Tag: Americas
the specter of budgetary paralysis recedes
The threat of a long paralysis of the federal state receded significantly on Friday after the adoption in the lower house of Congress of a budgetary text with broad support…
extortion, “vacuna”, the other reason that pushes the population to emigrate
There is no shortage of reasons to emigrate to Ecuador: rampant violence that makes the country one of the most dangerous in Latin America, an economic and social crisis, and…
Donald Trump’s new threat towards the European Union – L’Express
Not yet in office, recently elected American President Donald Trump is already threatening the European Union with customs taxes, accusing it of widening a “huge” trade deficit with Washington. For…
A “shutdown” in the United States? Five questions on the budgetary paralysis which threatens the country – L’Express
The United States finds itself on the verge of budgetary paralysis this Friday, December 20, after the successive failures of several texts in Congress, and while no solution to the…
more than 270,000 migrants expelled in one year, a record for 10 years
American authorities have expelled more than 270,000 people in one year, according to official estimates published on December 19, a few weeks before Donald Trump’s return to power, the Republican…
The United States moves closer to budgetary paralysis after the failure of a new text
The US House of Representatives on Thursday largely rejected a new Republican budget text aimed at avoiding a paralysis of the federal state, a stinging failure which increases uncertainty before…
Cuba to implement a floating exchange rate
In Cuba, the government has just announced the reestablishment of a floating exchange rate for the peso. A new attempt for the communist regime in power for 65 years to…
The threat of a shutdown looms in the United States, and Donald Trump and Elon Musk have nothing to do with it – L’Express
Donald Trump expressed his opposition to a budget agreement negotiated in the American Congress between Republican and Democratic elected officials on Wednesday, December 19, thus further raising the specter of…
media hype, unequal health system – L’Express
The video is chilling. And unfortunately, so ordinary for the United States. The scene takes place on Wednesday December 4 in the morning. A man in a tailored suit walks…
Three dead, including minor suspect, in school shooting
A teenager opened fire on Monday December 16 at his school in Madison, in the state of Wisconsin, in the northern United States, killing two people and injuring six others.…