Guyana President Mohamed Irfaan Ali slammed a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/bbc" target="_blank" rel="noopener">BBC</a> reporter in an interview this week for claiming that his small nation was contributing to climate change by allowing oil drilling off its coast.
BBC journalist Stephen Sackur suggested that Ali was wrong for allowing the drilling and asked him if he had the &#8220;right&#8221; to do so.
&#8220;Let&#8217;s take a big picture look at what&#8217;s going on here. Over the next decade, two decades, it is expected that there will be $150 billion worth of oil and gas extracted off your coast,&#8221; Sackur said. &#8220;It&#8217;s an extraordinary figure. But think of it in practical terms. That means, according to many experts, more than 2 billion tons of carbon emissions will come from your seabed from those reserves and be released into the atmosphere.&#8221;
&#8220;Let me stop you right there,&#8221; Ali fired back. &#8220;Let me stop you right there. Do you know that Guyana has a forest, forever, that is the size of England and Scotland combined? The forest stores 19.5 gigatons of carbon, a forest that we have kept alive, a forest that we have kept alive.&#8221;
&#8220;Does that give you the right to release all of this carbon?&#8221; Sackur asked.
&#8220;Does that give you the right to lecture us on climate change?&#8221; Ali fired back. &#8220;I am going to lecture you on climate change because we have kept this forest alive that stores 19.5 gigatons of carbon that you enjoy, that the world enjoys, that you don&#8217;t pay us for, that you don&#8217;t value, that you don&#8217;t see a value in, that the people of Guyana has kept alive.&#8221;
&#8220;Guess what? We have in the lowest deforestation rate in the world. And guess what? Even with our greatest exploration of the oil and gas resource we have now, we will still be net zero, Guyana will still be net zero with all our exploration,&#8221; he continued.
Sackur tried to cut Ali off, but Ali kept firing away.
&#8220;I am not finished yet. I am just not finished as yet,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;Because this is a hypocrisy that exists in the world. We, the world in the last 50 years, has lost 65% of all its biodiversity. We have kept our biodiversity. Are you valuing it? Are you ready to pay for it? When is the developed world going to pay for it? Or are you in the pockets of those who have damaged the environment? Are you and your system in the pockets of those who destroyed the environment through the Industrial Revolution and now lecturing us? Are you in their pockets? Are you paid by them?&#8221;
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The President of Guyana brought a wrecking ball to the BBC, which tried to guilt trip him and his country for exporting natural resources. <a href="https://t.co/S5Md9Eh90j">pic.twitter.com/S5Md9Eh90j</a>
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Gunmen took over an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ecuador" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ecuadorian</a> television station during a live broadcast on Tuesday as the country descended into further chaos and a state of armed conflict was declared.
The incident comes after Adolfo Macías, a convicted leader of one of the country&#8217;s most powerful gangs, escaped from prison on Monday, sending shockwaves throughout the country.
During their storming of public TC Televisión station, gunshots were heard and alleged explosives were shown by members of the Los Tiguerones and Los Lobos gangs, The Washington Post <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/01/09/ecuadoran-president-declares-armed-conflict-gunmen-storm-tv-studio/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. Law enforcement confirmed the arrests of at least 13 alleged gang members involved in the incident.
The incident comes after multiple attacks have happened across the country over the last day, &#8220;including about 30 car explosions and the kidnapping of seven police officers,&#8221; the report said. &#8220;Riots have also broken out at several prisons, with reports that dozens of guards have been held by armed men.&#8221;
Intelligence officials believe the attacks were coordinated and orchestrated by Los Lobos as a potential warning to government leaders against transferring gang leaders to maximum-security prisons.
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🇪🇨 | URGENTE: Delincuentes irrumpieron en TC Televisión y secuestran a todos en vivo y directo en Guayaquil, Ecuador. <a href="https://t.co/ob1yleusOc">pic.twitter.com/ob1yleusOc</a>
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The increased chaos in the country comes as it continues to crack down on government officials who have been arrested for allegedly working to support drug traffickers.
The report said that the violence has increased sharply in recent years because the country has become &#8220;a critical cocaine transit point and gangs compete for control of drug routes and prisons.&#8221;
Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) responded to the images of violence unfolding on the streets of Ecuador by recounting his experience living in the country.
&#8220;Right now Ecuador is experiencing an all-out cartel takeover. They’re executing hostages, taking over prisons, and stormed a news station on live TV,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I used to live in Ecuador. My dad took an oil job there for a year and half while I was in middle school. Nothing like this was happening. Over the past 20 years cartels and drug traffickers have become far too powerful and more dangerous than ever.&#8221;

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The Biden administration has sent tens of millions of dollars to Latin American countries for programs that address “root causes” of illegal immigration, all as southern border crossings hit record highs. 
The Biden administration has spent at least $40 million on immigration-related projects in Latin America in fiscal year 2023 that are ostensibly supposed to help bring down illegal immigration from the region, according to a Daily Wire review of <a href="https://www.foreignassistance.gov/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">foreign spending data</a>. 
The projects have been part of the Biden administration’s strategy to pump money into the region with the goal of decreasing illegal immigration. As Biden has sent money abroad, Republican lawmakers have urged more funding for security measures at the southern border. Critics also have pointed to Biden&#8217;s loose asylum policies and revocation of Trump&#8217;s Remain in Mexico policy as key reasons for the skyrocketing border crossings. 
Ira Mehlman of the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), a nonprofit that advocates for solutions to uncontrolled immigration, told The Daily Wire that the actual root cause of the illegal immigration crisis is the Biden administration’s immigration policy. 
“The root cause of the surge of illegal immigration is the policies that the Biden administration put in place from day one, and continue to implement in spite of the fact that we’re seeing record numbers of people coming across the border. We seem to break a new record almost every month,” Mehlman said. 
One initiative rolled out in fiscal year 2023 was the Alliance for Root Causes and Opportunities project, which is designed to address “the root causes that influence people from Central America to migrate to the United States through Mexico,” according to the United States Agency for International Development, or USAID. 
Mexico was allocated $5 million in 2023 for the project, which was implemented through <a href="https://chemonics.com/projects/partnering-with-the-government-of-mexico-to-address-root-migration-causes-in-central-america/">Chemonics International</a>, a private international development company. Another $3 million commitment to Mexico was designated for “basic education,” and $2 million was for agriculture in Mexico. 
In 2023 alone, roughly 670,000 Mexicans crossed the southern border into the United States.
Another initiative, described by USAID as the “Irregular Migration Project,” sent millions of dollars to Guatemala, from where roughly 226,000 illegal immigrants into the United States have come. The purpose of the project is “addressing the root causes of irregular migration in Guatemala.”
Two grants, one for $8.5 million and the other for $2.5 million were allocated in fiscal year 2023 for Guatemala in the “good governance” sector. Another grant under the project was $2.2 million for “conflict mitigation and reconciliation,” while a fourth was $500,000 for “civil society.”
All the money is distributed with the help of the International Organization for Migration (IOM), the United Nations&#8217; immigration organization that <a href="https://www.iom.int/who-we-are">says</a> it is &#8220;dedicated to promoting humane and orderly migration for the benefit of all.” The IOM <a href="https://www.axios.com/2018/06/29/in-rebuke-international-organization-of-migration-rejects-trump-nominee">feuded</a> with former President Donald Trump by declining to seat his nominee to head the organization. 
USAID also works with IOM on multiple projects under the “Scholarships For Educational Opportunities” banner. 
“The project aims to mitigate irregular migration from El Salvador by increasing equitable access to formal educational opportunities for potential migrants and returnees to engender hope, prosperity, and positive self-worth in their lives,” the program&#8217;s description at USAID reads. 
In fiscal year 2023, $4 million was designated for “basic education” in El Salvador while $2.9 million was allocated for “higher education.” There were also two grants for “private sector competitiveness,” both worth roughly $1.5 million. 
Nearly 60,000 El Salvadorans illegally entered the United States in 2023.
Haiti, which has seen an epidemic of gang violence and civil disorder this year, was given two grants of $3.6 million and $2.7 million for “good governance” and “policies, regulations, and systems,” under the banner of “Humanitarian Assistance.” 
The justification for the project was rooted in the fact that tens of thousands of Haitians have arrived at the U.S. border. In 2023 alone, roughly 69,095 Haitians entered the United States through the southern border. 
“Since the end of August 2021, there are thousands of Haitians assembling in makeshift sites on the Mexican side of the border to wait while deciding whether to attempt entry into the U.S. carrying their belongings, the migrants have been traversing the ankle-deep river between Mexico and Texas. As of 17 September, there were about 13,700 new arrivals in Del Rio City,” the USAID project description says. 
“The International Organization of Migration (IOM) aims to support the improvement of reception facilities to better welcome migrants upon their return to Haiti, both in Port-Au-Prince and Cap-Haitian. This will enable key stakeholders involved in migrant assistance to be prepared for repatriations and stand ready to welcome migrants even when informed in a very short notice,” USAID added.
The United States also sent millions to the region in general, under one project with the purpose of “Assistance for Informed, Safe and Dignified Returns of Vulnerable Migrants in Participating Countries of the Americas,” according to USAID. This project was worth $2.5 million and implemented alongside the IOM.
In total, the United States allocated $1,781,452,241 on all aid projects in fiscal year 2023 for Latin American countries where hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants came from. This included $441,300,796 to Colombia (137,389 illegal crossings), $9,519,970 to Cuba (63,135 illegal crossings), $50,751,799 to Ecuador (106,635 illegal crossings), $145,002,715 to El Salvador (59,693 illegal crossings), $187,388,066 to Guatemala (225,998 illegal crossings), $331,549,853 to Haiti (69,095 illegal crossings), $151,007,802 to Honduras (213,853 illegal crossings), $112,633,591 to Mexico (671,128 illegal crossings), $27,111,714 to Nicaragua (16,690 illegal crossings), $119,346,269 to Peru (55,276 illegal crossings), and $205,839,666 to Venezuela (302,736 illegal crossings).
Neither the White House or the State Department responded to request for comment.
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The $1.7 billion total is just slightly under the $1.8 billion per year <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-administration-seeks-18-billion-over-decade-to-expand-border-wall-1515148381" target="_blank" rel="noopener">requested</a> by Trump over a ten year period to construct a border wall. While Mehlman said that funding for a complete border wall, more detention centers, and additional Border Patrol officers would be helpful, the number one priority needed to be taking away incentives to enter the U.S. illegally.
“The number one priority actually does not entail money, it is creating deterrence. The people who are coming are coming for rational reasons. They understand that if they get to the border there is very, very high probability that they will be allowed to remain here indefinitely. We need to change that perception,&#8221; he said. 
House Republicans visited the border this week calling for the Biden administration to clamp down on the crisis and secure the border. 
“We were shown firsthand how the President’s reckless open-border policies are devastating communities across the state,” House Speaker Mike Johnson said of the visit. “The Biden Administration is showing once again it is obviously their deliberate strategy to keep the border open and continue the chaos and humanitarian crisis their policies have created.”
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Daily Wire Editor Emeritus <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ben-shapiro" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ben Shapiro</a> said that leftist governments in Latin America will eventually crash into the “rocks of reality” as their socialist policies wreck their countries, in the latest episode of his YouTube show <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/you-should-be-worried-about-the-pink-wave" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Facts.”</a>
In the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpSfP_Xm708" target="_blank" rel="noopener">episode</a>, Shapiro pointed to the “wonderful” election of Right-leaning libertarian Javier Milei in Argentina as a sign that the leftist governments that had risen to power throughout the region during so-called Pink Waves were faltering.
“That Pink Wave isn’t an iron wall, as it was with Soviet-occupied Eastern Europe – it is popularly elected Leftist governments in South and Latin America that have increasingly pursued not only economic redistributionism and nationalism of industry, but outright tyranny and anti-Americanism,” Shapiro explained. 
Shapiro pointed out how the American press often talked of the danger of authoritarianism abroad while ignoring the threat of socialism, which has taken hold of many Latin American countries.
Throughout the rest of the episode, Shapiro explained the history of the first and second Pink Wave in Latin America and how it was propelled forward by the Sao Paolo Forum, a conference of leftist parties in the region that was founded in the 1990s to rebrand socialism and communism after the Soviet Union collapsed.
The first Pink Wave took place after the Cold War with leaders like Hugo Chavez taking power in Venezuela and Lula da Silva being elected in Brazil in 2003. This wave later floundered in the years following the Great Recession in 2008. However, after 2018, leftist parties again began to take back power in countries like Argentina, Bolivia, Peru, Honduras, and Chile.
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The consequences of leftist rule in these countries have been disastrous, Shapiro said. For example, countries like Venezuela and Argentina have faced rampant inflation, while corruption constantly plagues countries like Mexico and Bolivia.
“The pink tide that has risen, receded, and risen again will ultimately crash against the rocks of reality as it has in the past. Corruption and lack of rule of law create the preconditions for dissatisfaction with any government, but Left-wing governments in Latin and South America have channeled that dissatisfaction into anti-democratic centralization of power and impoverishment of their own citizenry,” Shapiro concluded, saying that he hoped that Milei’s election was only the beginning of a shift away from Left-wing politics in the region.
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Ben Shapiro Predicts Leftist Governments In Latin America Will Crash Into ‘Rocks Of Reality’

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Global Politics

Javier Milei

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Javier Milei is extremely scary.
That’s what the legacy media have decided: The newly-elected libertarian conservative leader of Argentina is absolutely frightening.
<a href="https://www.axios.com/2023/11/20/argentina-vote-milei-massa-presidential-runoff-election" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Axios</a> calls him a “far-right economist who’s been compared to former President Trump.” A <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/20/world/americas/javier-milei-argentina-trump.html#:~:text=Mr.%20Milei%2C%2053%2C%20has,peso%20with%20the%20U.S.%20dollar" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New York Times</a> headline reads, “Argentina Braces Itself for Its New ’Anarcho-Capitalist’ President,” and calls the election Argentina’s “Donald Trump moment.” The <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/08/14/javier-milei-argentina-presidential-election/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Washington Post</a> asks, “Who is Javier Milei, Argentina’s far-right president elect?” <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/now/video/argentina-elects-ring-wing-populist-javier-milei-as-new-president-198346309505" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NBC News</a> has called him a “controversial figure, known to his fans as ‘The Crazy’ and ‘The Wig,’ for his larger than life personality and hair.”
This, unsurprisingly, is not the way the press treated the election of former convict and Left-winger Lula de Silva in Brazil. “Brazil Elects Lula, a Leftist Former Leader, in a Rebuke of Bolsonaro,” the New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/10/30/world/brazil-presidential-election#:~:text=BRAS%C3%8DLIA%20%E2%80%94%20Voters%20in%20Brazil%20on,divisive%20four%20years%20in%20office" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported </a>last year. At the time, the <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/10/30/lula-da-silva-president-brazil/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Washington Post</a> asked, “Who is Lula? What to know about Brazil’s president.”
But Milei, as we’ve said, must be one scary character.
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So, what are his deeply frightening positions? He has called for vast cuts to Argentina’s government — a necessity, since Argentina has <a href="https://www.europarl.europa.eu/thinktank/en/document/EPRS_BRI(2023)753938#:~:text=In%20fact%2C%20since%202001%2C%20Argentina,of%20the%20COVID%2D19%20pandemic">defaulted</a> on its debts three times since 2001, has a $43 billion <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-10-06/the-imf-s-43-billion-argentina-problem-is-about-to-get-worse?embedded-checkout=true" target="_blank" rel="noopener">outstanding loan</a> to the International Monetary Fund, and now faces another default. They received a $57 billion <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/imfs-argentina-predicament-seek-reforms-tango-or-kill-music-2023-09-15/#:~:text=Just%20five%20years%20ago%2C%20Argentina,and%20a%20gaping%20budget%20deficit" target="_blank" rel="noopener">bailout</a> just five years ago. Thanks to out-of-control spending, Argentina has had to print pesos hand over fist, which is why, according to the Ministry of the Economy, total money supply in Argentina skyrocketed <a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/groundhog-day-for-deadbeat-argentina/ar-AA1eSfUV" target="_blank" rel="noopener">30.7% a year</a> from 2007 to 2022. The poverty rate in the country is 40%.
Milei comes into office promising serious cuts. His media appearances may be colorful, but that all serves a purpose: a determination to make massive changes to Argentina’s economic trajectory. Milei has promised to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QejTtxekdTw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">slash and burn</a> his way through government, cutting 11 of 19 departments.
He campaigned with a chainsaw he pledged he would use on the “<a href="https://ca.style.yahoo.com/style/argentina-president-javier-milei-wastes-193934153.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">parasitic state</a>.” He wants to draw closer to the United States and Israel, and away from China. 
Milei, in his inaugural address, pledged “radical reform.” That reform includes closing the central bank, the institution printing money hand over fist. Milei recognizes the reality: that inflation has crippled Argentina’s ability to recover, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/10/world/americas/argentina-peso-javier-mile.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">calling pesos</a> “trash” not “even good as manure.”
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All of this should be treated as good news. Argentina’s trajectory has been a total disaster area for decades, despite the glorification of Peronism at the hands of Hollywood. In fact, the markets are treating Milei’s election as they should: Argentine stocks and bonds have jumped on Milei’s election, mainly because he is the first leader of Argentina in generations who has a plan to actually avoid economic default.
Milei’s election should be treated by the United States as the possible opening of a new era in South and Latin America. Along with El Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele, a new wave of conservative governance may be building in the Global South. That would be incredible, given the so-called “Pink Wave” that has washed across the continent over the course of the last few years.
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So, why the heartburn?
Because the reality is that there are many in the United States and Europe, particularly on the political Left, who somehow feel more comfortable with the socialist radicalism of Lula De Silva, Gabriel Boric, and even Nicolas Maduro than with anyone who smacks of libertarianism or conservatism. That’s because Argentina is a living example of what happens when corporatism and social democracy are taken to their limits: the substitution of governments for markets, the overregulation of industry in pursuit of social redistributionism, the attempts to create autarky via tariff protections and trade restrictions — the endless populist promise that if all power is given to the government to protect “the people,” all will be well. That promise always results in privation and misallocation, in tyranny and poverty.
Milei’s victory represents that realization. So Leftists label Milei the worst slur they can think of: Trumpian.
Now, the media and the political Left will attempt to shovel all of Argentina’s failures on Milei’s shoulders. Milei still faces a partly-Peronist legislature, as well as a court system stacked in favor of Leftist foolishness — the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Horacio Rosatti recently said that any attempt to dollarize would be unconstitutional.
This means that Milei’s power may be curbed; he still faces entrenched economic problems, including a dearth of valuable currency to move toward dollarization. He will require an infusion of foreign capital in order to right the ship in Argentina — and then, if he comes up short, capitalism and economic liberalism will be blamed for the failures of Peronism.
That’s always the pattern: Corporatists ruin economies, and then capitalism gets the blame.
But Milei can succeed. Investors ought to look South and put their money where their mouth is to ensure that Argentina realizes its potential as a massive source of prosperity, wealth, and power — and that alliance with the United States grows stronger as a result.

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The Left Weeps Over Argentina’s Javier Milei

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The daughter of scandal-plagued <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/hunter-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hunter Biden</a> reportedly lived in the White House near the time that she represented a foreign nation.
The New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/09/30/hunter-bidens-daughter-represented-peru-while-living-in-the-white-house/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that 29-year-old Naomi Biden was a &#8220;lawyer on behalf of the government of Peru around the same time she was living at the White House&#8221; with her grandfather, President Joe Biden.
According to the Post, Naomi Biden began working for Arnold &amp; Porter around the time that Joe Biden was sworn into office and, in September of 2021, she &#8220;appeared in a filing disclosing that she was providing legal representation for the government of Peru in a case brought by Worth Capital Holdings 27 LLC, which claimed the country was interfering in their operation of an oil refinery in the southern Amazon.&#8221;
The company sought over half a billion dollars in damages.
Naomi Biden lived at the White House from August 2022 to March 2023, the report said. She married attorney Peter Neal in November 2022.
The Post noted that a representative for Naomi Biden claimed that she only worked on the case in September 2021.
&#8220;Naomi Biden’s international arbitration work doesn’t include matters involving the United States government — she is a junior lawyer and a member of international arbitration teams involving private sector plaintiffs,&#8221; a spokesman for Arnold &amp; Porter told the Post. &#8220;She doesn’t discuss confidential client work with anyone inside or outside the White House.&#8221;
The report noted that the company appears to have undergone great lengths to shield Naomi Biden, whose title is “international arbitration associate,” from the public eye as she does not have a public website page like the other lawyers at the firm do.
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Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY) responded to the story, &#8220;Everywhere we look it seems there are major conflicts of interest in which the Biden family leveraged their name, access, and patriarch’s power to benefit personal business dealings.&#8221;
&#8220;All of this must continue to be investigated and exposed – perhaps Biden’s granddaughter should be the next person to come before the Oversight Committee,&#8221; she added.

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Hunter Biden's Daughter Lived In White House Near The Time When She Represented Foreign Nation: Report

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Right-wing <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ecuador" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ecuadorian</a> presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio was assassinated on Wednesday after being shot multiple times after leaving a political rally.
Villavicencio&#8217;s family confirmed his death, according to <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-08-10/ecuador-presidential-candidate-villavicencio-shot-dead-expreso#xj4y7vzkg" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bloomberg News</a>. He was killed at a political event located at a school in Ecuador&#8217;s capital city of Quito.
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<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Ecuador?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Ecuador</a> Momento exacto del asesinato de <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/FernandoVillavicencio?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#FernandoVillavicencio</a> <a href="https://t.co/FmUecHM0dQ">pic.twitter.com/FmUecHM0dQ</a>
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Villavicencio, a journalist, was an opponent of former leftist President Rafael Correa and was sentenced to 18 months in prison back in 2014 for allegedly slandering Correa, according to a <a href="https://www.bloomberglinea.com/english/what-are-fernando-villavicencios-proposals-as-presidential-candidate-in-ecuador/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> from Bloomberg&#8217;s Latin America news division. He remained a fugitive for three years and was granted political asylum in Peru where he stayed until 2017.
After returning the country, he went to Ecuador&#8217;s attorney general and accused the government of misusing public resources in the &#8220;commercialization of crude oil between Ecuador and private company Petrochina,&#8221; which he estimated resulted in billions of dollars in loss for the country.
The report said that his campaign&#8217;s theme was building safety in the country by focusing on five pillars: citizen, food, economic, environmental, and health.
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&#8220;In the 2021 elections, he was elected a national congress member for the so-called Honesty Alliance, and in September 2022 he was the victim of an attack at his residence,&#8221; the report added. &#8220;As an investigative journalist, he has also contributed with information to denounce cases of corruption in oil, mining, electricity, telecommunications and criminal structures.&#8221;

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Four children who were missing after a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/plane-crash" target="_blank" rel="noopener">plane crash</a> in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/colombia" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Colombia</a> were found alive and rescued after 40 days alone. 
The children who ranged in age from just 11 months to 13 years old <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/10/colombian-children-found-alive-five-weeks-after-amazon-jungle-plane-crash" target="_blank" rel="noopener">were found</a> in a remote area of the Amazon jungle in Colombia after surviving storms and avoiding dangerous animals and rebel soldiers. A plane carrying the children, their mother, and two other adults had crashed on May 1, killing everyone but the children. 
“They’ve given us an example of total survival that will go down in history,” said Colombian President Gustavo Petro. “A joy for the whole country!”
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Gloria a los soldados de las <a href="https://twitter.com/FuerzasMilCol?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@FuerzasMilCol</a>, a las comunidades indígenas e instituciones que hicieron parte de la <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Operaci%C3%B3nEsperanza?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#OperaciónEsperanza</a>&quot; <a href="https://t.co/LO3BPldLgD">pic.twitter.com/LO3BPldLgD</a>
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“Their learning from indigenous families and their learning of living in the jungle has saved them,” Petro said of the children, who are ethnically Huitoto. “They are children of the jungle and now they are children of Colombia.”
The <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/09/americas/colombia-children-amazon-found-intl-latam/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">rescued children were</a>: Lesly Jacobombaire Mucutuy, 13,  Soleiny Jacobombaire Mucutuy, 9, Tien Ranoque Mucutuy, 4, and Cristin Ranoque Mucutuy, just 11 months old. 
Rescuers were sent out after the pilot of the plane issued a call for help due to engine failure. Rescuers found the bodies of the adults, but the children were gone leaving only footprints and other small signs of life. 
For days following the crash, a team combed over a jungle area of about 125 square miles. The team included 150 soldiers and 200 locals, according to the Guardian. 
“This isn’t a needle in a haystack, it’s a tiny flea in a rug because they keep moving,” said Brigadier General Pedro Sanchez “But if, God forbid, they were dead we would have already have found them, because they would be still.”
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Before the children were found, Sanchez said he had a “100% expectation” that his team would be able to rescue the children. 
On Friday, rescuers shouted “Miracle! Miracle! Miracle! Miracle!” as they found footprints that led them to the children. The children were then flown to a hospital for treatment.
“We hope that tomorrow they will be treated at the military hospital,” Defense Minister Ivan Velasquez said after the discovery. 
María Fátima Valencia, the children’s grandmother said she was “going to hug all of them” and “thank everyone.” The family lives in Villavicencio, a city in central Colombia not far from Bogota. 
“I’m going to encourage them, I’m going to push them forward, I need them here,” she said.

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A man caught with an 800-year-old mummy he called his &#8220;girlfriend&#8221; not only got arrested, but also surprised when it turned out the corpse&#8217;s male gender had been kept under wraps.
Julio Cesar Bermejo, the 26-year-old man who Peruvian police say had possession of the mummy in a food delivery bag, called it his “spiritual girlfriend” whose name was “Juanita.” He claims the mummy, which is believed to be 600 to 800 years old, has been in his possession since his father gave it to him and has been in his family for at least 30 years. He failed to clarify how his father came into possession of the corpse.
“It sleeps in my bedroom, with me,” Bermejo <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/03/01/peruvian-mummy-found-in-deliverymans-cooler-bag/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> a local news outlet in an interview. “There’s my bed, the TV set and next to it, there’s Juanita. I take care of it. It’s like, if you’ll pardon the expression, as if it were my spiritual girlfriend.” 
According to officials, “Juanita” is actually a he. The mummy is believed to have been an approximately 45 year-old-male who stood at 4 feet, 11 inches tall, and died sometime between 600 and 800 years ago. “It’s not a Juanita, it’s a Juan,” an expert with Peru’s culture ministry <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/03/01/peruvian-mummy-found-in-deliverymans-cooler-bag/">said</a>.
Bermejo brought the mummy to have drinks with two friends at a deserted park in Puno, Peru, a city in the southeast of the country on the shore of Lake Titicaca, authorities say. He <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-64797080" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly</a> brought “Juanita” to show off to his friends. Police were alerted to the scene and discovered the mummy in the fetal position inside a red food delivery bag. The Ministry of Culture is now in custody of the mummy, <a href="https://www.gob.pe/institucion/cultura/noticias/717899-puno-ministerio-de-cultura-recupero-bien-cultural-prehispanico-identificado-como-una-momia" target="_blank" rel="noopener">labeling</a> it a “cultural asset,&#8221; promising to &#8220;protect and preserve the heritage.&#8221;
Bermejo was also taken into custody over the weekend. Authorities are <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-64797080" target="_blank" rel="noopener">investigating</a> potential crimes committed against the cultural heritage of Peru.
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The way the mummy was found — in a fetal position and wrapped in bandages — is consistent with pre-Hispanic mummies, according to BBC News. Mummification in Peru was common before the Spanish arrived and practiced by multiple cultures over 7,000 years ago, the American Museum of Natural History <a href="https://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/mummies/peru#:~:text=Mummification%20was%20practiced%20by%20numerous,to%20their%20loved%20ones'%20graves." target="_blank" rel="noopener">notes</a>. They also say that it was common to keep mummies at home and bring them to festivals at the time.
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A group of people who lived in today&#8217;s Peru and Chile &#8212; the Chinchorros &#8212; were the first group to practice mummification, thousands of years before the Egyptians, the museum states. In late 2021, a mummy dating between 800 to 1,200 years ago was unearthed in Lima, the country’s capital. According to CNN, it was wrapped in rope and had its hands covering its face. In February of last year, archeologists <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/scientists-find-14-pre-inca-mummies-likely-sacrificed-2022-2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">discovered</a> the mummies of six children and eight adults in Lima.
Under national heritage laws, &#8220;Juanita&#8221; is now the property of the state. In its press <a href="https://www.gob.pe/institucion/cultura/noticias/717899-puno-ministerio-de-cultura-recupero-bien-cultural-prehispanico-identificado-como-una-momia" target="_blank" rel="noopener">release</a>, the culture ministry asked citizens to &#8220;actively collaborate in the defense and protection of our precious heritage, notifying our entity of any finding or attack on movable or immovable cultural heritage.&#8221;

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On the afternoon of December 28, Luis Fernando Camacho was riding in his car and was a half block from his home when an unmarked white van pulled in front of him. Armed men dressed in black jumped out. They rushed Camacho’s car, smashing his windows and demanding he get out.
Camacho calmly replied, “I’m here. You don’t need to do any more.”
The men responded with violence, throwing Camacho to the ground. They handcuffed his arms behind his back and drove him away.
Not having any more information, one would be forgiven for thinking that Camacho must be a drug kingpin or some other nefarious actor. But no, he is the current governor of the department of Santa Cruz, Bolivia.
Bolivia has nine &#8216;departments,&#8217; their version of states, and Santa Cruz is the largest and most populous of the departments. Not only that, but it is also the richest and most productive department in Bolivia. In 2021, Camacho won his election with 55% of the vote and became governor of the department.
Camacho came to prominence politically in 2019. Protests had erupted throughout the nation in response to alleged overt electoral fraud. The common refrain in Santa Cruz during the protests was, “We will not be Venezuela!” Camacho took on a leadership role in the opposition to then-President, Evo Morales.
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With the country roiled in protests, Camacho traveled to La Paz, the capital, and went to the Government Palace with a Bible and a letter of resignation for the president to sign, but Morales had already fled.
Many high-ranking officials resigned, including the president and the vice president. The Bolivian constitution was followed to find the line of succession and Jeanine Añez, the second vice president of the Senate, became interim president.
But even though most of the leadership resigned and fled, their socialist party remained in control of many of the systems of power in Bolivia.
In 2020, elections were held, and the socialist party won back the presidency. A few months after regaining power, they arrested the interim president Añez, and she remains incarcerated to this day. She has been accused of inciting the supposed coup d’état of Evo Morales with additional counts of terrorism and sedition.  
And now, they have taken Camacho prisoner as well. They have sequestered the opposition leader to the socialist government. The men dressed in black with assault rifles driving an unmarked van were actually police officers sent by the federal government to arrest Camacho. Allegedly, no arrest warrant was presented at the time of his sudden arrest, but <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-64113400" target="_blank" rel="noopener">an arrest warrant was drafted back in October.</a> The civic leaders in the city of Santa Cruz, however, do not like to call it an arrest since he is the rightfully elected governor of the department of Santa Cruz. Instead, they call it a political kidnapping.
In response to the arrest, the people of Santa Cruz immediately started protesting and demanding the release of the governor they elected. They have said that the federal government is politically persecuting the entire department of Santa Cruz by this arrest and they are willing to defend democracy no matter the cost.
As the protests continued, there were increasing claims of abuse and violence from the police against the protesters. Videos have surfaced of police lighting cars on fire, destroying street lights, and even lighting their own motorcycles on fire. The claim is that if the police can demonstrate violence on the part of the people of Santa Cruz, then they can bring in the military to turn Santa Cruz into a police state.
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Burned out cars now litter the streets, and the city looks as though a war has already started. Tear gas is used so often that neighborhoods have started putting out barrels with water, ready to extinguish the grenades.
And yet, in the face of this oppression and violence, the people of Santa Cruz continue to protest and march, saying that they will not stop until the political prisoners are released. At this point, though, it does not seem like the federal government is budging, either. The government is attempting to intimidate and terrorize the people so that nobody would dare to stand up to them.
This creates a very dangerous situation for the people of Bolivia. When tensions are high, any little mistake can cause an incredible amount of loss of life. Governor Camacho has a blood disorder for which he requires medical treatment. If, by accident, Camacho were to die, the Bolivian people would not believe that it was an accident. They would believe he was murdered by the government. This could quickly devolve into an actual civil war.
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That is the tight-rope that the civic leaders in Santa Cruz are attempting to traverse. They are attempting to balance peacefully protesting to obtain the release of the governor that they elected. While at the same time, if they push too hard and can be blamed for some violence, then the government will have a pretext for sending the military in to oppress the population.
But the Bolivian people have done it before, and they can do it again. They joined together with one voice to protest socialist leader and dictator Evo Morales, and he had to resign. The people of Santa Cruz need the rest of Bolivia to join them, and they have started to do just that. More and more cities and departments are protesting and marching in solidarity with Santa Cruz, but more importantly, against oppression. Even as the government tries to scare the population into submission, the Bolivian people are coming together once again to fight against this socialist tyranny.
Michael Warren lived in Santa Cruz, Bolivia for five years and continues to have close contact with family and friends there. He recently released a new book titled Live Deliberately. A professional land surveyor, he lives in Sacramento, California with his wife, Esther, and their two kids, Daniel and Zoey.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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Thousands of tourists have been stranded in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/south-america" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Peru</a> due to ongoing political protests in the South American nation, according to a local mayor. 
The tourists have been stranded in Cusco, a key stop on the way to the ancient Incan city of Machu Picchu, a popular tourist destination, <a href="https://twitter.com/AFP/status/1603795635223904256" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to Darwin Baca, the mayor of Machu Picchu. The visitors’ predicament comes as Peru faces violent protests over the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/leftist-peruvian-president-impeached-after-vowing-to-dissolve-congress" target="_blank" rel="noopener">removal</a> of leftist former President Pedro Castillo after he attempted to dissolve Congress. 
&#8220;There are 5,000 tourists stranded in the city of Cusco, they are in their hotels waiting for flights to restart,&#8221; Baca <a href="https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20221216-protests-strand-5-000-tourists-in-machu-picchu-gateway-city" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. 
In addition to those stranded in Cusco, some tourists have been stranded in Machu Picchu, which is located high in the Andes mountains. &#8220;We have asked the government to help us and establish helicopter flights in order to evacuate the tourists,&#8221; <a href="https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/machu-picchu-tourists-stranded-amid-protests/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Baca. 
PeruRail this week paused its trip up to the ancient city due to the violence, though it said it would attempt to help those stranded get to safety. &#8220;We regret the inconvenience that these announcements generate for our passengers; however, they are due to situations beyond the control of our company and seek to prioritize the safety of passengers and workers,&#8221; the company said. 
Other tourists in the country, including children and elderly people, have been stranded as well, with some reportedly receiving violent threats from protesters. Sixty tourists attempting to go to Bolivia have been stuck in the mountainous town of Checacupe. 
Costa Rican-Venezuelan alpinist Wilmaris Villarroel <a href="https://archive.ph/MA2cF#selection-685.0-685.57">told</a> Reuters that his group had been threatened by protestors. “They said if we tried to pass they would burn us alive,&#8221; he claimed. 
&#8220;We&#8217;re not to blame for what&#8217;s happening in the country,&#8221; he added. &#8220;It is a beautiful nation and we just want to continue our journey.&#8221;
Villarroel’s group includes people from Argentina, Chile, France, Japan, England, and the U.S. 
Machu Picchu was<a href="https://connecticuthistory.org/hiram-bingham-iii-machu-picchu-explorer-and-politician/"> introduced</a> to the world by explorer and future Connecticut Republican Senator Hiram Bingham III, who discovered the ancient ruins alongside some local farmers during his Yale Peruvian Expedition from 1911 to 1915. 
The ancient city was a mountain hideaway for the Inca Empire, which dominated the region from around 1400 until the Spanish under Francisco Pizarro conquered them in 1532. The site gets over 1.5 million visitors a year, some of whom hike up the mountain.
The State Department is recommending that Americans reconsider travel to Peru, <a href="https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/traveladvisories/traveladvisories/peru-travel-advisory.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">placing</a> it at a level three travel advisory. At least 15 people have been killed and dozens more wounded in violent protests over the political unrest following Castillo’s imprisonment.

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5,000 Tourists Stranded Near Machu Picchu As Peru Rocked By Protests, Mayor Says

Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei, a conservative, reportedly survived a shooting attack on his entourage Saturday afternoon.
&#8220;Shots fired at the presidential delegation in the village of La Laguna de Jacaltenango, Huehuetenango,&#8221; radio station Sonora es la Noticia (SN) <a href="https://twitter.com/ArnulfoAgustinG/status/1553475100116221954">reported</a>. &#8220;There are wounded but President Alejandro Giammattei is unharmed and safe.&#8221;
Giammattei, a former prisons director, won the country&#8217;s presidential race in 2019 against former fist lady Sandra Torres.
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Conservative President Of Latin American Nation Survives Shooting Attack, Spanish Media Reports

Conservative President Of Guatemala Survives Shooting Attack, Spanish Media Reports

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