Article: https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/jamaica-send-two-dozen-security-personnel-haiti-bolster-mission-2024-09-10/ In order to address the humanitarian crisis in Haiti in the wake of the assassination of their president in 2021, Jovenel Moïse, the U.N. has backed a Kenya-led mission to send military and police personnel to Haiti to fight gang control and facilitate the organization of a democratic election. This international assistance was requested in 2022. Kenya pledged… Read more »
Article: https://latinamericanpost.com/americas/venezuelas-tren-de-aragua-expands-its-deadly-grip-to-the-u-s/ A gang birthed from Venezuela’s Tocorón prison, the Tren de Aragua have gone beyond expanding throughout Latin America and now have begun to infiltrate the U.S. Gang members, empowered by the mismanagement of the prisons and general unrest throughout Venezuela, were able to follow migration routes to Colombia, Peru, Chile and Ecuador — causing a demonstrable rise in… Read more »
Article: https://apnews.com/article/venezuela-maduro-us-economic-sanctions-oil-licenses-3c7f4ec239d86ecf255d9ec4b4ac6ad9 Opponents to the rule of the authoritarian president of Venezuela, Nicolàs Maduro, are calling for the U.S. to cancel licenses for U.S. oil companies (particularly Chevron) to do business with state-owned oil company, PDVSA, in order to sanction Maduro’s regime. In 2019, as a response to Maduro’s corrupt practices, the U.S. made it illegal for U.S. companies to… Read more »
