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Kingstown (Saint Vincent and the Grenadines) (AFP) - US anti-drug policies have caused a "genocide" of Latin Americans, Colombia's Gustavo Petro alleged Friday at a meeting of regional leaders on the Caribbean island of St Vincent and the Grenadines. "We have lived through a genocide of a million Latin Americans in the last half-century," the Colombian president told the annual summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC). He blamed the United States for basing its drug strategy on "repression" and not on "prevention and public health." "The result could not be more d...
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Caracas (AFP) - The United States said Tuesday it was "deeply concerned" about the detention of a human rights activist in Venezuela who stands accused of involvement in an alleged plot to assassinate President Nicolas Maduro. The Spanish-Venezuelan lawyer and government critic Rocio San Miguel, 57, was detained on Friday in the immigration area of an airport in the capital Caracas. Her detention comes in a crunch election year that has already seen Maduro block his main opposition rival, prompting the United States to threaten to reimpose recently eased oil sanctions. San Miguel's defense tea...
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San Francisco (AFP) - Groups of Tibet activists and pro-China supporters staged opposing demonstrations in San Francisco on Wednesday as Chinese President Xi Jinping visited the city for an APEC summit. A protest organized by the city's Tibetan diaspora was held outside the hotel where US business leaders attended a dinner with Xi, whom they accuse of human rights violations in Tibet. The protest was met by a counter-demonstration of pro-China supporters waving the country's flag, while police separated the two groups with fencing. Xi met with US President Joe Biden on Wednesday before the din...
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Houston (AFP) - The controversial buoys placed by the US state of Texas in the Rio Grande river to deter border crossings are almost all floating in what is actually Mexican territory, according to a topographical survey. About 79 percent of the structure, which consists of a string of orange buoys, is floating on the Mexican side of the river, according to the International Boundary and Water Commission. That leaves just 208 feet of the 995-foot (300 meter) barrier in US waters. The survey was filed in court on Tuesday as part of a lawsuit by the US Department of Justice against Texas over th...
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Bogotá (AFP) - President Gustavo Petro announced Wednesday that he wants to renegotiate a free trade accord that Colombia has with the United States, the main destination for its exports. In a meeting with coffee growers, Colombia's first leftist president said that the treaty in effect for 11 years bars Colombia from growing local strains of corn, instead obligating it to plant only strains produced in the US and Canada. "I want to announce publicly that the renegotiation is starting," Petro said, drawing a standing ovation at the meeting in the southern town of Pitalito. He gave no details. ...
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San José (AFP) - The opening of US migrant processing centers in Colombia, Costa Rica and Guatemala ensures that more than ever these countries will become waiting rooms for asylum seekers wanting American visas. The "Safe Mobility" initiative rolled out by Washington in Central America -- the main corridor for tens of thousands hoping to reach the United States without visas -- attempts to expand legal pathways for asylum seekers while keeping them in countries farther from the US border. The new program started May 11 with the end of Title 42, which had allowed US authorities to return migr...
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Brownsville (United States) (AFP) - Dasling Sanchez rests on a piece of cardboard with her two children near a gas station in Brownsville, Texas, a border town where hundreds of migrants have arrived ahead of immigration restrictions ending, which some fear may actually complicate entry. On Thursday, US President Joe Biden's administration will lift Title 42, the strict protocol implemented by Donald Trump to deny entry to migrants, including asylum seekers, based on the Covid pandemic. Although the looming expiration has raised fears of a deluge of illegal entries along the southern US border...
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Mexico City (AFP) - Two US citizens have died and two others survived after they were taken captive by suspected drug traffickers after entering crime-ridden northeastern Mexico for medical reasons. The two who lost their lives were identified by US media as Shaeed Woodard and Zindell Brown, and the survivors as Latavia Washington McGee and Eric James Williams, who was wounded. Here is what we know so far about the kidnapping in the city of Matamoros in Tamaulipas state. Why were they in Mexico?The four US citizens crossed into Mexico on Friday so that one of them could have a medical procedur...
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Havana (AFP) - Now age 29, Elian Gonzalez has grown up from the child whose 1999 family crisis became the unwitting symbol for the breakdown of Washington-Havana relations to this week becoming a candidate for a seat in Cuba's parliament. State newspaper Granma on Monday released the list of the 470 candidates running for a spot in the upcoming session of the National Assembly of People's Power, which included Gonzalez, who is currently an executive at a public company. Gonzalez first gained international notoriety when on Thanksgiving Day 1999 fishermen rescued the five-year-old from a flimsy...
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Ciudad Juárez (Mexico) (AFP) - Hundreds of migrants amassed Wednesday on the Mexican border, waiting for the expiry next week of a Covid-19 health measure that automatically blocks asylum seekers from entering the United States. Long lines of migrants from Nicaragua, Venezuela, Colombia, Cuba, and elsewhere in Latin America began forming on Sunday in freezing temperatures, in the hopes of being allowed to seek asylum in the United States. "We are seeing hundreds of people who are very cold, do not have food, and are trying to warm themselves a bit," said Fernando Garcia of the NGO Border Netwo...
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