Link to article: https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/canada-imposes-sanctions-14-venezuelan-officials-2025-01-10/ This past Friday (January 10th), Canada imposed sanctions on 14 current or former Venezuelan senior government officials. They claimed the individuals were supporting violations to human rights in Venezuela. The sanctions align with sanctions imposed by Canadian allies such as the UK and the US. They aim to communicate a message of “solidarity with the Venezuelan… Read more »
Link to article: https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/mexicos-sheinbaum-lays-out-roadmap-make-country-an-economic-powerhouse-2025-01-13/ The Mexican government has unfolded a plan that aims to deter Chinese imports. This plan was made in response to past and future American President Donald Trump’s comments alleging Mexico to be a back door to Chinese goods entering America. When presenting this plan to the Mexican people, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum also made an effort… Read more »
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-01-10/brazil-venezuela-border-to-be-closed-through-jan-13-brazil-govt-says The recent border closure between Brazil and Venezuela stems from a prolonged electoral dispute in Venezuela, culminating in the re-inauguration of President Nicolas Maduro. Brazil, under President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, has withheld recognition of Maduro’s victory, reflecting a significant diplomatic rift. The situation escalated when Venezuela unilaterally decided to close the shared border shortly after Maduro’s swearing-in,… Read more »
December 16th, 2024 With the induction of Donald Trump into America’s office, comes a promise of mass deportation of illegal immigrants in the US to their home countries. No one truly knows if this is fully possible, but it scares every single Latin immigrant within our society- everything they have worked so hard for reversed in such short order. Unauthorized… Read more »
https://www.euronews.com/2025/01/12/venezuelas-consulate-in-lisbon-targeted-with-explosive-device Saturday, January 11th at about 10pm, a molotov cocktail was thrown at the wall of the consulate of Venezuela building by an unidentified person. No one was injured. Lisbon is reporting that it was more of a symbolic act as the bomb was directed at the building and not a specific person. This is following the disputed election of… Read more »
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/1/5/why-is-honduras-threatening-to-expel-us-troops Donald Trump has threatened to deport thousands of undocumented Honduran immigrants from the US. Honduran President, Xiomara Castro, has thus threatened to expel US troops from Honduras, which would render the US military facilities in Honduras pretty much useless. Moreover, Castro criticized the facilities even being on Honduran soil in the first place, as it was originally intended to… Read more »
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c2ld49lqq5qo Over Friday, January third and Saturday, January fourth, 150 Guatemalan soldiers arrived in Haiti as part of an effort to restore peace to Haiti due to gang violence. Since the assassination of the Haitian president in 2021 the country has been in shambles because of the lack of government control and therefore a rapidly weakening economy which has made… Read more »
Link to article: https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/canada-considers-retaliatory-tariffs-orange-juice-other-us-goods-paper-says-2025-01-09/ President-elect Donald Trump vowed that starting his first day in office, he would be imposing extremely high tariffs on all products from Mexico and Canada. This is because of the flow of migrants and fentanyl coming from both borders. Following this promise, Canadian governments have sprung into action increasing border monitoring and meeting with Trump officials…. Read more »
