Cuba plans to vote ‘yes’ to a socialist future for the generations to come. Cuban citizens are on their way to socialism that will update their constitution and stand as a vote for Cuban patriotism. A trigger to this vote came after US President Donald Trump claimed, “socialism is dying” and referred to Cuba as a “captive nation”. Cuban President,… Read more »
Havana, Cuba (CNN)Does socialism have a future? Millions of Cubans are about to tell the world “yes” — or so Havana hopes.Sunday, Cuba will vote on a new constitution. The document updates its Cold War-era predecessor, the original 1976 charter enacted under Fidel Castro, and the vote is widely seen as an important referendum on Cuba’s entire single-party, socialist system.After… Read more »
CNN)US national security adviser John Bolton has canceled his trip to South Korea next week, even as preparations ramp up for a second summit between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.”Ambassador Bolton has canceled his travel to the Republic of Korea to focus on events in Venezuela,” National Security Council spokesman Garrett Marquis said in a statement. Bolton… Read more »
(CNN)Venezuela’s self-declared interim president and opposition leader, Juan Guaido, is set to meet US Vice President Mike Pence in the Colombian capital Bogota Monday, following a weekend of deadly violence at the Venezuelan border.Fresh violence erupted after the Venezuelan military blocked food and supplies from crossing the border from Colombia. The Colombian foreign minister said 285 people were hurt, and… Read more »
Cúcuta, Colombia (CNN)The human toll of the Venezuelan crisis is evident in the women’s faces.They speak with pain in their voices and sadness in their eyes. At first reserved, they eventually open up and tell, through tears, how they came to be in a situation that would once have been unimaginable: selling their bodies to make ends meet. Here’s how… Read more »
Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman will be sentenced on June 25 and most likely sent to a maximum security prison in the U.S.. This would be the safest option due to the fact that he will not be able to escape through tunnels, as achieved before. The trial where his 10 convictions took place, New York’s eastern district, was where many… Read more »
The family of the missing pilot of the plane carrying the footballer Emiliano Sala have set up a fundraising page for donations to help restart a search for him. Sala’s body was recovered from the wreckage of the light aircraft in the Channel and formally identified earlier this week but David Ibbotson has not been found. A GoFundMe page has so far raised more than… Read more »
Rows of federal police in riot gear faced the former factory in the Mexican borderlands, as soldiers watched on from the gun turrets on a pair of Humvees. But the armed men weren’t preparing for an operation in the country’s bloody drug wars: they were guarding a group of 1,700 Central American migrants who were hoping to reach the US…. Read more »
When Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán is sentenced on 25 June, he will most likely be sent to US maximum-security prison from which there will be no more tunnels and no more escapes. Guzmán was convicted on all 10 charges after years of painstaking behind-the-scenes work by US Department of Justice prosecutors who cut deals with captive drug traffickers to get their man. El Chapo… Read more »
(CNN)Jesus Eugenio Ramos Rodriguez was at breakfast Saturday morning when he became the second journalist murdered in Mexico this year.Mexican authorities confirmed the death of Rodriguez on Saturday. They say he was in a restaurant early Saturday morning in the state of Tabasco when he was shot and killed.Rodriguez hosted a radio show that aired twice daily, and according to… Read more »