Two decades ago, Maria Rivas emigrated from El Salvador to the United States, where she received temporary protected status (TPS) allowing her to stay and legally work. But later this year, TPS – a humanitarian program — is set to expire for nearly 200,000 immigrants from El Salvador, including Rivas. If forced to leave the U.S., Maria won’t take her U.S.-born daughter,… Read more »
Former president of Mexico, Nieto, was found guilty of accepting a one-hundred million dollar bribe from drug lord El Chapo. When you first see this you are surprised. Coming from a democratic country with relatively limited scandals, seeing something like this comes as a shell shock. Once you start to look at the conditions of the country though, you see… Read more »
President Donald Trump warned Turkey on Sunday of economic devastation if it attacks Kurdish forces in the wake of the US troop pullout from Syria, while also urging the Kurds not to “provoke” Ankara.ADVERTISING Trump took to Twitter to reveal some of his latest thoughts in the slow drip-drip of information being released by his administration after his shocking December announcement… Read more »
Saudi teen Rahaf Mohammed al-Qunun, who drew global notice on Twitter last week after fleeing to Thailand, feels ‘reborn’ in Canada. Despite further aggravating ties with Riyadh, granting Qunun asylum may be a win for Canada and Justin Trudeau, too.ADVERTISING With Canada-Saudi relations at a low after a row last summer over Ottawa’s outspoken support of imprisoned Saudi human rights activists, the move was… Read more »
Hundreds of Hondurans have set off on a new migrant caravan towards the United States. An estimated 500 left early on Tuesday from the bus terminal in the crime-ridden Honduran city of San Pedro Sula. Another group of about 300 set off a few hours later. It comes as thousands of Hondurans and other Central Americans remain stranded in Tijuana… Read more »
Former Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto accepted a $100m (£77m) bribe from drug cartel kingpin Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, a witness has testified. Alex Cifuentes, who says he was a close associate of Guzmán for years, told a New York City courtroom that he had told authorities of the bribe in 2016. Guzmán is accused of being behind the Sinaloa… Read more »
Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador says his crackdown on gas thieves in the country is working, even though long lines at the pump in several states persist, distribution bottlenecks continue and new acts of fuel theft are reported. As he has done every day since the gas crisis, now well into its second week, López Obrador insists gas sales… Read more »
Nicolas Maduro has been sworn in as president of Venezuela, taking power for six more years amid an economic crisis that has caused an outpouring of migrants from the country. The socialist successor to Hugo Chavez won re-election to a second term last May, in a contest that was denounced as a sham by the United States, Canada and a dozen Latin… Read more »
President Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil signed an executive order making it more easily accessible for Brazilian citizens to obtain a firearm. Bolsonaro is an army veteran has strong republican like beliefs. In 2017 there were over 64,000 murders in Brazil. That was a new Brazilian record, not a good one, and it lead the entire world in murder rates. Brazil… Read more »
A former commander of Colombia’s Farc rebel group, Iván Márquez, has released a video six months after going into hiding. In the film, he accuses the government of betraying the terms of the historic peace agreement signed in 2016. He says 400 community leaders and 85 former fighters have been killed since the peace accord was signed . Mr Márquez… Read more »