We thought the days when our country treated asylum-seekers with cruelty and disdain might be ending. This month we learned we were wrongWe thought the days when our country treated asylum-seekers with cruelty and disdain might be ending. This month we…
Paraguay on the brink as historic drought depletes river, its life-giving artery
Severe drought that began in late 2019 continues to punish the region while experts say climate change and deforestation may be intensifying the phenomenonIn the shadow of towering grain silos that line the bank of the River Paraná, South America’s sec…
Haiti deportations justified because of Covid, Biden homeland secretary says
Alejandro Mayorkas vows investigation of horseback roundups‘They treated us like animals’: deported Haitians despairThe US homeland security secretary, Alejandro Mayorkas, on Sunday defended the Biden administration’s decision to send thousands of Hait…
El Salvador’s adoption of bitcoin as legal tender is pure folly
Cryptocurrencies are a baffling entity but adopting it as legal tender is the strangest, most worrying aspect of allEl Salvador this month became the first country to adopt a cryptocurrency – in this case, bitcoin – as legal tender. I say the first, be…
US envoy to Haiti resigns over ‘inhumane’ decision to deport migrants
Daniel Foote excoriates Washington in letter addressed to Antony Blinken for deporting hundreds from a border campThe US envoy to Haiti dramatically resigned on Thursday in a letter that excoriated Washington for deporting hundreds of migrants to the v…
On thin ice: how The Alpinist captured the terrifying climbs of Marc-André Leclerc
Climbing solo without ropes, the Canadian adventurer would scale stratospheric walls of ice that could crack and fall with one wrong move. We meet the makers of a gripping, heartbreaking new filmAn insect-like creature is climbing a wall. The wall is m…
Canada’s Tory party left reeling after dismal performance in federal election
The results raise questions about the future of Erin O’Toole’s party, which has lost ground under conservative and liberal candidatesCanada election 2021: full resultsThe head of Canada’s Conservatives has ordered a review of the party’s dismal perform…
Canadian police seek man who allegedly punched nurse for vaccinating his wife
A man confronted a female nurse at a pharmacy in Quebec for giving his wife a Covid-19 vaccine ‘without his authorization’Police in the Canadian province of Quebec are searching for a man they suspect of punching a nurse in the face for giving his wife…
Brazil’s health minister tests positive for Covid after meeting maskless Johnson
Marcelo Queiroga sat close to Boris Johnson and Liz Truss at New York meetingCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe Brazilian health minister, Marcelo Queiroga, has tested positive for Covid and gone into isolation, 24 hours af…
Haitian migrants and refugees cross the Rio Grande – in pictures
In the past few weeks more than 12,000 Haitians have arrived in Del Rio, Texas, gathering in a huge makeshift camp. Many have to cross the Rio Grande from Del Rio to Ciudad Acuña to seek food and supplies in Mexico to bring back to family members waiti…