Former President of Venezuela, Alejandro Toledo is a visiting scholar at Stanford where he is researching for a his planned book on education in Latin America. The subject is important to Toledo because he rose from poor upbringing to acclaimed academic and ultimately President of the country. However, his revered status could come crumbling down if the international arrest warrant for… Read more »
President Donald Trump opened the doors of the White House Wednesday to Liliana Tintori, the wife of the most visible faces of the Venezuelan opposition, Leopoldo Lopez. In a later tweet President Trump called for Lopez’s immediate release and openly confronted the socialist government of Nicolas Maduro by calling him a “political prisoner.” Lopez is serving a 14-year sentence in… Read more »
The vice-president of Venezuela has accused the US of “imperialist aggression” after it slapped sanctions on him for allegedly trafficking drugs. Tareck El Aissami was described by the US treasury as a drug “kingpin” who worked with traffickers in Mexico and Colombia to ship drugs to America. Hitting back, he accused the US of “defamatory aggression”. Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro… Read more »
A high court judge in Brazil has overturned a ruling that banned the media from publishing information about blackmail attempts against President Michel Temer’s wife. Two leading newspapers had been forced to remove reports of messages exchanged between Marcela Temer and a man convicted of hacking her mobile phone. The hacker demanded money for withholding information. The judge said the… Read more »
Peruvian authorities moved quickly to detain a former president tied to a region-wide graft scandal, offering a $30,000 (£24,000) reward for his capture and alerting Interpol that he may be in the U.S. or Israel. Peru’s government said Friday that it has information that Alejandro Toledo is in San Francisco. Toledo, who governed Peru from 2001 to 2006, is a… Read more »
A tweet seems to says it all. “Do you believe it? The Obama Administration agreed to take in thousands of illegal immigrants from Australia! Why? I will study this dumb deal!” But is this tweet accurate? Australia’s Prime Minister Turnball seems not to be sure. What is this deal that President Trump is referencing? It is an November 2016 one-time agreement… Read more »
President Donald Trump has signed an executive order that banned travel into the United States for citizens from these seven countries for 90 days: Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen. The restrictions were part of wide ranging immigration controls that also suspended refugee arrivals. It appears that existing restrictions in place during the Obama administration informed Mr Trump’s… Read more »
A phone call between US President Donald Trump and Australian PM Malcolm Turnbull has called into question a refugee resettlement deal. The Washington Post reported Mr Trump called the conversation “the worst by far” of his calls with world leaders that day, and cut it short. Mr Trump later tweeted that he would “study this dumb deal”. Struck with the… Read more »
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has broken his promise to change the country’s voting system. The commitment to get rid of Canada’s federal first-past-the-post electoral system was one of his primary election promises. Opposition parties called the move “cynical and jaded”. Trudeau’s Liberal government said the move was made because Canadians were undecided about what kind of voting system they… Read more »
El Salvador, one of the world’s deadliest countries, has recorded a rare day without a single homicide. National Civil Police commissioner Howard Cotto said at a news conference on Thursday that no murders were reported the previous day in the gang-plagued Central American nation. The last time the country went a full day without any killings was January 22, 2015, according… Read more »