Venezuela’s opposition leader, Juan Guaido, announced his intentions for the ‘largest march in Venezuela’s history’ to take place on May 1 to show opposition to the presidency of Nicolas Maduro. Although the United States and most Western countries consider Guaido Venezuela’s legitimate leader, President Maduro is still backed by China, Russia, Turkey, Iran, and Venezuela’s state institutions (i.e. its military)…. Read more »
The refugee crisis simulation was a completely new experience for me. I have never done a simulation, while many of my classmates participate in Model UN or public speaking and therefore were more comfortable with the format/speaking during the simulation. Although my role was not to speak in front of the class, I tried to give as much input as… Read more »
The Trump administration on Wednesday opened the door for lawsuits against foreign firms operating on properties Cuba seized from Americans after the 1959 revolution. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said he will not renew a bar on litigation that has been in place for two decades, meaning that lawsuits can be filed starting on May 2 when the current suspension expires…. Read more »
Jinotepe, Nicaragua – Watching nervously for paramilitaries on motorcycles that stalked the street outside her door, Juana Lesage said she has lived “months of terror” since all three of her sons were imprisoned in Nicaragua‘s violent crackdown last year on anti-government protests. Since her sons lost their jobs, Lesage’s family has plunged into poverty, her carpenter husband unable to find work in Nicaragua’s crippled… Read more »
United States-backed Venezuelan opposition leaderJuan Guaido on Friday called on supporters to take to the streets on May 1 for what he called “the largest march in the history” of the South American country to keep the pressure on President Nicolas Maduro to leave power. Guaido, the head of the opposition-controlled National Assembly – who in January invoked the constitution to declare himself… Read more »
Violence in Mexico has hit new heights in the first quarter of 2019, with 8,493 murders recorded from January to March, according to official figures. The Executive Secretariat of the Public Security National System revealed that the number represents a 9.6 percent rise on the same period in 2018. Last year was considered the most violent in Mexico’s history, with more than… Read more »
On Monday, a top Republican said of Trump’s plan to cut aid to Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala, “it would make the situation worse, not better”. Despite efforts from Mexico’s President, Andres Obrador, to negotiate with Trump to foster economic development in the region, known as the Northern Triangle, Congress has decided to cut aid over migration issues. Republicans and… Read more »
San Salvador – When Saskia ter Laag visited the spot where Salvadoran soldiers shot her brother, Hans, while he reported on El Salvador‘s civil war 37 years ago, she felt peace, but not closure. In 1982, the Salvadoran military ambushed and killed four Dutch journalists – Koos Koster, Jan Kuiper, Joop Willemsen, and Hans ter Laag – alongside the Salvadoran rebel fighters… Read more »
A top Republican on the US House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee said on Monday that US President Donald Trump‘s plan to cut aid to three Central American countries – Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador – would make the situation there worse, not better. Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obradorhas tried to persuade Trump to address the problem by fostering economic development in Central America. But the… Read more »
Bogota – Colombia‘s lower house has overwhelmingly rejected President Ivan Duque‘s suggested modifications to the country’s transitional justice system – the latest in a series of congressional defeats for the president. Duque asked legislators in March to review six parts of the law that regulates the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) tribunal. The special tribunal was created as part of a 2016 peace… Read more »
