Tag: Americas
American women betrayed by their smartphones, Washington files a complaint
The United States Consumer Protection Agency on Monday (August 29th) sued a data collection company for selling anti-abortion groups the geolocation information of ” hundreds of thousands of mobile phones.…
resumption of demonstrations in several cities of Haiti
For a week, Haitians have been demonstrating against the high cost of living and bad governance. On Monday, the movement resumed with renewed vigor in several cities across the country,…
Cuba plans to end power cuts by year’s end
The Cuban government hopes to end or at least diminish “ by the end of the year power cuts that hit the population daily, President Miguel Diaz-Canel said Monday. In…
Enforced disappearances increasingly undermine Mexico
August 30 is the International Day for Victims of Enforced Disappearance. According to the United Nations, this violent strategy of terrorizing citizens is a global problem, but in Mexico, where…
Bogotá and Caracas restore diplomatic ties
This is the front page of the press in Colombia and Venezuela: the arrival of two ambassadors in Caracas and Bogotá marks the re-establishment of diplomatic ties between the two…
Fifty years after the last Apollo mission, the United States returns to the Moon
In Cape Canaveral, Florida, NASA has started the countdown. The first mega-rocket of the Artemis program is scheduled to take off Monday morning around 8:33 a.m. local time. This first…
Texas oil company pleads guilty over California oil spill
In the United States, the managers of an oil pipeline have pleaded guilty to pollution. They will have to pay $13 million for an oil spill that occurred in October…
President Petro offers talks to coca growers
In Colombia, the new president Gustavo Petro multiplies the proposals to fight against drug trafficking: on Wednesday August 24, he had called on the traffickers to surrender, promising them not…
top-secret documents at Trump’s house justified FBI raid
It was the presence of extremely confidential documents in boxes recovered from Donald Trump that prompted the search of the American federal police (FBI) in the residence of the former…
Biden takes on Republicans close to Trump, calls ‘semi-fascist ideology’
The American president attacks Republicans close to Donald Trump. During a Democratic rally, less than three months before the mid-term elections, the American president had very harsh words, speaking of…