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Month: August 2022

Blinken draws distinctions between US and Russia as he seeks to make case for US partnership in Africa

By Jennifer Hansler, CNN US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday drew firm distinctions between the United States and Russia as he sought to make the case that the US is the better partner for countries in Africa. In a speech about the Biden administration’s “strategy for Sub-Saharan Africa,” delivered in Pretoria, South Africa,

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¿Por qué la espada de Bolívar es tan importante para Colombia? Una historia atravesada por la lucha de la independencia y la guerrilla del M-19

Ángela Reyes Haczek (CNN Español) — Sacar la espada de Simón Bolívar de la Casa de Nariño, llevarla a la plaza de Bolívar y presentarla ante las más de 100.000 personas que estaban allí para su toma de posesión: esta fue la primera orden de Gustavo Petro, el primer presidente de izquierda de Colombia, luego

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New Yorker: Milley was set to excoriate Trump in unreleased resignation letter drafted after Lafayette Square photo-op

By Shania Shelton, CNN In the wake of then-President Donald Trump’s infamous photo-op at the height of the George Floyd protests, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley penned a lengthy and vociferous critique of Trump in a resignation letter he ultimately never sent, The New Yorker reported on Monday. On June

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