France 24 Honduran police fired tear gas at rock-hurling protesters on Thursday after a widely criticized presidential election that has still to produce a clear winner stretched into its fourth day of vote counting. Both President Juan Orlando Hernandez and his rival Salvador Nasralla, a television game show host allied with leftists, claimed victory after Sunday’s election. The vote tally… Read more »
France 24 Honduras suspended the right to free movement on Friday, imposing a dusk-to-dawn curfew and giving the army and police extended powers after looting and protests triggered by a contested election killed at least one person. Five days after polls closed, no clear winner has emerged from Sunday’s vote. President Juan Orlando Hernandez has clawed back a thin lead… Read more »
France 24 President Nicolas Maduro said on Sunday Venezuela would launch a cryptocurrency to combat a U.S.-led financial “blockade,” although he provided few clues about how the economically crippled OPEC member would pull off the feat. “Venezuela will create a cryptocurrency… the ‘petro,’ to advance in issues of monetary sovereignty, to make financial transactions and overcome the financial blockade,” leftist… Read more »
France 24 Electoral authorities in Honduras seemed poised to hand the president a second term on Monday even after tens of thousands took to the streets in the biggest protests yet over suspected vote count fraud since last week’s disputed election. U.S.-backed President Juan Orlando Hernandez called for his supporters to wait for a final count as protesters from the… Read more »
Donald Trump has pulled the U.S out of the Global Compact on Migration because it is “inconsistant”. The U.S. ambassador saying that “immigration policies must always be made by Americans and Americans alone.” She also mentioned that it “isn’t compatible with U.S. sovereignty” I feel, that by pulling out of this agreement, we aren’t helping other countries the most we… Read more »
President Donald Trump’s administration has withdrawn the United States from a United Nations pact to improve the handling of migrant and refugee situations, deeming it “inconsistent” with its policies, the US mission to the UN announced Saturday. “Today, the US Mission to the United Nations informed the UN Secretary-General that the United States is ending its participation in the Global… Read more »
“Venezuela will create a cryptocurrency… the ‘petro,’ to advance in issues of monetary sovereignty, to make financial transactions and overcome the financial blockade,” leftist Maduro said during his weekly Sunday televised broadcast. The digital currency will be backed by Venezuelan reserves of gold, oil, gas, and diamonds, he said during the near five-hour show, which included traditional Christmas songs and… Read more »
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – German industrial group Siemens AG is negotiating a settlement worth more than 1 billion reais ($307 million) with Brazilian state prosecutors over a civil case related to probes into whether bribes were paid to win train contracts, according to a Monday newspaper report. A logo of Siemens is pictured on a building in Mexico City,… Read more »
BOGOTA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Mexico must step up efforts to protect vulnerable indigenous migrant workers who are at risk of becoming trapped in forced labor and enslaved in farms, the government’s human rights commission said. Poverty and a lack of jobs force entire families from rural tribal communities, many coming from the country’s poorest southern states of Oaxaca and… Read more »
Costa Rica has decided to use funds to build electric car ports so those that have the electric cars can use them more. CR is doing this in hopes of others then buying electric cars so the emission rate will go down. If this should happen, CR would be within the lines of the Paris Agreement, on which they signed…. Read more »