China on the move in America’s backyard, Part II

China on the move in America’s backyard, Part II

Special to WorldTribune Commentary by Laurence F Sanford, April 12, 2023 The Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) unrestricted warfare against the United States is gaining footholds in Central and Latin America. More effective than direct kinetic military attacks are economic, political, and law warfare against the  “villain” United States. “Part I” discussed gains in Honduras and […]

Texas is flyover country for Kamala Harris; Guatemala gives hostile reception to Team Biden agenda

Texas is flyover country for Kamala Harris; Guatemala gives hostile reception to Team Biden agenda

Analysis by WorldTribune Staff, June 13, 2021 Rough week. After months of inaction after being appointed border czar by Team Biden, Kamala Harris journeyed to Guatemala and Mexico this week in an effort to try to explain the administration’s border policy. When Team Biden’s cheering section at CNN runs an analysis under the headline “Kamala […]

Send more voters: New order ‘entices’ Central Americans to head North

Send more voters: New order ‘entices’ Central Americans to head North

Analysis by WorldTribune Staff, February 3, 2021 Joe Biden’s onslaught of executive orders continued on Tuesday with a decree that offers aid to Central American nations while vowing to take in many of the area’s most productive young citizens. The order put together by Team Biden states: “We will work closely with civil society, international […]

Last straw: In protest of runaway government corruption, Guatemalans burn their Congress

Last straw: In protest of runaway government corruption, Guatemalans burn their Congress

by WorldTribune Staff, November 22, 2020 Angry protesters who say they have had enough of what they call a series of corrupt government policies broke into Guatemala’s Congress and burned part of the building on Saturday. The protesters said the last straw was a move by President Alejandro Giammattei and the legislature approving in secret […]

Guatemala rescinds agreement to allow Planned Parenthood into country

Guatemala rescinds agreement to allow Planned Parenthood into country

by WorldTribune Staff, November 10, 2020 Guatemala’s pro-life president has declared he will not allow Planned Parenthood to operate in the country. “I recognize life from conception and therefore I will not tolerate in my administration any movement that violates what is established in our Political Constitution of the Republic, that goes against the values […]

Guatemalan official: U.S. Democrats’ socialist policies driving migrant crisis

Guatemalan official: U.S. Democrats’ socialist policies driving migrant crisis

by WorldTribune Staff, August 29, 2019 Unemployment and poverty resulting from a failed “socialist corrupt ideology” imposed on Guatemala by U.S. Democrats is the real catalyst of the ongoing migrant crisis, a Guatemalan government official said. “It goes back to the policies of failure that people have tried to impose on Guatemala. I’m talking about […]

Baltimore’s murder rate higher than those of Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala

Baltimore’s murder rate higher than those of Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala

by WorldTribune Staff, July 31, 2019 The murder rate in Baltimore is 56 per 100,000 residents. That is more than the murder rates in the Northern Triangle countries of Central America — El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras — an analysis said. The Princeton Policy Advisors analysis reported the murder rate in El Salvador is 50 […]

President prevails, finally see good news on border policies

President prevails, finally see good news on border policies

by WorldTribune Staff, July 30, 2019 While the Democrat-controlled House split town for summer recess on July 26, the White House noted that President Donald Trump was working to secure the border — and winning. Trump on July 26 secured an agreement with Guatemala to have migrants apply for asylum there rather than in the […]

Rand: Human trafficking is multi-billion dollar business for crime bosses, gangs

Rand: Human trafficking is multi-billion dollar business for crime bosses, gangs

by WorldTribune Staff, June 12, 2019 More than 60 percent of illegal immigrants pay a trafficker to get them into the United States, according to a new Rand Corporation report. In Central American nations, crime lords, gangs, and small-time operators make up to $2.3 billion a year moving illegals across the border, making it one […]

War: One percent of Honduras, Guatemala entered U.S. since September; ‘Families’ legally released

War: One percent of Honduras, Guatemala entered U.S. since September; ‘Families’ legally released

by WorldTribune Staff, May 9, 2019 The hundreds of thousands of immigrants who have entered the U.S. since September include more than 1 percent of the entire populations of Honduras and Guatemala, according to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). “The current migration flows, especially of vulnerable families and children, from Central America through Mexico, […]

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