The More Doctors program serves more than 3,600 cities all over Brazil, especially in remote and poor areas. (Peoples Dispatch) “There’s something about the Brazilian people that they open the doors to all foreigners and ...
“Asking to be considered a refugee & applying for status isn’t a crime,” says Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez after U.S. Border agents fire tear gas into Mexico. (Common Dreams) As legal experts and human rights advocates ...
Citizen Truth reporter Jenna Mulligan, who is stationed in Mexico, traveled to meet and interview the migrant caravan first-hand as it arrived in Mexico City. This is the first of her reports. After spending five ...
Thanks to an overnight bus ride by Citizen Truth reporter Jenna Mulligan, Citizen Truth is reporting live from Mexico City where the migrant caravan carrying thousands of migrants from Central America began to arrive yesterday ...
Members of a migrant caravan heading to the U.S. filed a lawsuit suing for their right to declare asylum in the U.S. Six migrants in the caravan traveling from Honduras to the U.S.-Mexico border filed ...
Despite all the vitriol surrounding immigration policy, the reasons behind the crisis in Central America are rarely examined in depth by mainstream media outlets. This article will provide a brief, and by no means exhaustive, ...
Twenty percent of crops harvested in Brazil between 2013 and 2015 were not safe for human consumption because of a high concentration of pesticides. A Brazilian study published in the journal Chemosphere links colon cancer ...
What does a win for the highly-controversial Jair Bolsonaro mean for Brazil, the world’s fourth-largest democracy? On Sunday, Jair Bolsonaro, often dubbed as Donald Trump of Brazil, won the runoff election by winning 55.1 percent ...
The migrant caravan, which has been met with threats from Donald Trump, is the result of poverty, growing crime and repression in Honduras. The US has played a key role in propping up the government ...
Nieto’s plan provides temporary ID cards and work permits, housing in local hotels, and medical care for all migrants. It also offers schooling for all children. Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto has offered work permits ...
An interview and discussion of the extreme circumstances contributing to the Central American migration/refugee crisis. Robin Schmid provides firsthand insight into the brutal realities of legal impunity, violence against women and sexual assault she has ...
Despite having massive oil reserves, Venezuela’s economy is still stuck in a downfall. Since 2014, the economy of Venezuela has been in a free-fall. The once vibrant economy that was also once the largest in ...
How did the migrant caravan approaching the U.S. snowball in size from several hundred to more than 7,000? More than 7,000 migrants from Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala grouped together this week to travel toward ...
A Guatemalan border town held several thousand migrants by October 18, a portion of whom decided to continue forward and crossed illegally into Mexico on Thursday night. A caravan of an estimated 5,000 Central American ...
Jair Bolsonaro easily won the first round of Brazil’s presidential election. His hardline, pro-military stance has endeared some and worried others – earning him the nickname Brazilian Trump. Last Sunday, Brazilian right-wing politician Jair Bolsonaro, ...
Drug influence and corruption have spread across several local and regional Mexican police authorities, forcing the government to disband entire agencies. The Mexican government has deployed the military to take over police functions in the ...
A ten-month investigation by World Animal Protection revealed a harrowing illegal wildlife trade where Jaguars are killed for medicine in Suriname. The big cats are hunted, killed and boiled down into a paste then exported ...
Families and relatives of the disappeared students marched on the anniversary from the Angel of Independence to the Zócalo square to demand justice. (NewsClick) September 26, 2018, was the fourth anniversary of the tragic night of ...
Following stiff sanctions on four close aides of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, President Donald Trump suggested the Venezuelan military could easily topple their president if they wanted. Trump made it clear last Tuesday that the ...
A coffee farm in Brazil certified by Starbucks was raided for forcing workers to live and work in conditions officials called similar to slavery. Officials in Brazil raided a coffee plantation and rescued 18 workers ...
An international arbitration court made the latest ruling in favor of Chevron in the never-ending legal case between Chevron and Ecuadorian residents who claim their land and water was contaminated by the company over a period ...
Tomasi suffered from a serious illness due to his exposure to pesticides and despite his physical pain, raised his voice to denounce the multimillionaire agribusiness companies responsible. (NewsClick) Fabián Tomasi, who contracted severe toxic polyneuropathy ...
On Thursday, Jair Bolsonaro, Brazilian’s far-right presidential candidate, was stabbed in the right abdomen while campaigning in the state of Minas Gerais. He survived the attack despite losing 40 percent of his blood, according to ...
Guyana has won the black gold lottery, but what will happen to the South American nation with a population of only 800,000 and the continent’s smallest GDP now that oil has been found offshore? In ...
Several recent incidents have led US security authorities to believe Mexico’s drug cartels may be turning to armed drones to attack targets impeding their operations. While cartels have used drones for surveillance and drug trafficking, armed ...
Former Columbian president declared recognition of Palestine as a sovereign state, but will the declaration hold under the new administration? Last Wednesday, Colombia’s outgoing President Juan Manuel Santos announced that the Columbian government would recognize ...
After a 15-hour debate last Thursday, the Argentine Senate voted to reject a draft bill that would have legalized abortion within the first 14 weeks of pregnancy. 38 Senate members rejected the bill, 31 supported ...
At issue is the fact that the lack of legal abortion led to clandestine abortions, which has led to the deaths of over three thousand women in the past twenty-five years (this number is a ...
On Saturday, a drone exploded near a military event in the capital Caracas when Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro was delivering his speech. The leader and some of the senior officials survived the attack but who ...
Mexico’s president-elect, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, will assume power as Mexico’s new president on December 1 and according to his future chief of public security, one of the first items on his agenda is to ...
The chief of Brazilian’s appeal court has overruled another judge’s ruling to immediately release former Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, affectionately known as Lula, from prison. The effort to release the charismatic politician ...
The former richest man in Brazil and formerly one of the top ten richest men in the world, Eike Batista, has been sentenced to 30 years in prison. Batista, who made his wealth from mining ...
On Sunday, left-wing candidate Andres Manuel López Obrador, popularly referred to as AMLO, won Mexico’s election in a landslide victory. According to a preliminary quick count result, the 64-year-old politician earned between 53 and 53.8 ...
Due to the massive crises of deportation and family separation facing America’s Latino immigrant community, it’s easy to forget that in addition to these incredibly pressing dangers and the imminent threat of persecution from various ...
As the crisis confronting immigrants attempting to enter the US continues to reach greater and greater proportions, it is important to understand why this mass migration is occurring and the role the United States government ...
Former El Salvador President Mauricio Funes and his immediate family alongside 30 former associates are facing charges for a massive corruption scheme. Funes was accused of stealing over $292 million from the country’s mortgage bank, ...
On Sunday, populist conservative politician Ivan Duque won Colombia’s run-off after securing 54 percent of the vote, beating his leftist contender and former Bogota mayor, Gustavo Petro. Petro earned 41.8 percent of the vote. The ...
(InSight Crime, by Parker Asman) Authorities in Honduras have accused dozens of officials and collaborators of diverting millions of dollars of public money for political purposes, including to fund President Juan Orlando Hernández’s 2013 campaign. ...
As the biggest election in Mexico’s history gets closer,so grows the death toll of politicians in Mexico. Between September and last week, 113 politicians including 43 political candidates have met untimely deaths at the hands ...
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has agreed to provide a three-year $50 billion stand-by agreement (SBA) to Argentina to help boost the Latin American nation out of a currency crisis. The amount is the largest ...
On Saturday, Cuba’s National Assembly appointed former leader Raul Castro to lead a commission charged with revamping the country’s constitution. The revisions are expected to provide the legal support for the country’s more open social ...
Last Sunday’s presidential election in Colombia saw former senator Ivan Duque, from Centro Democratico, win 39 percent of the vote, while ex-rebel-turned-politician Gustavo Petro took nearly 25 percent of the vote. Coming in third was ex-Medellin ...
Nicolas Maduro unsurprisingly won Sunday’s Venezuelan presidential election, securing a new six-year term. Former vice president for the late Hugo Chavez gained 68 percent of the vote, according to Venezuela’s National Electoral Council (CNE). His ...
More than 50 additional prosecutors and judges have been assigned to work along the US-Mexico border on immigration cases which have surged under President Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ zero-tolerance policy for illegal border ...
Argentina held talks with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Thursday as the Latin nation is in need of a $30 billion line of credit from the multinational lender following the weakening peso. Christine Lagarde, ...
A man who tried to rob a group of, what he thought were, helpless women and their children learned a fatal lesson about not judging a book by its cover. A would-be thief, identified as ...
As the Trump administration and its allies in law enforcement and border patrol continue to escalate tensions at the U.S. – Mexico border, thousands of children are caught in the crossfire. Children of immigrants fleeing ...
Paraguay announced it will relocate its embassy to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv at the end of May 2018, according to a statement from the Israeli Foreign Ministry. Paraguay’s announcement comes amid chaos in the Middle ...
On Tuesday, the Dominican Republic (D.R.) and Taiwan ended their 77-year diplomatic relationship due to an economic incentive to the D.R. from China worth $3.1 billion in investment and loans. A member of the Dominican ...
Last Thursday marked the beginning of a new era for Cuba, the communist state picked Miguel Diaz-Canel as the country’s new president and the first president after the Castro era. Diaz-Canel is a former vice ...
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