https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/1/14/haiti-displacement-surpasses-one-million-people-un Gang violence severely broke out over a year ago in Haiti, and since then over one million people have been displaced from their homes, over half of that being children. Due to the gang violence and lack of a stable government, services like healthcare have fallen and there are food shortages. Many people have been taken in by friends,… Read more »
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/2/10/petro-prompts-colombian-government-chaos-with-demand-for-resignations Two weeks ago Colombian President Gustavo Petro criticized the entire Colombian cabinet and demanded resignation from the whole cabinet, throwing the government into chaos. Thus far, the environment and labor ministers have resigned, as well as the two heads of DAPRE, a state agency that manages a lot of state funding, have resigned. With these resignitions Petro has made… Read more »
https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/brazil-says-us-ethanol-tariff-would-be-unreasonable-calls-sugar-talks-2025-02-13/ On Thursday, February 13th, Brazil’s Energy and Mining Minister, Alexandre Silveira spoke out against a potential tariff on Brazilian ethanol, calling it unreasonable. This comes after President Donald Trump has increased tariffs significantly since the beginning of his presidency. Historically, the tariff the US has on Brazilian ethanol was only 2.5%, while Brazil imposed an 18% tariff on US… 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 »