Cuban- Americans are actually a shockingly large lobbying force in the country, especially in Florida. Even Republican Senator Marco Rubio is of Cuban descent. And their impact has serious consequences of the international relations between the US and Cuba. The US has many vested interests in Cuba, dating back to the Monroe Doctrine and Spanish-American war. Because of the US’… Read more »
One of the cons of today’s hyper-globalized, super connected world is that resources across the world can be exploited by just about any other nation, seeking to take advantage of weak government protections for their own benefit. With China’s rapdily industrializing economy causing more and more room for a middle class with extra income, luxury commodities once restricted to the… Read more »
Havana (CNN)Cuba is “prepared” for the possibility of Donald Trump’s reelection and the continuation of crushing US sanctions against the island, according to Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel.The Cuban president’s challenge to the Trump administration came during a tour of central Cuba last week, where CNN was given rare access to the Cuban head of state. The focus of the trip… Read more »
The body of a second butterfly conservationist and activist has been found in Mexico, authorities said.Raúl Hernández Romero, a part-time guide and conservationist at Mexico’s largest monarch butterfly reserve, was discovered dead Friday in the Mexican state of Michoacán, local authorities said in a statement released Saturday.He was found with “blunt blows on different parts of the body and a head injury,… Read more »
The brutal killing and mutilation of a 25-year-old woman in Mexico has sparked outrage and prompted calls for a change in the country’s law, after several media outlets published a leaked photograph of the victim’s disfigured body on their front pages.Authorities announced Sunday that police officers arrived at a home in Mexico City over the weekend to find Ingrid Escamilla lifeless, with her body… Read more »
The production of chicken to be sold in UK supermarkets, restaurants and fast-food chains is destroying wildlife-rich forests in South America, Greenpeace investigators claim. Swathes of forest are bulldozed each year to grow soya, which is used to feed poultry in the UK and the rest of the world, a report by the charity says. The land used partly includes the world’s most biodiverse savannah, the Brazilian Cerrado…. Read more »
As Venezuela enters its third full year in default, its obligations have become something of an afterthought to even its biggest creditors. Worth just pennies on the dollar, tens of billions in bonds routinely go days at a time without trading. Sanctions bar U.S. investors from buying them and make the prospect of a full-scale restructuring all but impossible. And… Read more »
Bogota, Colombia – Whenever a businessperson in Hong Kong or mainland China wants to impress a client over dinner, shark fin soup is likely to be on the menu. The demand for shark fins on the other side of the world is at the heart of a raging debate in Colombia over efforts to stop the controversial practice of shark finning – removing the fins… Read more »
Hippopotamuses imported by drug lord and wild-animal aficionado Pablo Escobar were abandoned when his zoo was dismantled after his death in 1993 and have since gone wild – literally. His other outsized African animals such as rhinos and giraffes were given new homes, but four hippos were left to their own devices. Want to read more articles? Email*Sign up I’d like… Read more »
BOGOTA — Illegal armed groups are still recruiting children in Colombia, subjecting them to sexual abuse and using them as cannon fodder in armed conflict, humanitarian groups said on Thursday. “In Colombia the recruiting and use of minors is a common and systemic practice which changes to meet the new demands of the armed conflict,” said Olga Silva of Humanidad… Read more »