link to article Prosecutors in Mexico have arrested 30 Marines in connection with the disappearance of individuals in the northern state of Tamaulipas in 2014 according to the Navy on Monday. A Naval Secretariat said in a statement Monday, “Thirty naval service members were made available to the Attorney General’s Office on April 9 in compliance with arrest warrants for… Read more »
Link to article: https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/13/americas/ecuador-peru-election-early-results-analysis-intl-latam/index.html Peru and Ecuador both held presidential elections this past weekend. The pandemic has reached its one-year mark, and its influences are starting to become evident through the political choices of different countries. Voter turnout numbers make it clear that extenuating circumstances created by the pandemic negatively affected low-income workers. In Ecuador, voters opted for a far-right… Read more »
Link to article: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/4/15/kamala-harris-to-visit-mexico-guatemala-to-discuss-migrants The US has very recently faced a marked increase of unattended children attempting to cross its Southern border. The US Vice President, Kamala Harris, announced that as a part of her plan to decrease the amount of migrant children arriving at the border, she will be visiting Mexico and Guatemala. Harris hopes to use diplomacy with… Read more »
link to article 233,152 Mexican health workers have contracted Covid-19 and 3,699 have died because of it. According to the government data, Mexico has the highest death count for health care workers in the world. Many health care workers are blocking main roads to the president’s national palace because he is refusing to give the frontline workers vaccines. President Andres… Read more »
Link to article: https://www.politico.com/news/2021/04/14/canadian-parliament-taiwan-president-481637 The Halifax International Security Forum recently chose to honor Tsai Ing-wen, Taiwan’s president, with an important award. Canada’s House of Commons supported this decision on Wednesday with a unanimous vote. The Conservative MP also noted that the award was decided in conjunction with all political parties. The award is called the John McCain Prize, and it… Read more »
Article Link Two Venezuelan soldiers were killed by a land mine along the Colombian border. This incident also left nine Venezuelan soldiers injured. Venezuela was along the border in order to confront armed groups that have caused massive shifts in civilian population. Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino Lopez says that Venezuela will defend against these suspicious groups, while also maintaining human… Read more »
Article Link The Chilean navy says that they are closely monitoring 11 Chinese fishing ships that have popped up in their exclusive economic zone (EEZ). The Chinese fishing fleet of around 400 are scourging the waters off the Galapagos waters looking for squid. 11 of these boats are reported to be in the Chilean EEZ. Chile says that they are… Read more »
Article Link United States Vice President Kamala Harris announced on April 14th that she will travel to both Mexico and Guatemala to help better address the sudden increase in migration. The Biden administration has received brutal feedback concerning their “lack of attention” to this issue. Harris’ main goal during this trip will be to track down the sources of the… Read more »
Link to article- https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-argentina-poverty/argentine-town-bears-scars-of-poverty-as-pandemic-sharpens-economic-crisis-idUSKBN2C01B2 In the town of Manzanares, Argentina, on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, the effects of the pandemic weigh heavily upon the population as they are forced to cook with firewood and live without electricity, gas, or clean water. By the end of 2020, the poverty levels were up 6.5% from 35.5% to 42%. This rise is… Read more »
link to article As of April 2021, 351,000 Brazilians have died because of Covid-19. Brazil’s covid crisis is only getting worse. With packed hospitals and climbing cases, there’s another problem unfolding, food shortage. There are a estimated 19 million who have gone hungry during the pandemic. There are 117 million people in Brazil and half of the population lives with… Read more »