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Nicaragua: Ortega Orders Greater Snitching on Neighbors
Havana Times
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July 20, 2025
to capture and prosecute the “terrorists” and “conspirators” Daniel Ortega during the July 19, 2025 ceremony. // Photo: CCC The dictator threatened the “traitors,” showered praise on China and Russia, and reiterated that the United Nations must be...
Nicaragua celebrates the 46th anniversary of the Popular Sandinista Revolution
Radio Habana Cuba
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July 20, 2025
Managua, July 20 (RHC)-- Hundreds of thousands gathered in Plaza de la Fe, in Managua, to attend the main ceremony commemorating the anniversary of the emancipation process that overthrew the Somoza dictatorship, which ruled Nicaragua from 1936 to...
Trump’s immigration crackdown hits senior care workforce
Hawaii Tribune Herald
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July 19, 2025
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown is beginning to strain the long-term care workforce, raising concerns about how the effects could ripple across the nation’s senior population. Providers that operate nursing homes and...
Interview: How Latin America Must Prepare for Threat of Russian Disinformation Campaigns
Kyiv Post
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July 18, 2025
Kyiv Post recently sat down with Matteo Pugliese, PhD, an analyst at Debunk working on Russian disinformation campaigns around the world. He recently returned from a training trip to Latin America, where he helped train civil society groups to...
How gambling laws differ between Central and North America
Costa Rica News
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July 19, 2025
Following the rapid expansion of the iGaming industry over the past decade, governments have seen the behaviors of their gambling communities transform significantly. Instead of trying their luck on the casino floor or at the bookmakers, players...
Trump Begins Removing Legal Migrants Under New Crackdown
American Renaissance
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July 18, 2025
Migrants living legally in the US are facing deportation under a new Trump administration crackdown. In an attempt to fulfil his campaign pledge to carry out the largest deportation program in US history, Donald Trump has set his sights on 1.2...
Some immigrants are trying to self-deport. DHS is failing them, they say.
NBC News
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July 18, 2025
The Trump administration has been urging immigrants without legal immigration status to self-deport, with video and radio messages by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem telling them: "Leave now — if you don't, we will find you and deport...
PolitiFact FL: It's not just the ‘worst of the worst’ criminals in Alligator Alcatraz, as officials said
Central Florida Public Media
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July 18, 2025
WLRN has partnered with PolitiFact to fact-check Florida politicians. The Pulitzer Prize-winning team seeks to present the true facts, unaffected by agenda or biases. President Donald Trump, federal officials and Florida Republicans touted the...
Immigration enforcement must respect human dignity
Florida Catholic
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The bishops of the United States have long been advocates of reforms to our broken immigration system. Thoughtful observers of the challenges faced by our country cannot help but recognize that serious reforms are necessary to preserve safety and...
China is the Driving Force Behind More, Newer Renewable Energies in Latin America
Inter Press Service
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July 18, 2025
Development & Aid, Economy & Trade, Editors' Choice, Energy, Featured, Globalisation, Green Economy, Headlines, Latin America & the Caribbean, TerraViva United Nations, Trade & Investment Energy The Cauchari Solar Plant in Jujuy, Argentina,...
Small Miracles: Beans From Nicaragua
The Good Men Project - California
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July 18, 2025
While inhaling the mild, sweet yet aromatic smell before taking my first sip of coffee this morning, it hit me: “The beans in this coffee came from Nicaragua. Nicaragua! But where even is Nicaragua?” No longer the geographical savant I once was, I...
In September, Homeland Security will end temporary protections for more than 50,000 Hondurans and Nicaraguans
The New Zealand Herald
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July 17, 2025
The decision, announced in early July, has been met with outrage from immigrant communities across the country, prompting a lawsuit by the National TPS Alliance, an advocacy group, and seven impacted individuals. The parties allege that the...
Here legally since 1999, thousands of immigrants have 60 days to leave
Anchorage Daily News - Alaska
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Honduran-born Jhony Silva holds a childhood photo of himself with his mother. (Carolyn Fong/For The Washington Post) They are nurses, mechanics, sanitation workers and executives. They’ve fallen in love, bought houses and raised children. They’ve...
Emboldened by Trump, El Salvador’s president has jailed critics. Now journalists and human rights leaders are fleeing en masse
The Spokesman-Review - Washington State
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MEXICO CITY — They have fled to Guatemala, Mexico, Costa Rica and Spain. Most left in a hurry with few possessions, unsure of when — or whether — they would be able to return home. As El Salvador cracks down on dissent, jailing critics of...
Portugal parliament approves tighter migration rules amid broader crackdown
JURIST
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July 17, 2025
Portugal’s parliament voted in favor of sweeping new restrictions on immigration, marking the latest step in a series of measures aimed at tightening the country’s borders and curbing irregular migration, InfoMigrants reported on Thursday. The...
Senator: Australia Must Join Hague Group on Palestine to Stop Genocide
MENAFN
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July 20, 2025
(MENAFN) On Friday, Australian Senator Lidia Thorpe called on Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s government to align with the Hague Group on Palestine, emphasizing Australia’s responsibility to support global initiatives aimed at preventing...
Immigration crackdown under Trump squeezes U.S. nursing homes’ workforce
Haitian Times
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July 16, 2025
Overview: As President Donald Trump's administration rolls back immigration programs, U.S. nursing homes report critical staffing shortages, particularly among immigrants who make up a sizable portion of the elder care workforce. Workers from...
How NATO crushed Africa’s path to freedom
Meer
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July 20, 2025
….there can be no law, if we were to invoke one code of international conduct for those who oppose us, and another for our friends. 1 (President Eisenhower) Introduction The killing of Gaddafi with active support from NATO forces in October 2011...
Who ended up at Alligator Alcatraz? It’s not just ‘worst of the worst’ criminals, as officials said
Politifact
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July 17, 2025
President Donald Trump, federal officials and Florida Republicans touted the remote Everglades immigration detention centers — dubbed Alligator Alcatraz — as a place to detain people deemed the "worst of the worst." There are criminals with...
World News | El Salvador's Top Human Rights Group Flees President Bukele's Ongoing Crackdown on Dissent
Latestly
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July 17, 2025
Mexico City, Jul 17 (AP) El Salvador's top human rights organisation, Cristosal, announced Thursday it is leaving the country because of mounting harassment and legal threats by the government of President Nayib Bukele. The organization has been...