Tag: Americas
Amazon to cut 9,000 more jobs, 27,000 in total this year
New layoffs at the American digital and distribution giant Amazon. These job cuts are in addition to the wave currently affecting the digital giants. With our correspondent in Washington, Guillaume…
Trump facing justice: four questions about the case that threatens the former American president
That would be unprecedented for a former US president. Donald Trump warned on Saturday March 18 that he expected to be charged on Tuesday in a case involving a payment…
Coca, a leaf like the others?
Last week, the Bolivian vice-president announced that his country would take steps to request that the coca leaf be removed from the United Nations list of narcotics. For him, this…
Gustavo Petro suspends the ceasefire with the Clan del Golfo
Colombian President Gustavo Petro on Sunday March 19 suspended the ceasefire he had concluded on December 31 with the Clan del Golfo cartel, the country’s main drug trafficking gang. According…
In Quebec, immigrants learn to speak French in intensive courses
The only French-speaking province in Canada, Quebec welcomes tens of thousands of migrants each year, often non-French speakers. To preserve its language, the province has set up an extensive francization…
Mexico is neither a colony nor a protectorate of the United States.
On Saturday March 18, in a fiery speech on the Zocalo Zocalo under the windows of the Mexican presidency, President Manuel Andres Lopez Obrador galvanized the crowd with very nationalistic…
deadly earthquake in the south of the country and in Peru
A violent earthquake measuring 6.5 on the Richter scale killed at least 16 people in southern Ecuador and one in northern Peru overnight from Saturday to Sunday. It was felt…
In Africa, the charm offensive of the United States
It’s an almost unprecedented charm offensive. The entire White House has been marching in Africa since the beginning of the year. In January there was Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, who…
Why Honduras wants to establish diplomatic relations with China at the expense of Taiwan
The President of Honduras announced on Tuesday March 14 her intention to establish formal diplomatic relations with Beijing, logically implying the severance of relations with Taipei. In Taiwan, many relativize…
Another 2000 gang members were transferred to the largest prison in the Americas! El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele announced
Another 2,000 arrested gang members were taken to the mega prison in El Salvador. President Nayib Bukele shared the footage of the gang members being taken to prison on his…