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Sovereign state in Central America
Comparisons between Donald Trump’s actions and Adolf Hitler’s rise before World War II surface repeatedly in recent commentary and scholarship, with analysts pointing to overlapping tactics—nationalis...
Different compilations of 2024-era data point to very different “highest” and “lowest” rape‑per‑capita rankings because national legal definitions, reporting practices and recent law changes make dire...
Presidents have repeatedly deployed U.S. forces abroad without a specific new congressional authorization since the War Powers Resolution (WPR) of 1973, relying on , and then notifying Congress under ...
Presidents have repeatedly sent U.S. forces, including Marines, into combat or combat-like operations without a prior formal declaration of war by Congress; Justice Department and congressional-histor...
Canada ranks highly on many global measures — for example it tied for #1 in the Country RepTrak/“Most Loved Country” sentiment survey and sits near the top of reputation and freedom rankings — yet it ...
Most presidents since the War Powers Resolution’s passage in 1973 have resisted or tested it; Congress passed the law over President Richard Nixon’s veto in 1973 . Major modern presidents — including ...
Most recent reporting and studies repeatedly list a small, overlapping set of countries — Australia, New Zealand, Iceland, and several South American nations (notably Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, Parag...
Drug smuggling in the Caribbean Sea concentrates along maritime corridors connecting South American production zones and Central American transits to consumer markets in North America and Europe, with...
Most reporting and government analyses say cocaine from South America reaches the United States through a handful of maritime corridors: the eastern Pacific corridor up the Pacific coast through Centr...
Courts and government agencies can compel ISPs and VPN providers to disclose user data through subpoenas, search warrants and other orders — sometimes sealed or accompanied by gag orders — and through...
The United States has long alleged that Nicolás Maduro and top Venezuelan officials led a transnational criminal enterprise responsible for large-scale drug trafficking, narco‑terrorism, money‑launder...
The Madrid Charter is a 2020 manifesto produced by the Disenso Foundation linked to Spain’s Vox party that frames a transatlantic struggle against what it calls a resurgent “communist” threat in Ibero...
The United States, under President Trump, ordered a military operation that struck Venezuela, seized President Nicolás Maduro and transported him to New York, and publicly signaled an intention to “ru...
Caribbean islands and territories most frequently identified as transshipment hubs include the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Puerto Rico, the Leeward eastern islands like Aruba and Curaçao, and parts of ...
ICE and related agencies did carry out removals in 2025 that included people who had sought asylum or held refugee-related claims, but precise counts of remain contested because public datasets are in...
Foreign occupations across Latin America—from covert CIA‑backed coups in Guatemala to overt U.S. military operations in Panama and repeated early‑20th‑century occupations of Caribbean states—offer a c...
There is no standing Supreme Court decision that directly blesses or forbids the Trump administration’s January 2026 military operation in Venezuela; what exists instead are prior high‑court precedent...
Since 2019, the public record contains a mix of explicit Pentagon testimony that the Defense Department drafts contingency plans broadly and formal policy documents focused on Arctic posture, but it l...
The U.S. seizure of Venezuela’s president and the accompanying military strikes have prompted sharp legal debate: many legal analysts say the operation likely violated international law and may have e...
Commercial VPN logging policies materially change how investigators can trace Tor users: if a VPN keeps connection or activity logs, law enforcement can subpoena those records to link an IP to a user;...