One of my stories was about a Colombian veterinarian who smuggled liquid bags of heroin into puppies back in 2005, he was a fugitive until very recently and now is doing his time in jail. He tried to smuggle the puppies into the United States and they were found in New York City. However you have to think about this,… Read more »
Recently I did my semester one paper on Haiti, and it taught me a lot about the country and what seems like the ongoing crisis there. So what happened is 28 Haitian immigrants were trying to escape to America, this is an incredibly dangerous journey that happens incredibly often. Haiti is in such turmoil that people are more willing to… Read more »
Canada’s former attorney general on Wednesday accused Justin Trudeau’s inner circle of attempting to head off the fraud prosecution of an engineering giant – a case that has caused the prime minister major embarrassment eight months before elections. Trudeau responded that he “completely disagrees with the former attorney general’s characterization of events.” Jody Wilson-Raybould made her accusations before the House of Commons justice… Read more »
Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido said on Sunday he would return home to lead new protests against President Nicolas Maduro on Monday, running the risk authorities arrest him given that he flouted a travel ban to leave the country last week. Guaido left Ecuador earlier on Sunday after spending the past few days touring Latin American nations to muster support, but he… Read more »
Huawei said Thursday it was suing the United States for barring government agencies from buying the Chinese telecom giant’s products, following warnings that they could serve as a tool for Chinese intelligence services. Huawei said the suit was filed in a US District Court in Plano, Texas, challenging a 2019 US defence bill that prevents US government agenciesfrom buying the company’s equipment… Read more »
Venezuela expelled Germany’s ambassador Wednesday, hitting out at international support for opposition leader Juan Guaido as the US stepped up sanctions in a bid to force out his rival President Nicolas Maduro. Separately, an American journalist was detained by Venezuelan security services for some 12 hours and later deported, in an incident condemned by advocacy groups as an attack on… Read more »
Venezuela’s external debt rose to $156 billion in 2018, a new report estimates. That means the amount it owes is about 738% of the value of exports. As oil exports continue to decline, debt will pile up at an increasing rate. As Venezuela’s crisis deepens, it’s spiraling further into the red. External debt in the collapsing country has more than doubled over… Read more »
BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazilian anthropologists are looking for members of an Amazon tribe that has had little or no contact with the outside world to steer them clear of a rival indigenous group and avoid a bloody clash of cudgels against arrows.A view of the Korubo tribe in the Javari Valley reservation, Brazil February 1, 2019. FUNAI/Handout via Reuters FUNAI,… Read more »
Parading through the city streets clad only in body paint to preserve their modesty, the female protesters also covered the walls of subway stations bearing masculine names with posters of well-known Chilean artists and the names of women who’d been the victims of gender violence. A group of ten women shed their clothes and marched across the Chilean capital of Santiago wearing little… Read more »
SANTIAGO, Chile — Chile’s Roman Catholic church, already the target of Vatican sanctions, was being shaken Tuesday by yet another allegation of priestly abuse and high-level cover-up. Daniel Rojas Alvarez, a 43-year-old indigent man, appeared on a state television broadcast Monday night saying that a priest at the Santiago Cathedral had drugged and raped him in 2015. He said Cardinal… Read more »