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Baja California Sur launches EMBRACE IT: an initiative to support sustainable tourism through its new Tourism Development Strategy

Baja California Sur launches EMBRACE IT: an initiative to support sustainable tourism through its new Tourism Development Strategy

LA PAZ, Mexico, July 4, 2025 /PRNewswire/ - The Government of the State of Baja California Sur will officially implement the EMBRACE IT tax on foreign visitors who stay in the state for more than 24 hours. This measure aims to generate funds to...

Trump Threatens Tariffs For Countries Backing ‘Anti-American’ Global Alliance

Trump Threatens Tariffs For Countries Backing ‘Anti-American’ Global Alliance

President Donald Trump warned on Sunday that any countries considering alignment with the BRICS intergovernmental organization would face an additional 10% tariff, with no exceptions. The BRICS group was initially founded in 2009 by Brazil,...

Flanking tactics

Flanking tactics

Don’t look now, but if we’re not careful, we could find ourselves legally outflanked over the West Philippine Sea. In a move widely reported abroad on May 30 but which merited just minor, bottom-page treatment in the “World” pages of two local...

No School, No Work: The Worrisome Expansion of LatAm’s ‘Ninis’

No School, No Work: The Worrisome Expansion of LatAm’s ‘Ninis’

Young people in Latin America who neither study nor work — the so-called Ninis — are becoming a ticking time bomb for the region’s economies. There are now 20 million Ninis, making up over 18% of Latin America’s youth aged 15 to 24, according to...

Vulgarity of Money

Several times, the question arose of whether Menachem Begin saw any comparison between the struggle of the Palestinians and the Jews’ War of Independence. Once, Mike Wallace, the well-known American interviewer asked him directly, “Mr. Prime...

Anti-Cuban Agent Disguised as a “Sheep”

Anti-Cuban Agent Disguised as a “Sheep”

LA PAZ. – With tiger stripes beneath sheep’s wool, the U.S. government seeks to disguise its anti-Cuban agent Rosa María Payá, denounced Bolivian television channel Abya Yala in this capital. With a photo of her together with former de facto...

Petro nombra a Rosa Villavicencio como canciller, es la cuarta persona que ocupa el cargo en menos de 3 años de mandato

Petro nombra a Rosa Villavicencio como canciller, es la cuarta persona que ocupa el cargo en menos de 3 años de mandato

Por Mauricio Torres, CNN en Español El presidente de Colombia, Gustavo Petro, nombró este miércoles a Rosa Yolanda Villavicencio como nueva ministra de Relaciones Exteriores, un cargo que asume tras la renuncia de la anterior canciller, Laura...

Trump is targeting a group of countries over 'Anti-American' policies. Here's what the BRICS feud is all about.

Trump is targeting a group of countries over 'Anti-American' policies. Here's what the BRICS feud is all about.

President Donald Trump threatened the BRICS bloc with higher tariffs this week, taking aim at policies he described as anti-American. Trump targeted the bloc—which includes Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, and other partner states—in a...

Franck Sorbier Presents His New Haute Couture Winter 2025/2026 Collection: ​L'Eldorado

Franck Sorbier Presents His New Haute Couture Winter 2025/2026 Collection: ​L'Eldorado

Quite a story While the myth of Eldorado appeared in the Bogota region in 1536, the golden-roofed pagodas of Burma, described by Marco Paolo, are thought to have contributed to the origin of this legend. New!See details Place Pre-order A custom of...

Will Mexico be the new powerhouse for Holcim?

Holcim Mexico has been promoting itself as the lynchpin of the group’s growth in Latin America this week. The move makes sense following the spin-off of Holcim’s North America business in late June 2025. The company says that Mexico has a housing...

Brunswick County Sheriff's Office reports: July 1-8

Brunswick County Sheriff's Office reports: July 1-8

Breaking and/or entering — Young Street, Shallotte. Larceny after breaking/entering — Young Street, Shallotte. Injury to personal property — Jolly Roger Drive/Seashore Road, Supply. Financial transaction card fraud — Jennifer Court, Leland. Injury...

Trump defiende a Netanyahu y Bolsonaro en medio de su narrativa de persecución

Trump defiende a Netanyahu y Bolsonaro en medio de su narrativa de persecución

Análisis de Juan Carlos López, CNN en Español Donald Trump ha redoblado su respaldo a líderes acusados de corrupción o autoritarismo, como Benjamín Netanyahu y Jair Bolsonaro, presentándolos como víctimas de persecuciones políticas similares a la...

Rusia lanza un ataque récord con drones contra Ucrania tras las críticas de Trump a Putin

Rusia lanza un ataque récord con drones contra Ucrania tras las críticas de Trump a Putin

Por Lex Harvey y Kosta Gak Rusia lanzó su mayor ataque con drones contra Ucrania desde el comienzo de su invasión, dijeron el miércoles funcionarios ucranianos, apenas horas después de que el presidente de Estados Unidoss, Donald Trump, prometiera...

FIFA Club World Cup: Nigeria’s hopes of participation hang by a thread

FIFA Club World Cup: Nigeria’s hopes of participation hang by a thread

Curtains fell last Sunday at the 2025 FIFA Club World Cup without a Nigerian flag flown at the soccer festival. That conspicuous absence summarises the poor state of club football at home. But Nigeria can only participate in the championship when...

BRICS 17th Summit Condemns Tariffs and Unilateralism

Gathering held in the South American state of Brazil where the alliance representing more than half of the world’s population gathered to discuss the present crisis and the future Geopolitical Analysis United States President Donald Trump has...

Will the Trump Administration Face Headwinds as It Tightens the Noose Around Cuba? (Yes.)

Will the Trump Administration Face Headwinds as It Tightens the Noose Around Cuba? (Yes.)

July 9, 2025 Now it’s aiming at Cuba’s international medical missions. Edit Ad Policy Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks during a news conference following the NATO summit on June 25, 2025.(Omar Havana / Getty Images) President Donald Trump and...

Moscow to Present Latin American and Caribbean Culture

Moscow to Present Latin American and Caribbean Culture

Thu 17 Jul 2025 | 02:30 PM From 19 to 27 July, Moscow will host the Festival of Latin American and Caribbean Culture, according to TV BRICS. The main venue for the event will be the Hermitage Garden, where musical and dance performances,...

Covering Measles for Mennonites

Covering Measles for Mennonites

Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. On February 25, a child died in Seminole, Texas, in a community of Mennonites. The cause was measles. John Dueck, the editor of Die Mennonitische Post—or the Mennonite Post, known to readers as...

Trump threatens to slap Brazil with 50 percent tariffs over treatment of Bolsonaro, other disagreements

Trump threatens to slap Brazil with 50 percent tariffs over treatment of Bolsonaro, other disagreements

And it echoes a social media post Trump shared earlier this week, accusing the country of unfairly treating Bolsonaro, who is on trial over allegations related to his role in 2022 riots in the capital of Brasilia, when his supporters stormed...

Bonn climate talks expose divisions over climate finance and tariffs

Bonn climate talks expose divisions over climate finance and tariffs

Each June, international climate negotiators descend on Bonn in west Germany for a two-week conference at the secretariat of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Bonn is a mid-year checkpoint for the UN climate governance...

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