https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/colombian-presidential-election-looms-fears-grow-about-fate-historic-peace-n872936 When Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos announced a number of emergency decrees last month in a bid to salvage a landmark ceasefire agreement with leftist guerrillas, the fragility of the country’s truce was laid bare. The measures, forced through Congress following a surge in drug trafficking-related violence and allegations of embezzlement of peace funds, came almost eighteen months after… Read more »
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-44169484 They asked forgiveness from victims and the Church for their “grave errors and omissions”. It was not immediately clear whether the Pope had accepted the resignations. He had been criticised in Chile for his decision to ordain a bishop who is accused of covering up sexual abuse committed by a priest. He said in January that he felt “pain… Read more »
As a large caravan of Central American migrants approached the northern border of Mexico last month, the Trump administration launched a campaign to turn back the group. Unwelcoming statements were issued by American officials, including Kirstjen Nielsen, the secretary of homeland security, who told migrants who intended to apply for asylum in the United States that they “should” instead seek… Read more »
https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/16/americas/venezuela-election-sunday/index.html Venezuelans will head to the polls Sunday to elect a new president. The winner will inherit a country in the middle of a deep economic and social crisis, with millions suering food and medicine shortages, hyperinflation and growing insecurity. An estimated 1.6 million people have fled the country due to the current situation between 2015 and 2017 according to… Read more »
https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/09/americas/canada-asylum-seekers-nigerians/index.html In the past few months the Royal Canadian Mounted Police have witnessed a growing number of asylum seekers entering their borders. This comes after the wave of Mexican immigrants were left at a standoff with the U.S. Border Security. This also comes a year after the wave of Haitian immigrants who fled the U.S. into Canada in order to… Read more »
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/may/02/sao-paolo-fire-building-collapse-squatting-housing-crisis It took Adriana dos Santos and her six children 20 minutes to scramble to safety, feeling their way down seven dark flights of stairs as the flames spread around them. An hour later, the 24-story building where they’d been living in downtown São Paulo collapsed, as firefighters attempted to rescue a man who’d reportedly re-entered the building to save… Read more »
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/may/03/cuentalo-latin-american-women-rally-around-sexual-violence-hashtag It began as a call to arms to women in Spain after last week’s incendiary acquittal of five men on rape charges in Pamplona. “We must tell of the aggressions, the violations, compañeras,” the journalist Cristina Fallarás tweeted, urging her followers to speak out over sexual violence using the hashtag #Cuéntalo. But across the Atlantic the message was also… Read more »
From the perspective of the White House, the United States had negotiated a preliminary deal with Brazil, as well as Argentina and Australia, to exempt the countries from punitive steel and aluminum tariffs. From the perspective of Brazil, it was issued an ultimatum. Brazil accused the Trump administration on Wednesday of breaking off negotiations over the tariffs last week and… Read more »
https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/30/politics/tariff-deadline-delay/index.html — President Donald Trump on Monday approved another month of relief from steel and aluminum taris for key allies, including the European Union, Canada and Mexico. Facing a midnight deadline to prolong the exemptions or allow imports of steel and aluminum from those countries to be taxed at 25% and 10%, respectively, Trump pushed the deadline another month —… Read more »
https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/29/americas/migrant-caravan-us-border-crossing/index.html Over the past two weeks, dozens of Central American migrants have traveled to the US-Mexico Border and are now being denied access. These families left their homes and lives in Central America, most come from Tijuana, in order to escape persecution and secure safety for their loved ones. The migrants continue to stand outside the border entry until all… Read more »
