Source The Washington Post OTTAWA — In a scene more common in Canada’s neighbor to the south, a shootout at a Toronto bowling alley last weekend left a suspected gang member dead. A 29-year-old woman was caught in the crossfire and later died at a hospital. For a country proud of its largely peaceful streets and much lower levels of gun… Read more »
Source CNN (CNN)A man who killed six worshippers at a Quebec City mosque told an investigator he carried out the January 2017 attack after seeing reports the Canadian government would welcome more refugees into the country, according to CNN partner CBC. A video of Alexandre Bissonnette’s interrogation was played in court Friday during the third day of his sentencing hearing, CBC… Read more »
Source CNN Havana, Cuba (CNN)For the first time in the lives of most Cubans, a man not named Castro will lead the Communist-run island nation. Cuba’s National Assembly announced Thursday that First Vice President Miguel Diaz-Canel, 57, will replace Raul Castro as the head of the Cuban government. Castro embraced Diaz-Canel — who wasn’t even born when Fidel Castro led his revolution in 1959… Read more »
A meeting of the summit of the Americas is due to take place on April 13. At least 20 heads of state will meet in order to unite the different regions of America and discuss the current issues plaguing the Americas. The meeting, however, could not take place at a worse time, due to the multitude of problems in the… Read more »
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/04/summit-americas-begins-regional-tumult-180410122908232.html The summit unites the leaders of the Americas as corruption scandals continue and Trump sends US troops to the border. an hour ago The summit begins less than a month after Peru’s president assumed office following the previous leader’s resignation [Martin Mejia/AP Photo] MORE ON US & CANADA US sends mixed signals over military action in Syriatoday A Higher… Read more »
https://latinamericanpost.com/index.php/analysis-latam/20546-colombia-is-peace-threatened-by-a-former-guerrilla-leader With the capture of Jesus Santrich for drug trafficking, the Havana agreements face their first test of fire For Jesus Santrich, the demobilization and the road to the Congress of the Republic suffered the greatest setback. For the now FARC party and for the Colombian government itself, the capture of Santrich implies the first test of fire for the… Read more »
http://www.france24.com/en/20180407-arizona-texas-send-400-troops-border-trump-order The US states of Texas and Arizona on Friday announced plans to send National Guard troops to the southern border with Mexico after President Donald Trump ordered a thousands-strong deployment to combat drug trafficking and illegal immigration. The Texas National Guard said it would send 250 troops to the border within 72 hours and had already deployed two Lakota… Read more »
http://www.france24.com/en/20180410-colombia-arrest-ex-farc-leader-jesus-santrich-peace-deal-threatened Colombian authorities arrested a former top rebel peace negotiator on a U.S. drug warrant Monday, delivering a major blow to the country’s already teetering attempts to put a half century of political violence behind it. Seuxis Hernandez, a blind rebel ideologue best known by his alias Jesus Santrich, was picked up at his residence in Bogota on charges that… Read more »
This week yet another issue has come up which threatens to unravel Columbia’s 2016 peace deal with FARC. One of FARC’s leaders who had helped to negotiate the peace treaty, Jesus Santrich, was arrested on a US warrant for smuggling massive amounts of cocaine into the US. The complications, however, are due to the current instability of the Columbian peace… Read more »
20 killed in attempted prison escape in Brazil’s Belem – Al Jazeera The state security service described the mass escape attempt as a military-style battle with inmates aided from outside. Several inmates and one guard have died in an attempted prison breakout in the northern city Brazilian city of Belem. The inmates were aided by an armed group on the… Read more »