The area planted with coca bushes in Colombia reached a record high last year, an annual UN report says. The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) said that potential coca production had risen by 24% since 2021. Coca leaves are the key ingredient in cocaine and Colombia has...
Fifty years ago today, Chile’s presidential palace, La Moneda, was bombed as part of the military coup to overthrow the country’s democratically elected socialist president, Salvador Allende. By the end of that fateful 11 September 1973, President Allende was dead and a...
Frankfurt (22/09 – 58.33) Since May 2022, the Tajikistan authorities have stepped up their ongoing crackdown on Pamiris, an ethnic, linguistic and religious minority originating from the Pamir mountains in Gorno Badakhshan Autonomous Oblast of Tajikistan. They have arbitrarily detained...
President of Guyana Irfaan Ali has acknowledged “time is not on our side” as the South American country scrambles to make the most of its newfound oil wealth before it is too late. Over the past decade, Guyana has found huge amounts of oil and gas under its coastal waters. It...
An appeals court is allowing Texas to temporarily keep its floating buoys on the Rio Grande River as the legal battle ricochets through the courts. The buoys were placed in July to stop migrants from crossing into the US from Mexico. A federal judge ruled on Wednesday that the barriers...
