Chinese companies face many difficulties in the ‘South American lithium triangle’
The "South American lithium triangle" region has become an important objective for Chinese Communist Party investment in recent years. It has the world's richest high-quality lithium resources. However, due to factors including consumption of water resources, environmental pollution, and local opposition to mineral privatization, Chinese companies have encountered challenges and ...
Feared Colombian drug boss Otoniel extradited to the US
Colombia extradited alleged Gulf Clan leader Dairo Antonio Úsuga David, known as Otoniel, to the United States on Wednesday, Colombian President Iván Duque said. https://twitter.com/IvanDuque/status/1521988027664547848 According to Duque, Otoniel is the most dangerous drug trafficker globally, comparable only to Pablo Escobar, and is a murderer of police officers and abuser of children ...
Houston firefighter reunites with his Chilean mother 38 years later, he had been stolen at birth
A Houston, Texas, firefighter had an emotional reunion with his biological family 38 years later after learning he was kidnapped and sold from Chile as a baby. Tyler Graf, 38, learned on May 22, 2021, through a Chilean nonprofit organization that he had been stolen from his family in Temuco, Chile, ...
UN exposes Venezuela for its human rights failures
On Tuesday, Jan. 25, the United Nations Human Rights Council will analyze Venezuela's dramatic human rights situation during its Universal Periodic Review (UPR). The UPR is how the organization's member countries can expose the socialist authorities' blatant disregard for the organization's member countries for the fundamental rights of their citizens. The ...
President Jair Bolsonaro’s mother dies at 94 years of age
The mother of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, Olinda Bonturi Bolsonaro, died today Jan. 21 at the age of 94, after two heart attacks. Her funeral honors are being prepared in the city of Eldorado, in the state of São Paulo. President Bolsonaro canceled his trip to Guyana and will return to ...
Tsunami in Tonga caused oil spill in Peru’s sea with devastating ecological consequences
Peru warned about the ecological disaster caused by the waves resulting from the volcanic eruption in Tonga on Saturday Jan. 15 2022, according to Reuters. After heavy waves and flooding over the weekend caused by the oil spill from Repsol's Mare Dorium ship in the Lima coastal district of Ventanilla, Peruvian ...
Bolsonaro’s growing popularity on Telegram triggers smear campaign from mainstream media
Having reached more than one million followers on Telegram, again the mainstream media launched a campaign to discredit Brazil's president, Jair Bolsonaro, accusing him of promoting fake news to manipulate voters and predicting that he will try to do again what he did in 2018: win elections by campaigning on ...
Brasil: a giant waterfall block collapsed, killing 6 people and injuring many others
According to the New York Daily News, a massive boulder fell on boaters at a major tourist spot in Brazil, killing six people and injuring scores more on Saturday, Jan. 8 2022. The carnage was captured in a disturbing video that quickly went viral. The tragedy occurred near Lake Furnas ...
Bolsonaro discharged from hospital after intestinal complication, sequel to assassination attempt
The president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, was discharged this Wednesday, January 5, after being hospitalized for two days due to an obstruction in his intestines, sequel to the stabbing he received in 2018 in an assassination attempt by a socialist fanatic. Bolsonaro used his Twitter account to let his followers know ...
Record: Nearly 2 million illegal immigrants apprehended in the US during 2021
With less than 24 hours to go before the end of 2021, border officials revealed that they apprehended nearly 2 million illegal immigrants during the year attempting to enter the United States through the southern border. Even worse, estimates indicate that about half a million managed to slip through and ...
James Webb Space Telescope launched into space, to reveal universe secrets
The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has successfully launched the James Webb Space Telescope into space after years of delay, which is expected to help open human eyes to cosmic history—from within our solar system to the most distant observable galaxies in the early universe. Webb was launched on an Ariane ...
Uighur groups to sue Chinese Communist Party in Argentina for crimes against humanity
Two major Uighur activist groups announced that they are preparing a genocide lawsuit against the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in Argentina because the federal courts of the South American country have already accepted more than one criminal complaint of universal jurisdiction. Even in one of them, a judge requested the ...
Paraguay maintains ties with Taiwan
Federico Gonzalez, a top adviser to the President of Paraguay, confirmed with Reuters on Dec. 10 that his country would continue diplomatic relations with Taiwan despite China. The affirmation came as Central American country Nicaragua opted for China's ties over Taiwan. Both Nicaragua and the South American nation Paraguay have been among the ...
‘Super Mustache’: Venezuela premieres series in which dictator Maduro is a superhero fighting ‘the empire’
Venezuelan state-owned television network VTV premiered this week fragments of a new cartoon series called "Super Mustache." The main character represents Nicolás Maduro, the socialist dictator, who confronts "the empire" of the United States. The transmitted fragments of the series show Maduro's facial hair, which makes him easily recognizable. In addition, ...
Venezuela’s socialist regime expelled an EU election observer mission
A group of electoral observers from the European Union (EU) was in Venezuela monitoring the controversial regional elections of Nov. 21. However, after reports indicating possible corruption cases by the government, the regime decided to expel the mission members without even arguing its decision. Bloomberg reported that the observers were expelled ...
7.5 earthquake strikes Peru: Rocks centuries-old church tower
According to Peru's civil defense police commander, a 7.5 magnitude earthquake struck northern Peru on Sunday, Nov. 28, at least four people were injured and 220 houses were damaged. The earthquake also destroyed a 16th-century Catholic church tower. "We have four injuries that are very minor, but they are being treated in ...
