Link to my Article: https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate-energy/hurricane-melissa-hits-cuba-hours-after-devastating-jamaica-2025-10-29/ On October 29, 2025, Hurricane Melissa made landfall on the southern coast of eastern Cuba with maximum sustained winds of 120 mph, just hours after hammering Jamaica as one of the strongest ever storms on record there. Authorities in Cuba evacuated around 735,000 people from eastern provinces ahead of the storm’s arrival. In Jamaica’s southwestern… Read more »
Link to my Article: https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/least-20-dead-operation-against-organized-crime-brazils-rio-2025-10-28/ On October 28, 2025, the state government of Rio de Janeiro announced that at least 20 people, including two police officers, were killed during a massive operation against organized crime in the favela complexes of Complexo do Alemao and Complexo da Penha in the city’s outskirts. The operation, described as the largest ever targeting the… Read more »
Link to my article: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-military-strikes-suspected-drug-vessels-eastern-pacific-2025-10-28/ On October 28, 2025, the United States Department of Defense reported that U.S. forces executed strikes on four vessels in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing 14 alleged drug traffickers and leaving one survivor. The ships were described as “known by our intelligence apparatus, transtiting along known narco-trafficking routes, and carrying narcotics,” acording to U.S. Defense… Read more »
Link to my Article: https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/costa-rica-start-building-massive-el-salvador-inspired-prison-2025-08-14/ This year Costa Rica is moving ahead with plans to build a new maximum-security prison, called the Center for High Containment of Organized Crime (CACCO), inspired by El Salvador’s controversial mega-prison. The prison will be designed to hold 5,100 inmates, increasing Costa Rica’s prison capacity by 40 percent. Right now, prisons in Costa Rica are… Read more »
Link to my article: https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/canada-remove-many-retaliatory-tariffs-us-carney-says-2025-08-22/ On August 22, 2025, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney announced that Canada would remove many retaliatory tariffs on U.S. goods, planning to restart stalled trade talks and strengthen the U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade agreement (USMCA). While tariffs on U.S autos, steel, and aluminum remain in place, carney emphasized that the move reflects Canada’s commitment to the (USMCA)… Read more »
Link to my Article: https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/us-impose-visa-restrictions-officials-alleging-ties-cuban-labor-program-2025-08-13/ The U.S. Department of State, led by secretary Marco Rubio, is imposing visa restriction and revoking visas of government officials from several countries including Brazil, Cuba, Africa, and Grenada; who the U.S. claims are linked to Cuba’s practice of sending medical staff to other countries. The U.S. claims Cuba uses the program to profit from… Read more »
Link to my article: https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/brazils-bolsonaro-sentenced-27-years-after-landmark-coup-plot-conviction-2025-09-12/ The former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro was sentenced to 27 years and 3 months in prison convicted of plotting a coup to keep him in power, after he lost the 2022 presidential election. The decision was made by the Brazilian supreme court, 4 out of the 5 judges found him guilty of: taking part in… Read more »
