https://abcnews.go.com/International/canada-india-relations-strain-killing-sikh-separatist-leader/story?id=10337 Recently there has been a huge diplomatic dispute between Canada and India over the death of a Sikh separatist leader near Vancouver. In response the countries have expelled one of the other’s diplomats and India has suspended visa processing for Canadian citizens. Ties between the two countries are left strained after Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said publicly that… Read more »
Hardeep Singh Nijjar who was an outspoken leader of the Khalistan movement was murdered by masked men in Canada. The Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau claimed he has credible information linking India to the killing of Hardeep Singh Nijjar. Because of these allegations from Canada India was outraged. They called these allegations “absurd and motivated”. Following this India and Canada… Read more »
Argentina’s lower house on September 19th passed a government-backed bill that has lowered taxes on their higher income earners. By doing this the government would lose about 1 trillion pesos ($2.8 billion USD). Experts believe that they are doing this to ease pressure on key voters during their inflation crisis. If this bill were to become a law 800,000 people… Read more »
The countries of Uruguay and Argentina used to be in tandem with their economies. However recently Uruguay has started to break away from one of its biggest traders in Argentina, which is now Uruguay’s 4th biggest trader, and now China, Brazil, and the European Union are Uruguay’s biggest traders. Argentina used to suffer like Uruguay, but now because of this… Read more »
Link to article: https://apnews.com/article/el-salvador-nayib-bukele-gangs-989d6e3ec5e25449e167c7790c795823 El Salvador has arrested over 72,000 people during their crackdown on gang activity, raising eyebrows all around the world. Until recently, El Salvador was known as the “death capital” due to having the highest rate of violence on Earth; at a recorded 6,656 homicides. The amount of homicides since the new policies were put in place… Read more »
Link to article: https://apnews.com/article/biden-immigration-border-migrant-venezuela-b914be14aaeef14eb01bd10ee23067f4 An estimated 472,000 Venezuelans have arrived in America, and the Biden administration has issued them temporary legal status in order for them to be able to work. There have been two starkly different responses to this; Democrats are pleased, as they have been pushing for more aid to be given to those seeking asylum. Republicans on… Read more »
Link to article: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-says-if-elected-again-he-will-send-troops-us-mexico-border-2023-09-20/ Former president Donald Trump has announced that if he is reelected for the presidency, he will move thousands of troops currently stationed overseas to the US-Mexico border. His plans for his updated version of the border policies include eliminating all open border measures put in place by the Biden administration in order to stop the “invasion”… Read more »
https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/china-influence-latin-america-argentina-brazil-venezuela-security-energy-bri Over the last twenty years, China has established strong security and commercial relations with multiple countries in Latin America, specifically Brazil and Venezuela. Nevertheless, the US is concerned about the Chinese government’s expanding influence on the Southern part of the Americas. Recently China’s role in Latin and South America has grown exponentially fast. In 2000 less than 2% of… Read more »
Link to Article: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/6/3/south-america-a-hard-road-to-unity Twelve South American countries came together in Brazil in an attempt to build relations for a continental unification. These efforts were led by Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Despite diverse ideologies between the countries Lula hoped to rebuild the UNASUR, the union of South American Nations. He believes that South American leaders should put… Read more »
