In the spotlight: 300 Haitian migrants wash up in Florida
The wooden boat carrying some 300 Haitian migrants ran aground off the Keys, Florida, more than 160 of them had to swim ashore, March 6, 2022. Many needed medical attention, were US federal authorities said.
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Their wooden boat is on the cover of the
Miami Herald
.
Several hundred Haitian migrants - some 300 people according to AFP - arrived Sunday off Ocean Reef Club, a luxury private club north of Key Largo, in the Florida Keys archipelago.
About half of them swam to shore when the boat ran aground, says the American newspaper.
Some needed medical assistance,
the chief agent of US Customs and Border Protection said on
Twitter .
He publishes a video on which we see migrants moving from one boat to another, others are wrapped in a blanket.
The
Miami Herald
reports that this is the third group of Haitian migrants arrested in a week, after two interceptions last week off the islands of the Bahamas.
More than 500 people have been taken into custody.
Venezuela: first meeting with American diplomats
In Venezuela, this is a first since 2018 and the re-election of President Nicolas Maduro.
Senior officials from the White House and the US State Department traveled to Caracas on Saturday.
Diplomatic relations between the two countries have been broken for 3 years.
But the tide has turned and the Ukrainian crisis has prompted Washington to change its tune against Nicolas Maduro, one of Russian President Vladimir Putin's main allies.
El Nacional
quotes information published by the
New York Times
.
These senior American officials who traveled to Caracas this weekend intended to “
separate Russia from its last Latin American allies
” and to “
conclude oil agreements with the Venezuelan government
”.
"
The easing of sanctions against Venezuela could constitute an alternative source of energy supply at the global level
", adds
El Universal
.
El Nacional
recalls that President Maduro said Thursday that Venezuela "
is ready to sell oil and gas to the United States
".
“
He assured that the country was currently producing one million barrels of crude oil per day and that this figure would soon reach three million
”.
However, the talks on Saturday "
did not succeed
", writes
El Universal
, taking up information from Reuters.
This diplomatic approach is criticized by the American opposition.
For Republican Senator from Florida, Marco Rubio, quoted by
El Nacional
, "
Biden is using Russia as an excuse to make a deal he always wanted to make with the Maduro government
."
"
Instead of producing more American oil
," he adds, "
he wants to replace the oil we buy from one murderous dictator with oil from another murderous dictator
."
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Guatemala: a Russian mine at the center of an investigation
A final word on this leak of thousands of documents on one of the largest mines in Central America.
Twenty international media have worked on these documents which reveal the maneuvers of Solway, the Russian-Swiss nickel giant, to conceal environmental damage, evade court orders and manipulate the indigenous populations of the Lake Izabal region, in the center of the country. .
Solway extracts thousands of tonnes of ore in Guatemala for processing in Ukraine.
The investigation does not make the front page of the press in Guatemala, but that of
El Pais
in Spain, a member of this consortium of journalists.
The revelations are also taken up this Monday by several Latin American media.
It must be said that in Guatemala, talking about these sensitive issues is extremely dangerous.
Indigenous journalist Carlos Choc paid the price, says
El Pais
.
"
The weight of the state fell on him
", especially when he documented the protest movements of residents around the mine.
The Guatemalan journalist "
has been threatened, his house broken into, his dog has been killed and the ongoing trial against him threatens to alienate him from his children
".
Carlos Choc is a victim, according to the newspaper, "
of a chain of corruption involving a Russian mining company
".
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