Category: Americas

Only Vaccinated Persons Can Board Evacuation Vessels to Leave Island Volcano: St. Vincent PM

After a massive 6 mile-high eruption of ashes from the Soufriere volcano frightened the residents of Saint Vincent, Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves said that only those who have been vaccinated for the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus could board the cruise ships evacuating people off the island. “The chief medical officer would be identifying the persons…


St. Vincent Awaits New Volcanic Explosions as Help Arrives

Extremely heavy ashfall rained down across the eastern Caribbean island of St. Vincent on Saturday.


Taipei Resists Beijing’s Vaccine Diplomacy Aimed at Isolating the Island Nation

Taiwan said on April 7 that when nations helped by supplying COVID-19 vaccines to its diplomatic allies that was helping to prevent the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) from invading the island nation; Taiwan said Beijing was trying to use the pandemic to force the island nation’s allies to break away in exchange for vaccines. Paraguay, Taiwan’s…


How a Political Prisoner of 17 Years Resisted Communist Cuba’s Persecution

After 17 years of political persecution and imprisonment at the hands of the Cuban communist regime, and having ultimately found refuge in the United States, Jorge Luis Antonis reflected on what he learned and what helped him resist oppression during a very difficult period in his life. It was March 15, 1990. Luis was 25 years…


Mexico’s Top Diplomat Expects ‘Constant and Growing’ Wave of Migrants

Mexico’s top diplomat on Thursday said he expects a “constant and growing” stream of migrants in the coming year to flow across his country toward the United States from the so-called northern triangle countries: Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador. Foreign Secretary Marcelo Ebrard estimated that the United States would need to donate $2 billion a year…


Explosive Eruption Rocks Volcano on Caribbean’s St. Vincent

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico—An explosive eruption rocked La Soufriere volcano on the eastern Caribbean island of St. Vincent on Friday following mandatory evacuation orders from the local government. Emergency management officials said the ash column rose about 20,000 feet high and that the ash was headed east into the Atlantic Ocean. However, heavy ashfall also…


US Air Force Unprepared for Defence of Taiwan: War Games Analyst

The U.S. Air Force will struggle to maintain pressure on the Chinese military if conflict erupts around the Taiwan Strait, according to a recent war games analysis. “F-22s and F-35s operating under ideal conditions at sophisticated home bases here in the United States, have an ‘operational readiness’ rate of about 60 percent,” Joseph Siracusa, adjunct…


90 Percent of Australia’s Imported Solar Panels Are Made in China

Data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics shows ninety percent of all solar panels imported into Australia came directly from China during the first 9 months of the 2020 financial year. This cost Australia $1.1 billion (US$850 million), and from 2015 to 2020, Australia spent more than $5.3 billion (US$4 billion) on Chinese-made solar panels….


White House Seeks to Create Legal Ways for Central Americans to Immigrate to US: Envoy

The White House is looking to create ways for would-be asylum seekers from Central America—who may otherwise seek to make the perilous trek north and cross the border illegally—to enter into the United States lawfully, President Joe Biden’s special envoy Ricardo Zuniga said on Tuesday. Zuniga, Biden’s envoy to the so-called Northern Triangle countries in…


COVID-19 Death Risk on the Rise for Young, Middle Aged Adults in Brazil: Study

The risk of death in young and middle aged adults in Brazil after contracting COVID-19 is on the rise, researchers have found.