The Colombian leftist government will be spending $4.25 billion to buy some 1.5 million hectares (3.7 million acres) for poor farmers and displaced people. The government is doing this to increase agriculture output and for peace efforts. This is to end Colombia’s six-decade conflict, which has killed more than 450,000 people. The long-lasting conflict has involved rebel groups, the Colombian… Read more »
The president of Mexico wants to meet with Joe Bien over growing concerns about migration and drug trafficking. This comes after a large number of migrants moved through Mexico causing the closure of a few U.S.- Mexico borders. Also, about 60 train runs of Mexico’s largest railway company because so many migrants hopped on them trying to get across the… Read more »
Many presidential candidates in Ecuador have pledged to use their military forces to halt the spread of drugs in their ports. These drug exports have mostly been cocaine which has been smuggled through mainly bananas with Ecuador being the world’s biggest banana exporter moving 6,500 containers of bananas each week. Cocaine has also been found with tuna, hollowed-out pineapples, and… Read more »
Hardeep Singh Nijjar who was an outspoken leader of the Khalistan movement was murdered by masked men in Canada. The Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau claimed he has credible information linking India to the killing of Hardeep Singh Nijjar. Because of these allegations from Canada India was outraged. They called these allegations “absurd and motivated”. Following this India and Canada… Read more »
Argentina’s lower house on September 19th passed a government-backed bill that has lowered taxes on their higher income earners. By doing this the government would lose about 1 trillion pesos ($2.8 billion USD). Experts believe that they are doing this to ease pressure on key voters during their inflation crisis. If this bill were to become a law 800,000 people… Read more »
The countries of Uruguay and Argentina used to be in tandem with their economies. However recently Uruguay has started to break away from one of its biggest traders in Argentina, which is now Uruguay’s 4th biggest trader, and now China, Brazil, and the European Union are Uruguay’s biggest traders. Argentina used to suffer like Uruguay, but now because of this… Read more »