If the final peace deal is signed, President Juan Manuel Santos the United States to remove FARC from the State Department’s list of terrorist organizations and to suspend drug warrants against guerilla commanders, as reported by The Guardian.
Read MoreBrazil’s government has faced much controversy over its actions regarding not only the mine clean-up, but Brazil’s failing economy.
Read MoreThe Bolivian government has asked for approximately $140 million in aid to be able to take measures to rebuild the Poopo watershed, but most critics are saying that it is far too late to save the lake.
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The people of Mexico fear that a sharp increase in crime and violence will follow Guzman’s arrest. Analysts predict that with the absence of leadership from the Sinaloa cartel, smaller cartels will start fighting for a place at the top, causing an inevitable rise in violence.
Read MoreAccording to migration expert Shaina Aber, policy director for the National Advocacy Office of the Jesuit Conference of the U.S. and Canada, “There has always been a small but substantial number of ‘extraterritorial refugees’ from Africa and Asia making their way along Latin America’s established migrant trail. You can track the various refugee crises in the world by who starts showing up.”
Read MoreAlthough the scope of the investigation is broad and costly, totaling nearly $40 million, this latest move could end years of division between Ottawa and the aboriginal people.
Read MoreAccording to Reuters, though the report stated that the canal will have an overall positive impact on Nicaragua, the Nicaraguan government must raise the standards applied in building the canal and protect against risks, such as loss of biological reserves and the risk of earthquakes.
Read More“We beat fear with hope. We beat cynicism with hard work. We beat negative, divisive politics with a positive vision that brings Canadians together,” Trudeau said to the cheering crowd at the end of his victory speech.
Read MoreOn October 27, a vote of 191 to 2 gave Cuba its widest margin of favorable votes since the resolution was undertaken by the U.N. in 1992. The second abstaining vote, aside from the United States, was Israel, who continued to vote in line with its Western ally.
Read MoreEarlier on the day of the lecture, word reached university administrators that certain groups had the intention to demonstrate on campus. As a result, security was strengthened. The protest was geared toward both the Dominican Republic and Mr. Fernandez.
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