Link to Article Summary: El Salvador’s government has constructed a mega prison called the Terrorism Confinement Center (TCE) built to imprison gang members, with 2,000 more suspected, not known, gang members being recently sent to it. The prison is built to house up to 40,000 inmates and currently 57,000 of those imprisoned at the TCE and other prisons are still… Read more »
Link to Article Summary: Honduran president Xiomara Castro announced that Honduras will expand foreign engagements with China. Honduras is one of the last 14 remaining states to recognize Taiwan as an independent state, having lost 8 other countries that recognized them since 2016. China disallows its trade partners from recognizing Taiwan and has lent Honduras $300m in 2021 to build… Read more »
Link to Article Summary: Argentina has reached a state of hyperinflation not seen since 1991, with the rate becoming 102.5% in February of this year. Most citizens of Argentina are suffering from hyperinflation, as they see prices of local groceries change weekly and annual salaries already fell behind the cost of goods before the crisis had even started. The ruling… Read more »
In the Brazilian Amazon, the resumption of the Ferrograo railroad has sparked demand for proper consultation from indigenous groups who will be impacted by the railroad. They will also be fighting for reparations. The railroad will be 580 miles, stretching from the city of Sinop to the northern state of Para. This will cause massive amounts of deforestation. In fact,… Read more »
Honduras is seriously considering breaking off relations with Taiwan and taking financial aid from China due to increasingly unbearable debt. A lot of this debt is owed to Taiwan ($600 million). The Taiwan ministry strongly advises that Honduras do not take any deals with China, and produced this sufficiently summarizing quote, “We remind the Honduran government that it should not… Read more »
The former chief prospector was formally accused of fraud and concealing evidence by Colombia’s war crimes tribunal JEP for trying to hand over a former FARC leader on drug charges that were fabricated by the US authorities. The accused are former Prosecutor General Nestor Humberto Martinez and former International Affairs director Ana Fabiola Castro. President of the war crimes tribunal,… Read more »
Last month, Canada’s government introduced legislation to extend temporary exclusion of eligibility for medically assisted death, otherwise known as MAiD (medical assistance in dying), where people who are eligible for this treatment have a mental illness. In short, the laws allow for medically assisted suicide by physicians and nurses by injecting the person with a substance that kills them or… Read more »
Cuba has evidence that a sickness called “Havana Syndrome” wasn’t caused by a foreign enemy, and furthermore is upset with the United States for not acknowledging such evidence sooner. A worldwide US intelligence investigation regarding the syndrome was declassified recently, and confirmed Cuba’s evidence. Apparently the sickness had infected US diplomats and spies, which the US took personally and subsequently… Read more »