Honduras gangs rule Honduras causing it to be one of the most violent countries in the world. This country is ruled by gangs rather than the government, security and laws which needs to stop. Families are forced to leave their homes when a gang comes and threatens them. Those who have been uprooted by a gang say that the gangs… Read more »
The High Court in Chile has sentenced 33 former intelligence agents for the disappearance of five political activists in 1987. The court said that the five had been abducted and killed, and their bodies thrown into the sea. Investigators said they were killed in revenge for the abduction of an army colonel by left-wing guerrillas. The five are believed to… Read more »
I find what the meat-packers did disgusting and horrendous. Not only are they putting thousands of people at risk health wise, they’re also damaging their economy and causing a huge scandal when all of this could’ve been avoided in the first place. On top of hurting the countries economy, JBS and BRF, the main companies involved, are hurting the stocks/shares… Read more »
Bolivia is doubling the amount of land devoted to coca production, while Colombia says illegal production of the plant used to produce cocaine has spiked to its highest levels in at least two decades. Rising bilateral tensions put in doubt Mexico’s cooperation with U.S. law enforcement in cracking down on drug traffickers. Argentina officials uncover a record cache in a… Read more »
Caracas, Venezuela – Luis Alberto Machado can barely sustain a conversation, let alone remember the day he attacked his mother by hitting her over the head with a rock. The 34-year-old was diagnosed with schizophrenia in his mid-teens. Back then he was still a boy but today his gangly frame towers over his petite 60-year-old mother, Maria Machado, making her an… Read more »
The death toll from heavy rains in Peru has risen to 67 people, with thousands more forced from their homes since the beginning of the year. Peruvian President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski said on Friday that the rains, which followed a period of severe drought, were a “serious climatic problem”. “There hasn’t been an incident of this strength along the coast… Read more »
The family of Cruz Velazquez Acevedo has been awarded $1m (£800,000) in settlement after the 16-year-old died from drinking liquid methamphetamine while in US custody. He was stopped by US border officers trying to enter the US from Mexico in 2013 with two containers of liquid. When he told them they contained apple juice, the agents told him to prove… Read more »
Brazilian police have raided the premises of global meatpacking companies JBS SA and BRF SA, as well as dozens of smaller rivals, in a crackdown on alleged bribery of health officials. The anti-corruption campaign threatens $12b in annual exports. The probe, known as Operation Weak Flesh, found evidence of meatpackers bribing inspectors and politicians to overlook unsanitary practices such as… Read more »
When does a man become US Secretary of State? When his wife tells him to. At least that’s what Rex Tillerson said in his latest interview. Apparently, he didn’t want the job and only took it because his wife said he was “supposed to.” “I didn’t want this job. I didn’t seek this job,” Tillerson said during a three-nation Asia… Read more »
Throughout the confusion of Donald Trump’s campaign and the chaotic events of his early days in the White House, one controversy has clung to the Trump train like glue: Russia.The sudden departure of Michael Flynn from his role as national security adviser in February and the revelations of Attorney General Jeff Sessions’s meetings with Russia’s ambassador Sergei Kislyak are among… Read more »