*runs in the room*

 

Okay, I got this.  They called me in like, ten minutes ago.   So here is the news from down south!

Guatemala:  Trump cuts aid and starves Guatemalans.

Quilinco sits deep in Guatemala’s western highlands, in an overwhelmingly agrarian region where poverty is high and child malnutrition rates hover around 70%. The region also boasts some of Guatemala’s highest migration rates to the United States. Local farmers say climate change is making it increasingly difficult to get by and is one of the factors pushing people to head north.

But Quilinco has also benefited from a U.S.-funded program to help farmers adapt and improve their food security. It’s a place where one agricultural aid project’s impact — and the stakes of cutting such aid, as the Trump administration did this past spring — can be seen firsthand.

To get there, I rode a bus for five hours from Guatemala City and then got a ride in a pickup truck for another hour. The truck bounced up a dusty dirt road that wound up the mountains, through pine trees and a patchwork of little fields of corn and broccoli.

Virtually everyone in the town makes a living as a farmer, planting corn in the summer for subsistence. In winter, many also plant vegetables such as snow peas and potatoes for export to the United States.

Farmers and scientists say climate change has been making agriculture more difficult. This year, the problem has been drought. Rain patterns have been more unpredictable, and storms have been stronger. Two years ago, a rare spring hailstorm shredded García Ramos’ corn plants, and he lost the entire crop. In other years, hurricanes have left him with nothing

Columbia:  A plan agreed upon by Columbia and eight other Latin American countries to convert their economies to run on 70% renewable energy.  This is twice that of the EU.  No mention of mass starvation or economic migration in the article.

In Bolivia….meh, who cares?  Okay, fine.  This one is funny.

Trump to Honduran migrants:  “Go back to the shithole you came from.”  (No, not really)

The Trump administration signed an asylum agreement with Honduras that could force asylum-seekers to seek protection in one of the most dangerous countries in the world instead of the United States, the latest agreement with a Central American country aimed at curbing migration at the southern border.

The U.S. signed the asylum agreement with Honduras’ foreign minister of affairs, a senior official with the Department of Homeland Security said during a news teleconference Wednesday afternoon.

The accord would allow the U.S. to send asylum-seekers from the southern border to Honduras to seek relief in a country with one of the highest murder rates in the world.

Breaking news:  Rudy Guilianni subpoenaed by the House.  This is not Mexican related.

More breaking news:  Trump now colluding with Australia!   This is also not Mexican related.