The International Monetary Fund reported on Monday that Venezuela’s crippling inflation could top 1 million percent by the end of the year, as its economy continues to worsen. The South American nation finds itself in a political and economic crisis that has led to more than a million fleeing the country since 2015. “We expect […]
A Minimum-Wage Worker in Venezuela Could Afford 5 Cups of Coffee Each Month–And Nothing Else…
Five million Venezuelan bolivars is the equivalent of $1.45. It’s also roughly a minimum-wage worker’s entire monthly salary in the South American country. Thanks to stunning inflation, it now takes 1 million bolivars to buy a cup of coffee in a Venezuelan cafe, Bloomberg reports. That’s one-fifth of Venezuela’s monthly minimum wage, and a 10,000-bill […]
Trump Delivers First Remarks After Supreme Court Victory Supporting Travel Restrictions…
TRUMP TRAVEL BAN UPHELD…
The Supreme Court today handed a major victory to the Trump administration. By a vote of 5-4, the justices rejected a challenge to President Donald Trump’s September 2017 order – often referred to as the “travel ban” – restricting immigration to the United States by citizens of eight countries, most (but not all) of which […]
Profound Vindication…
SCOTUS Ruling: Trump, President of the United States, Et Al. v Hawaii Et Al…
Predictable Win…
Justice Sotomayer’s ‘Profound regret, I dissent’…
President Trump Welcomes Joshua Holt Back to the U.S…
This evening President Trump welcomed home Joshua Holt, a young man who had been imprisoned in Venezuela for nearly two years. Mr. Holt and his family are from Utah. The family, the State Department team and a group of U.S. politicians who participated in the negotiations for his release, held a short Oval Office press […]
Human Rights Activist Files RICO Suit Against Fusion GPS Founders…
A prominent human rights activist is suing two of the founders of Fusion GPS and several Venezuelan businessmen under a statute usually associated with the Mafia. Thor Halvorssen, the president of the Human Rights Foundation, claims that Glenn Simpson and Peter Fritsch, two former Wall Street Journal reporters who founded Fusion, engaged in a conspiracy […]