Today will be the election day in the Central American country. The polling stations, which comprise more than 1,500 seats around the country, were opened this morning at 7 a.m. and closed at 5 p.m. According to the First Electoral Monitoring Report 2019, cited by CNN, around 1.3 million votes are needed to win the presidential elections in El Salvador. 5… Read more »
Yesterday a new day of demonstrations took place in Venezuela. The marches were called by Juan Guaidó, the new leader of the opposition and president of the Assembly, to demonstrate against the government of Nicolás Maduro. The points of concentration in the city of Caracas were in El Marqués, Santa Fé Distributor, Boulevard del Cafetal, Millenium Shopping Center and Plaza José Martí… Read more »
Venezuelan military officers blocked a bridge on the border with Colombia ahead of an anticipated humanitarian aid shipment Tuesday, as opposition leader Juan Guaido stepped up his challenge to President Nicolas Maduro’s authority.ADVERTISING The opposition-dominated National Assembly had earlier warned the armed forces, which make up much of Maduro‘s power base, not to cross a “red line” by blocking aid. Guaido,… Read more »
On January 26, 2019 Juan Guiado declared himself the new leader of Venezuela, the interesting part is that Nicolas Maduro actually won the election and Juan Guiado actually refuses to concede. This has caused a great divide between the two major parties in Venezuela. Juan Guiado has 40 countries that currently recognize him as the leader and has backing from… Read more »
Since 2018, Nicaragua has been involved in a series of protests against reforms to the Nicaraguan Institute of Social Security, added to the fact that thousands of Nicaraguans came out to demand that Daniel Ortega leave power. As a consequence of the above, those people who speak out against the proposed reforms or against the Ortega government suffer strong repressions, to the… Read more »
After the recent sanctions of Donald Trump to PDVSA that will prevent the arrival of 500 thousand barrels per day of oil from Venezuela, many will wonder what other countries can arrive that amount of barrels to avoid an energy deficit inside the United States. For this, we must observe how two fundamental elements of the oil balance of that country have evolved:… Read more »
At least 28 Haitians have drowned off the coast of Abaco in the Bahamas, officials said Sunday, the latest tragedy at sea for migrants seeking to leave the Caribbean’s poorest economy.ADVERTISING “Thus far, a total of 17 persons have been rescued alive and 28 bodies have been recovered from the water” after two days of dive operations, the Royal Bahamas… Read more »
President Donald Trump on Thursday talked up China’s commitment to buy more American soybeans. But the tough issues dividing the world’s two biggest economies remained unsettled after two days of meetings between U.S. and Chinese negotiators. Trump said he expects to meet with his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, to try to reach a final resolution to the six-month trade standoff…. Read more »
The Trump Administration’s decision to withdraw from a major nuclear arms treaty with Russia could have serious long-term consequences, potentially reshaping the global nature of the nuclear threat from Europe to Asia. On Friday, the Administration announced that the U.S. intends to withdraw the landmark Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, citing Russia’s violation of covertly developing and fielding a prohibited missile… Read more »
Just one day after his inauguration, Brazil’s right-wing populist President Jair Bolsonaro faced his first public-security crisis. On Jan. 2, prison gangs launched a terrorism campaign throughout Ceara state, paralyzing the capital city, Fortaleza. Although he has deployed federal troops, violence continues: 278 attacks in 55 cities over 26 days (and counting), with bridges and overpasses bombed, electricity knocked out in some neighborhoods, schools and gas… Read more »