Source link Nicaragua has severed diplomatic relations with Ecuador after police in Quito stormed the Mexican embassy Nicaragua has formally severed all relations with Ecuador, escalating the diplomatic fallout over a police raid in Quito to arrest a politician who was taking refuge at the Mexican embassy. The Nicaraguan government announced its decision on Saturday, […]
Source link Beijing’s “non-market” policies should be rebuffed through appropriate “countermeasures,” Katherine Tai has said Market-based US and European economies are struggling to survive against China’s “very effective” alternative economic model, a top US trade representative has warned, according to Euractiv. Katherine Tai told a briefing in Brussels on Thursday that Beijing’s “non-market” policies will […]
Source link Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro sees Washington’s actions close to his country’s borders as “aggression” The United States has installed “secret military bases” in the disputed region of Essequibo, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro claimed on Thursday. The Latin American leader was speaking at a ceremony commemorating a recent law defending Guyana Essequibo. The 62,000-square-mile […]
Source link Argentinian President Javier Milei has repeatedly insulted his Colombian counterpart Colombia has expelled all Argentine diplomats from the country’s embassy in Bogota after Argentinian President Javier Milei called Colombian President Gustavo Petro a “terrorist murderer.” “The Argentine president’s expressions have deteriorated the confidence of our nation, in addition to offending the dignity of […]
Source link Argentinian President Javier Milei has unveiled a plan to slash 70,000 jobs from the state sector and terminate over 200,000 social welfare programs as part of reforms aimed at stabilizing the country’s ailing economy. Milei announced the proposed measures on Tuesday during an hour-long speech at the IEFA Latam Forum in Buenos Aires. […]
Source link The percentage of adults with non-traditional sexual identities has more than doubled since 2012 Over 28% of women in the youngest US adult cohort identify as LGBTQ, most of them as bisexual, according to a Gallup annual survey published on Wednesday. The polling agency began asking Americans about their sexual identity in 2012. […]
Source link President Joe Biden’s speeches alone would be enough to negatively portray the US to audiences in the region, the Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman has said Moscow hardly needs to expend time or effort to make Washington look bad in Latin America, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Tuesday. Zakharova was responding […]
Source link Alexander Stubb has vowed to maintain a close relationship with Washington and the West Finnish President Alexander Stubb has boasted that NATO membership gives his country a “real nuclear deterrent” in the form of American missiles. At his inauguration on Friday, Stubb promised to lead the Nordic nation into a “new era” of […]
Source link The US dollar is backed by nothing and its fall will drag down the rest of the world, El Salvador’s Nayib Bukele has declared The US economy is based on the “farce” of printing unlimited amounts of money, and Western civilization will collapse when that bubble “inevitably bursts,” Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele warned […]
Source link Any Colombians who are fighting for Kiev are doing so based on their own “personal decisions,” Bogota has claimed The Colombian government does not “encourage or facilitate” the flow of mercenaries from the country to fight for Ukraine in its conflict with Russia, the Foreign Ministry has said. The ministry made the statement […]
Source link The Russian food safety regulator, Rosselkhoznadzor, has partially banned imports of bananas from Ecuador, the world’s largest exporter of the fruit, after discovering a dangerous pest in shipments, the agency said in a statement on its website on Friday. The ban targets five Ecuadorian exporters, and will come into force on February 5. […]
Source link Robert F. Kennedy Jr. urged Washington to get “unwelcome” US troops out of Middle East to avoid further escalation of the conflict The US should withdraw its ground troops from Middle Eastern countries that do not welcome them, independent candidate for US president Robert F. Kennedy Jr has said. He said the escalation […]
Source link Washington has launched a new bombing campaign against Iranian-backed fighters in Iraq and Syria The Pentagon has commenced its retaliation for a drone attack that killed three US troops at a secretive base in Jordan, launching airstrikes that hit dozens of targets in Iraq and Syria linked to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) […]
Source link Ecuador must understand that sending Russian-made arms to the US violates existing agreements, the Foreign Ministry has warned Ecuador has made a “rash decision” by caving in to US demands for its old military equipment, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has said. On Tuesday, Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa announced that his country […]
Source link What was once essentially a collective of engineers known for innovation and craftsmanship now operates in the interests of Wall Street On a sunny day in August 1955, Boeing test pilot, Alvin ‘Tex’ Johnston, was to take the Dash-80, the prototype of the Boeing 707, out for a test flight at an annual […]