Haitian Oxfam workers tried to warn of sex scandal before By Will GrantBBC News, Port-au-Prince 13 February 2018 Share Related Topics 2010 Haiti earthquake For an industry that generally operates in the shadows, prostitution in Haiti is barely hidden from view. On certain street corners of Pétion-Ville, an upscale suburb of the capital, young sex workers huddle in groups, hoping… Read more »
WorldViews Venezuela launches the ‘petro,’ its cryptocurrency By Rachelle Krygier February 20 A woman walks by banners of Venezuelan bolivar notes displayed at the Venezuelan Central Bank building in Caracas, Venezuela, on Jan. 31, 2018. (Marco Bello/Reuters) CARACAS, Venezuela — Crisis-ridden Venezuela is launching an oil-backed cryptocurrency Tuesday that it hopes will help circumvent U.S. financial sanctions and resurrect the country’s moribund economy…. Read more »
Reuters Exclusive: As Trump trashes NAFTA, Mexico turns to Brazilian corn P.J. Huffstutter, Adriana Barrera 7 MIN READ CHICAGO/MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexican buyers imported ten times more corn from Brazil last year amid concern that NAFTA renegotiations could disrupt their U.S. supplies, according to government data and top grains merchants. An employee takes samples of corn imported from Brazil for… Read more »
A new land grant was recently passed in Canada that could allow thousands of Sinixt people from the United States to hunt in Canada. It started with a man named Rick DeSautel being apprehended by British Colombian conservation officers after it was discovered he was an American citizen who shot and killed an elk on Canadian soil. His case ended… Read more »
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New York Times CORAL SPRINGS, Fla. — The Broward County sheriff on Wednesday defended his office’s response to one of the deadliest school shootings in American history amid questions over whether some of his deputies hung back instead of pursuing the gunman accused of killing 17 people. Sheriff Scott Israel said that, to his knowledge, deputies followed protocol and did… Read more »
Washington Post This past week, China held its second ministerial meeting with the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) in Santiago, Chile. There China announced plans to have the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), its flagship economic and development program, invest in Latin America. During the past decade, Chinese policy banks, charged by the government to finance infrastructure and… Read more »