SAO PAULO/MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Brazilian police have arrested an alleged Mexican drug boss, federal prosecutors said on Wednesday, in a blow to one of the most powerful organizations in Mexico’s criminal underworld. According to the arrest warrant, police detained Jose Gonzalez Valencia, 42, a leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG), with the intention of fulfilling a U.S…. Read more »
CARACAS, Dec 28 (Reuters) – Venezuela’s cryptocurrency will launch within days and be backed by 5.3 billion barrels of oil worth $267 billion, in a bid to offset a deep financial crisis, the socialist government said on Thursday. President Nicolas Maduro surprised many earlier this month when he announced the “petro” cryptocurrency, to be backed by OPEC member Venezuela’s oil,… Read more »
(Reuters) – Brazil’s government issued a decree backtracking on plans to weaken the definition of slave labor in response to criticism and a court suspension of the original edict, according to the official government gazette on Friday. The revised decree undid changes to the definition involving exhaustive working hours and degrading work conditions and also removed limitations on the publication… Read more »
What role did you play in the simulation? I was a member of the Association for Refugees and Minorities (ARM) along with Max K. and Niko D. My role in this simulation was to read our opening statement to the committee as well as meet with Gilbia and the UNHCR. I encouraged Gilbia to continually accept refugees as well as… Read more »
On Sunday, December 17th, Juan Orlando Hernandez was declared president, yet opposing candidate, Salvador Nasralla, refuses to accept the election results; he believes the election is flawed and Hernandez’s second term illegitimate.
Guatemala’s foreign minister says her country’s decision to move its embassy in Israel to Jerusalem is final, urging the international community to “respect” this commitment. “It’s a decision that has been made … It is not going to be reversed,” Sandra Jovel told journalists on Friday, according to a report from the AFP news agency. “The Guatemalan government is very… Read more »
North Korean diplomats after declaring them persona non grata over Pyongyang’s “continued violations” of UN Security Council resolutions with its nuclear programme. “The government of Peru has informed the North Korean embassy of its decision to declare First Secretary Pak Myong Chol and Third Secretary Ji Hyok persona non grata as officers of the aforementioned diplomatic mission in Lima,” Peru’s… Read more »
Police in Peru have fired tear gas and clashed with protesters demonstrating against the official pardon of ex-president Alberto Fujimori. Tensions were high in Peru’s capital, Lima, on Monday, as thousands took to the streets, a day after current President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski ordered Fujimori’s clemency on health grounds. In 2009, Fujimori was sentenced to 25 years in prison for… Read more »
Tegucigalpa – Honduras’ beleaguered elections commission officially declared incumbent Juan Orlando Hernandez as president-elect on Sunday amid ongoing opposition cries of fraud three weeks after election day. Hernandez, Honduras’ first president to seek a second term in office, won by 50,446 votes, according to the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE). The TSE reported that Hernandez received 42.95 percent of the vote,… Read more »
My group played Budan in the simulation with group members Dane and Hadley. Nobody in the group had a specific role so we didn’t have group leader. We mostly just had one member who had experience with this sort of thing and was more than comfortable making statements about our country to the class. Although I didn’t talk that much… Read more »