Venezuela denounces Trump’s order for ship blockade as ‘warmongering threats’

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US President Donald Trump has ordered “a total and complete” blockade of all sanctioned oil tankers entering and leaving Venezuela – a move that Caracas has denounced as “warmongering threats”. Trump wrote that Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro’s government had been designated a foreign terrorist organisation (FTO), which had also engaged in “Drug Smuggling, and Human … Ler mais

Kenyans found illegally working at US asylum claim centre in South Africa

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South Africa has accused the US of using Kenyan nationals who did not have work permits at a facility processing applications by white South Africans for refugee status. Seven Kenyans were arrested after intelligence reports revealed that people “had recently entered South Africa on tourist visas and had illegally taken up work” at the centre, … Ler mais

US designates Colombia cocaine gang a terrorist group

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Vanessa BuschschlüterLatin America editor, BBC News Online Getty Images US President Trump signed an executive order classifying fentanyl as a “weapon of mass destruction” The United States has designated a notorious drug-trafficking organisation in Colombia as a terrorist group. The US Treasury Department added the group, known as Clan del Golfo or Gulf Clan, to … Ler mais

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