Link to Article: Canada’s economy likely gains momentum as Omicron wanes | Reuters The Canadian economy is starting to have gains now that COVID restrictions are being lifted. Canada had for the first time since the beginning of the pandemic a quarter where their GDP was higher than it was at the beginning of the pandemic. This is occurring at… Read more »
Link to Article: Mexico inflation descent to be long, slow process, board member says | Reuters The Mexican Central Bank has recently said that the inflation of the Mexican Peso is going to be a long descent and will likely not be down until 2024. Mexico is trying to lower their inflation to be below 3%. The current rate of… Read more »
Link to Article: Brazil police say Bolsonaro committed no crime in interference probe | Reuters The Brazilian president Bolsonaro has been cleared of possible crimes related to messing with police affairs. Back in 2020 Bolsonaro replaced the director general of the Brazilian police. This happened at the same time that one of Bolsonaro’s sons was under investigation by the police…. Read more »
Link to Article: A family’s unrelenting fight to end Argentina’s femicide crisis | Women News | Al Jazeera Femicide is an epidemic that is occurring all across Argentina. Femicide is the killing of females due to their gender. It is estimated that a woman dies from femicide every thirty hours in Argentina. One family whose daughter died in 2016 in… Read more »
Link to Article: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/3/7/boat-carrying-300-haitian-migrants-collapses-near-florida-coast A boat that had over 300 migrants full of migrants from Haiti capsized off the coast of Florida. There have been no deaths reported. Many United States agencies believe that there was some manner of human smuggling happening. This is the second time this year that an unseaworthy boat has capsized when trying to bring Haitian… Read more »
Link to Article: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/3/3/abandons-its-people-guatemalas-malnutrition-crisis-deepens Guatemala is having a malnutrition crisis. It is estimated that half of all children under five are malnourished. This is in part due to over fifty percent of the country living in poverty. Many politicians in Guatemala run for office and say that they will fix the issues of malnutrition but they do not. The government… Read more »
Link to Article: https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/canada-says-usmca-panel-finds-us-solar-tariffs-violate-trade-pact-2022-02-15/ The United States has a tariff on importing solar panels. Canada and Mexico were not excluded from this and thus their solar panels would be tariffed. This tariff was put in place by former United States President Donald Trump with Section 201 which were safeguard tariffs on solar panels and cells. Canada and Mexico are looking… Read more »
Link to Article: https://www.reuters.com/world/bolsonaro-says-brazil-keen-russian-nuclear-reactors-no-mention-ukraine-2022-02-16/ The Brazilian President Bolsonaro spoke with Russian President Putin in Moscow regarding the conflict in Ukraine. Bolsonaro said “I told Putin that Brazil supports any country that seeks peace and that’s his intention”. Brazil also says that they believe that Russian troops are being withdrawn from the border which differs with what the United States has… Read more »
Link to Article: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russian-pullout-meets-uk-scepticism-ukraine-defence-website-still-hacked-2022-02-16/ Russia has not pulled back any troops that they said they would. The United States and other NATO allies have been watching the situation closely and their intelligence says that they cannot confirm that Russia removed the troops they said they would. Ukraine has also been hit by many cyber attacks. These attacks have not been… Read more »