Trump threatens tariffs on countries supplying oil to Cuba, tightening pressure on Mexico Friday, January 30th 2026 – 05:16 UTC The measure comes amid deep strains in Cuba’s energy system, including fuel shortages, recurring blackouts and constraints on transport and production U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order that opens the door […]
French legislation will replace concept of ‘conjugal duty’ with ‘sexual autonomy’ Friday, January 30th 2026 – 07:08 UTC The European Court of Human Rights ruled last year that France had failed to adequately protect sexual autonomy within marriage The French Senate is ready to discuss and approve legislation aimed at removing any legal basis for […]
Uruguay’s Orsi heads to China with large delegation to deepen trade and strategic ties Friday, January 30th 2026 – 05:35 UTC Uruguay’s Orsi heads to China with large delegation to deepen trade and strategic ties Uruguayan President Yamandú Orsi has departed for China at the head of a roughly 150-strong delegation, framing the […]
By Ron Cheong News Americas, Toronto, Canada, Thurs. Jan. 29, 2026: Donald Trump’s political approach has not been defined by a consistent commitment to long-term institutional stewardship – either domestically or internationally. To assume otherwise risks attributing to him a degree of altruism or strategic coherence that his record does not clearly support. Mark Carney’s […]
News Americas, NEW YORK, NY, Jan. 29, 2026: Trinidad and Tobago-born rapper Nicki Minaj says she has received a special U.S. immigration “gold card” from President Donald Trump, signaling what she described as a fast-tracked path toward U.S. citizenship. Minaj made the disclosure on Wednesday, hours after appearing alongside Trump at a U.S. Treasury Department […]
News Americas, KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Jan. 29, 2026: St. Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister, Dr. Godwin Friday, has laid out his first national budget since taking office – and the figures reveal both ambition and constraint as his administration grapples with rising debt costs, disaster recovery, and tight revenue growth. Prime […]
In San Miguelito, garbage has become a daily geography—piled along sidewalks, wedged into gutters, drifting toward rivers and sea. Now Panamá is testing an unusual response: incarcerated women sweeping the streets for a day’s freedom, and a day less behind bars. Seventy Blue Shirts Step Outside For A Few Hours Before sunrise at the Centro […]
A decade after Adriana Paz first helped put Ciudad Juárez’s nightmare on screen, she is back at Sundance with “La Cazadora”—a raw, fact-rooted story where abandonment turns into resolve, and the border’s silence becomes a voice the festival can’t ignore. Back Into the Desert, Back into the Wound For Adriana Paz, walking into Sundance this […]
At three thousand nine hundred meters above sea level, just outside La Paz, a place designed for punishment smells, unexpectedly, like warm bread. In Qalauma, young Bolivians in trouble with the law shape metal, stitch cloth, and carve wood—practicing, quietly, the hard art of returning. Where the Altiplano Teaches Patience The name is a promise […]
After ten police killings and a state of siege, armed patrols enter El Gallito, a neighborhood long ruled by gangs, revealing how fear, emergency powers, and daily life collide in Ciudad de Guatemala as residents, officers, and mistakes turn fatal. A Neighborhood Entered Only with Permission El Gallito, a densely populated barrio just two kilometers […]