President-elect Donald Trump already questioned a meeting with intelligence officials regarding Russian hacking and openly stated that America needs to “move one” and forget that a foreign country deliberately interfered in our electoral process. Now Trump has set yet another precedent, choosing to take the word of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange over that of the United States intelligence community. There are,… Read more »
The United Nations said Thursday it has sacked four members of its monitoring mission for the Colombian peace process for dancing with FARC rebels at a New Year’s Eve party.
Jovenel Moise won Haiti’s presidential elections with 55.6 percent of the first round vote held on November 20, according to official results released Tuesday. The announcement by Haiti‘s Provisional Electoral Council puts an end to a protracted electoral process that began in October 2015 and paralyzed the Caribbean country’s politics for more than a year.
Venezuela’s leader Nicolas Maduro named an ex-security minister Wednesday as his vice-president, who would become head of state if Maduro were removed from office this year as the opposition demands.
Police in Jamaica say that one of the men charged with killing two American missionaries has escaped custody. Dwight Henry is accused of murdering Randy Hentzel and Harold Nichols during a robbery in St. Mary’s Parish Jamaica. The two American missionaries were found dead on April 30, 2016. They had lived in the parish for years. Andre Thomas is also… Read more »
Citibanamex can’t catch a break. It’s been hammered by a fraud scandal, had its management shaken up, and weathered a lengthy period of uncertainty over whether its parent would hang a for-sale sign above it. The Mexican lender looked to be putting those worries behind it last year, when Citigroup in the US announced a billion-dollar investment in the bank…. Read more »
Apodaca, Mexico — In 30 years at Whirlpool, working at the company’s manufacturing plant in this industrial Mexican town, Jose Luis Rico has witnessed some pretty major changes. The work force has grown, churning out refrigerators that look more like robots than the simple models of his early career. Fueling the changes was a free-trade agreement among Mexico, Canada and… Read more »
What the president of the United States says sets the tone and shapes American foreign policy. As a candidate and even as president-elect, Donald Trump has shown little interest in the protocols, agreements and practices that have marked American foreign policy – and even less interest in spelling out a consistent foreign policy of his own. His impulsive style and… Read more »
Here we go. President-elect Donald Trump apparently tuned in to FOX News Tuesday night for Sean Hannity’s sit down with Wikileaks chief Julian Assange, who appears to be emerging as a surprising ally of some conservatives in Washington. Trump tweeted Wednesday morning that Assange backs up his own suspicions over the U.S. government and a variety of independent cybersecurity firms’… Read more »
Rosibel Diaz used to affectionately call her 4-year-old son “my chubby boy.” She couldn’t stand it when he started going hungry. So in November, Diaz packed up her family’s possessions and boarded a bus with the boy and her 11-month-old daughter to escape Venezuela’s famished interior. She now lives under a blue tarp in a trash-strewn alleyway of this Brazilian… Read more »