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From fighting disease to protecting the Amazon rainforest, USAID has big impact across the globe
The Trump administration’s decision to close the U.S. Agency for International Development has drawn widespread criticism ...
Newsweek14d
Marco Rubio Defends Aid Freeze: 'The US Government Is Not a Charity'
He has covered conflict, extreme weather events and disasters ... Bridge on the outskirts of Cucuta, Colombia, Feb. 19, 2019. USAID humanitarian aid destined for Venezuela is displayed for the ...
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With Trump now in office, Venezuela wants its migrants back, Maduro says
Venezuela is waiting for migrants to return home after appointments to enter the US were cancelled under the new Trump administration, President Nicolás Maduro said on Tuesday. His comments come ...
The Economist16d
Armed groups are terrorising Colombia’s border with Venezuela
On January 16th violence erupted in Catatumbo on Colombia’s border with Venezuela. Colombia’s oldest active guerrilla group, the National Liberation Army (ELN), began attacking dissidents of ...
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Colombia: Venezuelans in Colombia demand Maduro's resignation
Colombia - January 10, 2025 Hundreds of Venezuelans gathered on Thursday in Colombia to support opposition leaders ahead of Venezuela's ... in the border city of Cucuta, where around a thousand ...
USAID is going away, and along with it cocaine-fighting efforts and Amazon rainforest protection
Billionaire Elon Musk, who is leading government cost reduction in the new administration, said the humanitarian agency, ...
USAID security leaders on leave after trying to keep Musk’s DOGE from classified information
The billionaire on Sunday responded to an X post about the news by saying, “USAID is a criminal organization. Time for it to ...
The Times Leader13d
USAID security leaders on leave after trying to keep Musk’s DOGE from classified info, officials say
USAID humanitarian aid destined for Venezuela is displayed for the media at a warehouse next to the Tienditas International Bridge on the outskirts of Cucuta, Colombia, Feb. 19, 2019. A man walks ...
The New York Times8d
Deportation Flights to Venezuela Will Begin ‘Within the Next 30 Days’
The assertion by Tom Homan, President Trump’s border czar, could herald a shift in the relationship between the United States and Venezuela’s autocrat, Nicolás Maduro. By Julie Turkewitz and ...
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USAID is going away. Here's what it's been doing in South America
FILE - A man walks past boxes of USAID humanitarian aid at a warehouse at the Tienditas International Bridge on the outskirts of Cucuta, Colombia, Feb. 21, 2019, on the border with Venezuela.
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More than 32,000 displaced as violence spirals in Colombian drug trafficking region
The Catatumbo region in northeastern Colombia, where the crisis originated, is a strategic territory for both drug production and trafficking due to its proximity with Venezuela. The region has ...