In my first article I read, “These are the 3 risks that the migrants caravan has faced” is connected to my last regional report on the caravan. I wanted to research more about this because I’m very interested in the wellbeing of these people. One of the first risks they talk about the immigrants facing is health problems. They are… Read more »
The Foundation for Press Freedom headed by the coordinator of Defense and Attention to Journalists at FLIP, Luisa Fernanda Isaza, informed El Heraldo newspaper that “in the first 10 months of 2018, 240 journalists have been threatened.“ This was made known during the celebration of the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists decreed by Unesco. This figure is higher than… Read more »
Mothers with their children, older adults, and young people are part of the Honduran migrant’s caravan. The caravan crosses Mexico to reach the US and fulfill a dream: having a better quality of life. Leer en español: No están solos: así se solidariza Latinoamérica con las migraciones While the Central Americans advance in the middle of the sun and the rain,… Read more »
The Honduran and Salvadoran caravan of migrants, according to the UN Agency for Refugees (UNHCR), is divided into five groups totaling 16,000 people. Among children, adults, youth and seniors, of which close to 3,000 have already made it to the US-Mexico border, have had to face in their long walk a series of risks ranging from health problems, xenophobia, being deported, to a… Read more »
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman was “the boss” of Mexico’s Sinaloa Cartel, a witness told jurors in the accused Mexican drug lord’s trial in Brooklyn federal court on Monday, contradicting the claim by Guzman’s lawyers that his dominance of the drug trade was a myth. Miguel Angel Martinez, who described himself as a former manager in the… Read more »
In my first article, “Central American migrants trek north to seek a better life,” it talked about the hardships and struggles that the traveling caravan is facing. These people are walking over 25 miles a day. That is absolutely insane. They are traveling with most of their family that ranges in age. If there is a physical boundary like a… Read more »
SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Brazilian technology firm Movile on Tuesday said it had raised $500 million of fresh funds for its iFood app, aimed at making it one of the world’s biggest players in the meals delivery market. The money was raised among iFood’s current investors, including South African media group Naspers, which owns Movile, and Brazilian billionaire Jorge Paulo… Read more »
Canada became the second country in the world to legalize marijuana. Now its inhabitants can cultivate it, possess it and consume it recreationally. In this context, it is worth looking at the success of this measure in Uruguay, the first country to legalize recreational marijuana, as well as in Colorado, United States. Leer en español: Así le ha ido a Uruguay… Read more »
MEXICO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – A bill passed this week in Mexico’s Senate granting same-sex couples equal social security benefits as heterosexuals now moves to the Chamber of Deputies, where advocates expect it will be voted into law. The vote in the country’s recently sworn-in upper house was unanimous. The amendment also included motions granting gay and lesbian couples the right… Read more »
The fearful look on the face of a Central American man cradling a baby in his arms as he scrambled away from a wall of Mexican police in riot gear quickly became one of the defining images taken by Reuters photographers of the migrant caravan that started entering Mexico on Oct. 19. Hundreds of migrants, mostly from Honduras, rushed through… Read more »