Simulation Reflection In our simulation, my role essentially was a resolution builder/informal negotiator. It was I who initially suggested to the others that we should look to the neighboring countries for aid in this migrant crisis. Overall, I felt our group was well prepared, we had a strong opening statement, and in the end we acquired a resolution that… Read more »
Brazil’s state-run oil company has said it will pay $2.95bn to settle a class action brought by investors in the United States. Petroleo Brasileiro SA, commonly known as Petrobras, said in a statement on Wednesday that the settlement would bring to an end a legal battle with investors claiming to have suffered losses as a result of a region-wide corruption… Read more »
2017 is set to be Mexico’s most violent year on record, with 23,101 homicide cases opened during the first 11 months of the year. These homicide cases can contain more than one victim. A number of categories of crime saw increases in 2017, but the year also proved to be the deadliest in the past decade for Mexico’s politicians —… Read more »
I was a member of Malil, along with Spiro and Mckenzie. Mckenzie was really comfortable speaking so she did most of the statements. We had a huge shared document we all added stuff too. Spiro and I wrote our Opening statement. Going into this we had certain things set out for us to do, for example we were not going… Read more »
I don’t think that allowing transgender people into the military is a bad thing. I recognize that there is a huge debate over it. Some people saying that the transgender individuals won’t be focused on serving the country. I disagree because the people that enlist know what they are going into and are joining the military to fight for their… Read more »
A former paramilitary chief accused of 3,000 crimes was Tuesday returned to his native Colombia to face justice after being deported from the United States, where he had been incarcerated on drug charges.
A fire tore through a Bronx apartment building on Thursday, killing at least 12 people, including a toddler, and leaving four others fighting for their lives in New York’s deadliest blaze in decades.
Nine inmates were killed, 14 were injured, and dozens escaped in a prison riot on Monday, national news media reported, in the latest example of Brazil’s continuing difficulties maintaining control over its notoriously violent penal system. According to newspaper O Estado de São Paulo, 106 prisoners escaped the prison in the city of Goiânia, near the Brazilian capital of Brasilia…. Read more »
Transgender individuals wishing to enlist in the US military are now free to openly do so, despite efforts by President Donald Trump to bar transgender personnel from serving “in any capacity.” As of January 1, the Pentagon is allowing transgender people to sign up, providing they meet certain medical criteria. The milestone is the latest in a string of setbacks… Read more »
TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) – Honduras’ murder rate fell by more than a quarter in 2017 to 42.8 killings per 100,000 people, the security ministry said on Tuesday, attributing the decline to a government onslaught against drug traffickers and gangs. The Central American country, which has been engulfed in a political crisis since a disputed Nov. 26 presidential election, had a 2016… Read more »