Written by Jose Aguilar | March 4, 2024 Haitian Prime Minister, Ariel Henry Haiti is the poorest country in Central America and the Caribbean. Over the last few years, it has been plagued with vast violence that has gone beyond what the Haitian state is capable of grasping. The Haitian National Police is severely understaffed... Continue Reading →
Written by Joseph Cain | March 4, 2024 ELN forces training The National Liberation Army of Colombia (Ejército de Liberación Nacional or ELN) is Latin America’s last-and-longest-standing insurgency. It has been engaged in intermittent peace talks with the Colombian government for decades. However, the Gustavo Petro administration has made peace with the group a cornerstone... Continue Reading →
Written by Joseph Cain | February 18, 2024 President Daniel Noboa Ecuador is facing unprecedented times. In early January, President Noboa stated that Ecuador was in an internal armed conflict with 22 armed groups and gangs. The government has designated these 22 groups as terrorist organizations allowing for military operations against them. However, after years... Continue Reading →
Written by Jose Aguilar | February 18, 2024 The Houthis in Yemen are disrupting global trade through the Suez Canal due to geopolitical factors, which caused ships to divert around the African continent. Global trade is disrupted on this continent, but for different reasons. In the Americas, climate change and droughts are reducing maritime traffic... Continue Reading →
The Guatemalan Congress has been increasing its targeted attacks against the President-elect, Bernardo Arevalo, aiming to strip him as well as members of his party of their political immunity. These attacks are a direct attack against Guatemala's democracy and rule of law.
Argentina was one of six countries to be chosen to join BRICS earlier this year, but with the election of Javier Milei as the new president-elect, this will no longer be the case.
Colombian President Petro is working to boost public spending and increase economic growth, particularly in the face of his quickly declining approval ratings. Petro needs to prove that his policies can benefit the people or he's unlikely to win re-election in 2026.
Honduras and China are working out the conditions for a Free Trade Agreement and recently met to discuss both this and Honduras' participation in the Shanghai Import Fair.
On Thursday of this week, Nayib Bukele registered to run for a second presidential term. According to the CID Gallup, Bukele has an approval rating of 88%, the highest in all of Latin America. The legality of Bukele’s registration to participate in the upcoming February 2024 election is still being questioned. Constitutional lawyers in EL Salvador argue that Bukele’s reelection is against the law.
On November 1st, President of Brazil Lula da Silva announced that 3,600 military personnel will be deployed to increase security in the country’s most important airports—Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo—and ports—Port of Rio de Janeiro and Santos Port in Sao Paulo.
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