Cuba’s cigar industry still projects luxury abroad. Still, Al Jazeera’s reporting shows a harsher truth at home, where fuel shortages, blackouts, weak harvests, and migration are shrinking production, emptying shops, and leaving workers trapped between prestige and daily scarcity now. Luxury Behind Empty Glass Just steps from the noise and traffic of Old Havana, a […]
In Mexico, families searching for the disappeared have become investigators, excavators, and witnesses, filling a vacuum left by impunity, fear, and official delay. In contrast, cartel violence keeps swallowing people and forcing loved ones to find tenderness, evidence, and closure in the same pit. Where Grief Becomes Labor For hours under a blistering sun, Raúl […]
El Salvador’s new life sentences for children expose the brutal moral bargain inside Nayib Bukele’s anti-gang revolution, where security, fear, punishment, and democracy now collide in a nation exhausted by violence and willing to test how far vengeance can go. When Fear Writes the Law In El Salvador, the latest constitutional reform does not just […]
Peru’s tightening presidential race has revived a familiar national argument over growth, exclusion, and elite fear, as Roberto Sanchez gains ground and investors recoil, exposing how deeply the country still struggles to reconcile macroeconomic stability with demands from voters long kept at the margins. When Markets Smell a Political Earthquake Peru’s markets are not just […]
By Felicia J. Persaud News Americas, NEW YORK, NY, Thurs. April 16, 2026: The U.S. Supreme Court is now hearing a case that could redefine one of the most fundamental truths about America: who gets to belong in what is being dubbed the birthright citizenship case. At stake is birthright citizenship – the constitutional guarantee […]
Bukele bets on Google to build world’s best health system as medical sector decries layoffs Wednesday, April 15th 2026 – 10:00 UTC The 30,000 daily appointments are human doctors treating patients with AI support. But AI agents will be doing this separately and in parallel, he specified. El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele announced […]
Uruguay bets on international integration to attract investment amid global uncertainty Wednesday, April 15th 2026 – 10:20 UTC The IMF cut its growth forecast for Uruguay from 2.4% to 1.8% for 2026, matching the 2025 rate, as part of a global revision triggered by the conflict in Iran Uruguay’s government responded on Tuesday […]
IMF approves second review of Argentina program, unlocking US$1 billion disbursement Wednesday, April 15th 2026 – 22:10 UTC Argentina is the IMF’s largest debtor. Its obligations to the Fund exceed $57 billion, accounting for 34.5% of the institution’s outstanding loans, and grew 36% over the past twelve months The International Monetary Fund on […]
Trump says he will fire Powell if he stays past May as Senate stalls successor’s confirmation Wednesday, April 15th 2026 – 22:12 UTC Powell publicly linked the investigation to political pressure after receiving the first subpoena in January US President Donald Trump on Wednesday threatened to fire Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell if […]
Logistics corridor to Falklands via Uruguay: former Kirchnerist diplomat denounces untracked flight Thursday, April 16th 2026 – 00:09 UTC According to a source close to the Islands’ administration who spoke with MercoPress, many of these flights are medical evacuations of Falkland Islanders A Royal Air Force (RAF) Airbus A400M Atlas transport aircraft operated […]