz Inacio “Lula” da Silva – a leftist leader who rose from abject poverty to serve as Brazil’s president from 2003 to 2010 – was widely tipped to win the country’s 2018 general election. However, an appeals court on Wednesday upheld corruption and money-laundering convictions against the 71-year-old, and he is now barred from running. Once called “the most popular… Read more »
El Salvador is seeking to reach an agreement with Qatar to allow Salvadoran migrants who are forced to leave the United States to work temporarily in the Gulf country, a spokesperson for the Salvadoran presidency said on Tuesday. Last week, US President Donald Trump’s administration said that as of September 2019, it would eliminate the temporary protected status, or TPS,… Read more »
Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro has said he is “ready to be a candidate” after the country’s Constituent Assembly unanimously voted to hold a presidential election by the end of April. The move on Tuesday came amid growing speculation that elections would be held in the first part of 2018, as the ruling Socialists hope to take advantage of a deep… Read more »