The United Nations says there are now three million refugees and migrants from Venezuela who have left the country due to its crumbling economy, violence, hyperinflation and shortage of food and medicines. The figure amounts to around one in 12 of the population. Of the three million, 2.3 million have left Venezuela since 2015, according to United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) spokesman… Read more »
When there is any situation going on in the world, countries look to the United States to provide guidance. US involvement in South America, specifically Venezuela is working against these nations. During this Midterm season, the President has been using fear mongering as a major tactic. The migrant caravan, consisting of Venezuelans and others, is in a way the fault… Read more »
US President Donald Trump will take his first major trip to South America later this week to advocate for stronger economic ties in the region. However, the leaders he meets are are likely to just “smile and nod” with the massively unpopular US leader and achieve little in the way of new policies. The president will attend the Summit of the Americas in Lima, Peru,… Read more »
President Donald Trump vowed to end the right of citizenship to children born in the United States to non-citizens and illegal immigrants in his latest bid to dramatically reshape immigration policies just days before the midterm elections. Trump would target the citizenship right through an executive order, he told news website Axios in an interview published on Tuesday, a move… Read more »
Trump told journalists at the White House that a group of several thousand migrants attempting to walk from Central America through Mexico had thrown rocks “viciously and violently” at Mexican police. “We’re not going to put up with that. They want to throw rocks at our military, our military fights back,” he said. “I told them (troops) consider it (a rock) a rifle…. Read more »
Recently, Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil’s president-elect, has considered moving its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. This is a decision supported by Israel’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. Tel Aviv is the second most populous city in Israel following Jerusalem. Its known as the economic and technological center of the country. The ongoing conflict between the Palestinians and Israelis has raised questions… Read more »
Most of the migrants are from Honduras, in Central America. They say they left their home country because they live in fear of Honduras’s violent gangs or to seek better employment opportunities. The caravan left San Pedro Sula, in eastern Honduras, on 13 October. Many of the migrants are exhausted after having travelled 1,600km (1,000 miles) in less than a… Read more »
A YEAR AGO the idea that Jair Bolsonaro, a far-right former army captain with an unimpressive career as a congressman, might become Brazil’s president seemed outlandish. Since the first round of Brazil’s national election on October 7th the main question has not been whether he will win but how he will govern. On October 28th he beat Fernando Haddad, of… Read more »
ALBERTO QUESADA loads a flatbed lorry in a field in the middle of the night for a two-hour drive to the dense mangrove swamps on the Gulf of Batabanó. “It’s important that they wake up in their new habitat,” he says of his cargo of bees. In the summer his 30,000 hive-dwellers feast on coastal flowers; in the autumn they forage… Read more »
It is the latest expression of a backlash against men’s exploitation of female subordinates in a business, entertainment and politics. In Silicon Valley, women also are becoming fed up with the male-dominated composition of the technology industry’s workforce – a glaring imbalance that critics say fosters unsavory behavior akin to a college fraternity house. Employees were seen staging walkouts at… Read more »