New York, N.Y. Colombia’s government and its largest rebel group announced a new, modified peace accord Saturday, after voters rejected an earlier deal in a referendum. Secretary Kerry Meets With Colombian Officials in Havana, Cuba. Photo: U.S. Department of State. The government and Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) – a Marxist guerrilla group – […]
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Latino Voters Potentially ‘Game Changer’ in Presidential Elections
Washington, D.C. The Latino population has grown into the largest minority group in the United States, a transformation that makes this voting bloc increasingly influential in this November’s presidential election. Latinos comprise more than 17 percent of the total U.S. population, according to the Pew Research Center, and U.S. Census figures project that number to […]
Cuban-American Youth More Open to Improved U.S.-Cuba Relations
Miami, FL. Like many young Cuban-Americans in Miami, 18-year-old Stephanie Chaviano grew up speaking two languages: Spanish, at home, and English, in school. President Barack Obama’s change in policy toward Cuba comes as the Cuban-American population itself is changing – in its demographics, views of U.S.-Cuba policy and its politics. Chaviano has spent her entire […]
Six Years After Quake, ‘Deteriorating’ Situation for Those in Haiti Camps
New York, N.Y. Six years after the devastating earthquake that killed more than 200,000 people and left at least 1.5 million homeless, the United Nations is underlining that humanitarian action has achieved significant results, but that the situation has been deteriorating since June. Six years after the devastating earthquake of 2010 that killed 200,000+ people and […]
Sean Penn Interviewed Drug Lord “El Chapo” for Rolling Stone
Washington, D.C. “El Chapo” Guzman in Mexico, months before his capture, for an interview posted on Rolling Stone magazine’s website late Saturday, a day after Guzman was captured by Mexican authorities. Sean Penn at an anti-war rally in Washington, D.C., January 27, 2007. Photo: Elvert Xavier Barnes. Guzman “proudly” volunteers to Penn “I supply more heroin, […]
British Financier: Trump’s Rhetoric Hurts Brand U.S.A., World Economy
London, England. Donald Trump’s rhetoric is “damaging brand U.S.A” internationally and could hit the American economy and jobs, warns the C.E.O. of one of the world’s largest independent financial advisory organizations. The warning from Nigel Green, chief executive and founder of deVere Group, comes after the billionaire frontrunner in the Republican presidential candidate race this […]
Obama Issues Executive Orders on Curbing Gun Violence
Washington, D.C. U.S. President Barack Obama will discuss his new initiatives to curb gun violence in remarks Tuesday at the White House, as he works to detail to Americans the executive orders he says will not step on Constitutional rights. Photo: St. Louis Circuit Attorney’s Office. Some of the measures, first announced by the White […]
U.N. Concerned Over Uncertainty in Haiti, Urges Power Transfer
New York, N.Y. United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon expressed his concern today over growing political uncertainty in Haiti and urged the two candidates in the presidential run-off there to help the electoral process move forward while preserving the country’s democratic gains. Haitians voted in the second round of the senatorial and parliamentary elections and the first […]
