Puerto Rico governor resigns after mass protests
Craig TaylorRicardo Rosselló is stepping down after obscenity-laden messages were leaked from a group chat. BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean
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Does Cuba Have A Secret Mind Altering Ray?
In what sounds like something out of a bad Sci-Fi straight to streaming movie, the US media appears to be suggesting Cuba has a covert mind damaging “Sonic weapon” or ray gun for us sci-Fi nerds, which apparently affected the brains of 44 former diplomats and their family members. What We Know Late in 2016,…
Puerto Rico Governor Ricardo Rosselló Under Pressure Re Slurs
Puerto Rico Governor Ricardo Rosselló has just made the likes of Donald Trump appear like a feminist thanks to a huge number of leaked texts showing him to be a misogynist of the highest order and an overall unsavoury character. However, his comments are only the tip of the iceberg as under his leadership Puerto…
Argentina Cave In To US Pressure Re Hezbollah
Argentina has belatedly designated Hezbollah the Iranian backed Lebanese Islamist movement as a terrorist organisation, 25 years after the Amia Jewish cultural centre in Buenos Aires was bombed with the loss of 85 lives. They are the first Latin American Country to condemn Hezbollah as such and the move comes after much pressure from both…
President Bolsonaro In Denial Re Deforestation
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro whose environmental policies are widely criticised has now cam out and accused his own country’s national space institute of lying about the scale of deforestation in the Amazon. In what will be seen as a dangerous step further to the far-right president said he wants to discuss the issue with the…
Nicaragua mothers mourn on eve of Sandinista revolution’s anniversary
On the 40th anniversary of the Sandinista revolution, some Nicaraguans say there is no reason to celebrate. BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean