A US Navy Hospital docked off the coast of Colombia is now providing free medical care to Venezuelan refugees. Colombia is currently hosting over 3 million Venezuelan refugees and this mass exodus seems to have no end in sight. In my opinion, the United States and China lending helping hands in the recent months is more of a stunt to… Read more »
A US navy hospital ship moored off Colombia has started giving free medical care to Venezuelan refugees, in a move likely to rile officials in Caracas who deny the existence of a humanitarian crisis in their own country – and have long been suspicious of the close relationship between Colombia and the US. As well as treating Colombians, US medical teams aboard… Read more »
The US Justice Department is preparing charges against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, reports in the US say. The reports came as a filing in a separate court case hinted that charges were being prepared. Justice officials said the filing was made in error. Mr Assange fled to Ecuador’s London embassy in 2012 to avoid extradition to Sweden over sex assault… Read more »
Hundreds of migrants from a caravan of Central Americans were stalled at the U.S.-Mexico border on Saturday, where a handful said they welcomed recent Mexican offers of employment in the face of a hostile U.S. reception. The Mexican government last week reiterated job offers to the migrants, saying that those who obtained legal status could occupy thousands of vacancies, most… Read more »
President Donald Trump may be touting his trade deal with Canada and Mexico as a victory, but emerging complaints from liberals and conservatives are threatening to sink the agreement in Congress. Democrats, whose votes Trump needs to pass the deal in the House, say they want to see stronger protections against pollution and climate change, improved labor standards in Mexico… Read more »
When there is any situation going on in the world, countries look to the United States to provide guidance. US involvement in South America, specifically Venezuela is working against these nations. During this Midterm season, the President has been using fear mongering as a major tactic. The migrant caravan, consisting of Venezuelans and others, is in a way the fault… Read more »
US President Donald Trump will take his first major trip to South America later this week to advocate for stronger economic ties in the region. However, the leaders he meets are are likely to just “smile and nod” with the massively unpopular US leader and achieve little in the way of new policies. The president will attend the Summit of the Americas in Lima, Peru,… Read more »
President Donald Trump vowed to end the right of citizenship to children born in the United States to non-citizens and illegal immigrants in his latest bid to dramatically reshape immigration policies just days before the midterm elections. Trump would target the citizenship right through an executive order, he told news website Axios in an interview published on Tuesday, a move… Read more »
Trump told journalists at the White House that a group of several thousand migrants attempting to walk from Central America through Mexico had thrown rocks “viciously and violently” at Mexican police. “We’re not going to put up with that. They want to throw rocks at our military, our military fights back,” he said. “I told them (troops) consider it (a rock) a rifle…. Read more »
Most of the migrants are from Honduras, in Central America. They say they left their home country because they live in fear of Honduras’s violent gangs or to seek better employment opportunities. The caravan left San Pedro Sula, in eastern Honduras, on 13 October. Many of the migrants are exhausted after having travelled 1,600km (1,000 miles) in less than a… Read more »