American Gen. Laura Richardson, who oversees US military operations in Latin America, recently told the Aspen Security Forum in Colorado that the US needs a new approach to counter Russian and Chinese – especially Chinese – influence in the region. Richardson called on American policymakers to...
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Climate change allegedly has claimed many victims. Temperatures as high as 117 degrees Fahrenheit were recently causing fatal heat strokes in Pakistan. The South Asian country is on track to warm by almost nine degrees Fahrenheit by the 2090s compared with the early 1980s. These deaths...
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The president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, skipped the recent Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles. The move was considered a snub against American leaders who convened the summit to tackle migration and other serious issues facing the Western Hemisphere, wrote Newsweek. Further...
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The United States, Canada and a number of Latin American nations signed a migration agreement this week that would mark a shift in the approach countries take to refugees and migrants following a weeklong regional summit that was boycotted by a number of key countries,...
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A growing number of Latin American leaders are threatening to shun a key Americas summit hosted by the United States next month after Washington hinted that the meeting would exclude Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua, the Washington Post reported. Held every three years in a different country,...
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