Some
6.5 million undocumented youths and children of immigrants currently living in
the United States, the so-called Dreamers, face deportation if Congress fails
to reach an agreement on DACA. Interview. EspañolPortuguês
Milhões de jovens sem documentos vivem
actualmente nos Estados Unidos. Os chamados Dreamers
correm o risco de serem deportados se o Congresso não chegar a um acordo sobre
o DACA. Entrevista. Español English
Unos 6.5 millones de jóvenes indocumentados que viven en Estados Unidos, los llamados Dreamers, se enfrentan a su deportación si el Congreso no lo
remedia. Entrevista. English Português
The colonial image of Persians as hypocritical and unreliable is so deeply entrenched in western imagination, that it affects policymaking on the highest levels.
Many Mexican households
depend on remittances from abroad, mostly from the United States. How are they
to recover from recent natural disasters if Trump decides to impose higher
taxes on them? Spanish
¿Cómo se recuperarán muchos hogares mexicanos que dependen de remesas
del exterior, en su mayoría procedentes de Estados Unidos, si Trump decide gravarlas
con más impuestos? English
The relationship between Iraq and the United States is intimate,
toxic, and enduring. It is a relationship whose violence is generally
dismissed as inevitable.
As the Trump administration prepares to dismantle the 5-year program through which some 790,000 children lived temporarily without fear of deportation. Yet DACA did not provide a pathway to residency or citizenship Español
Trump quiere desmantelar el programa gracias al que unos 790.000 menores vivían sin temor a ser deportados. Pero DACA ya resultaba insuficiente, y no era una vía para obtener la residencia o la ciudadanía. English
La
post-verdad no solo es “made in USA” sino que también se fabrica en Colombia,
con la connivencia del Estado, produciendo enormes beneficios económicos para
el sector productivo.
تقريرجديد يشير الى أن تزايد احتمالات
الإساءة للمدنيين وإلحاق الضرر بهم في
ظل الإدارة الأمريكية الجديدة تجعل الشفافية مسألة
ملحة أكثر من أي وقت مضى English.
The open manifestation of an ‘American-Sunni’ coalition
against Iran with huge anti-Shia intonations does nothing to promote
peace, stability and coexistence in the region.
Trump’s regional approach to “peace” and stability and
the new regional order, aims to ensure the normalcy of relations
between Israel and its Arab neighbours, especially the wealthy ones.
Some stories are not dramatic enough to be widely reported by the media.
Yet, like other cases of flagrant injustice, they are worth being
told. This is one of them.
Donald Trump is not an
aberration. He is the extreme manifestation of an existing foreign
policy doctrine - the ‘mafia principle’ – and he is determined to
release the whole potential of its violent core.
The highly unexpected victory of
Donald Trump in the US presidential elections sent shock waves
across the world, but for Iraq’s PM Haider al-Abadi, it
unquestionably heralded the beginning of what promises to be a
long-running painful nightmare.
The early signs of the new Trump
administration’s policies towards the Middle East suggest that he
is
poised to repeat some of the Bush administration’s most fatal
errors.
Trump’s policy attempts to apply a tourniquet to the perceived 'Muslim problem' that has been manufactured and now exacerbated by the west's wayward dealings in the Middle East.
If you are from the Middle East, Donald Trump is a sad reminder of virtually all the mainstream politicians you have lived under, often supported by the US government.
As President Trump concludes his
first week in the White House with extremely protectionist policies, there will
be no sigh of relief in Latin America. Español
Trump said he wanted to bar Muslims from entering the country "until our country's representatives can figure out what is going on”. Only the right sort of figuring would be an antidote to Trump.
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