Page 6 - Mark Feierstein News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Biden is sending Secretary of State Blinken to Central America to push officials on corruption in their countries and blocking immigration to the U.S.

Biden is sending Secretary of State Blinken to Central America to push officials on corruption in their countries and blocking immigration to the U.S.

More Coverage To underscore that warning, the U.S. Agency for International Development last week announced that it was diverting all aid it gives El Salvador from the government to “civil society” groups that monitor human rights and fight corruption. (USAID did not say how much money was involved.) The move came after Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele fired the country’s attorney general and Supreme Court magistrates and then ignored entreaties from Washington and elsewhere to reconsider what was widely seen as an illegal power grab. “We recognize that in some cases we don’t have...

US Executive Branch schedule for June 1 includes commemoration for the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre, will speak on the coronavirus response and economy later in the week.

By NORA GÁMEZ TORRES AND JACQUELINE CHARLES | Miami Herald | Published: January 16, 2021 (Tribune News Service) — As president, Donald Trump focused much of U.S. policy in Latin America on curbing migration and clamping down on autocratic leaders in Venezuela, Cuba and, occasionally, Nicaragua — three countries coined the “troika of tyranny” by one of his former advisers. By all accounts, President-elect Joe Biden is expected to take a different approach. “Biden’s Latin America policy will be profoundly different than the Trump strategy, which mostly focused on inhibiting mig...