Central American asylum seekers made the news last July and August as many migrants traveled from as far away as Guatemala and Honduras to seek asylum in the United States. They are again making the news now as the number of asylum seekers applying for asylum in Mexico have dramatically increased as they recognize their limited options. This is in… Read more »
A recent Trump Administration policy, known as MPP, means immigrants seeking asylum in the United States have to remain in Mexico while they await their court hearings. In addition, the US has drastically reduced the number of refugees it will accept next year to just 18,000, the lowest in decades. As Will Grant reports, the two policies are complicating an… Read more »
BRASILIA (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump and his top diplomat said on Thursday they supported Brazil’s taking steps toward joining the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), although it is first backing accession by Argentina. Trump said in a Twitter post that a joint statement he released with Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro in March “makes absolutely clear that… Read more »
BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil may have backed out of hosting this year’s U.N. climate summit, but the country will still take a leading role in negotiating the mechanisms needed to implement the Paris Agreement, its top climate negotiator said on Tuesday. Shortly after right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro won election last year, he canceled Brazil’s plans to host the COP25 climate… Read more »
October 15, 2019 – Reuters BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil aims to conclude free trade agreements between the South American free trade bloc Mercosur and Singapore and South Korea by next year, as it also eyes deals with several other Asian countries, a Brazilian diplomat said on Tuesday. Mercosur will hold initial trade talks with Vietnam and Indonesia later this year,… Read more »
After more than 10 days of protests, President Lenin Moreno repealed the decree that removed the gasoline subsidies . The indigenous communities raised their voice against the government and after days of chaos in the main cities of Ecuador, especially in Quito, they succeeded in having President Moreno repeal the decree against which they fought. After a weekend of crisis in… Read more »
The brutal devastation of the Amazon has been highlighted recently by news sources all around the world. On September 24, 2019, Brazil’s president Jair Bolsonaro addressed the UN, and the Amazon was one of his main talking points. Bolsonaro insisted that the Amazon is not the heritage of humankind, nor is it the lungs of the planet. He further condemned… Read more »
President Jair Bolsonaro has insisted that the Brazilian areas of the Amazon rainforest are sovereign territory. Conservationists blame Mr Bolsonaro and his government for turning a blind eye to farmers and loggers clearing land in the Amazon, hastening deforestation. But in an address at the United Nations in New York, he struck a defiant note. He said it was a… Read more »
RIO DE JANEIRO/BRASILIA (Reuters) – The surge in fires in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest this year fueled a spike in young children being treated for breathing problems as smoke clouded the air throughout the region, according to a study released on Wednesday. Roughly 5,000 children aged nine or younger were treated each month in May and June in 36 areas within… Read more »
About 200 Bolivians, most of them members of an indigenous group from the Chiquitanía region, are taking part in a protest march to demand more action be taken to stop fires that have ravaged their area. They are urging President Evo Morales to declare a national emergency, after blazes destroyed large areas of forest as well as ranch land and… Read more »