Venezuela’s Accelerating Descent to Socialist Misery
Nations usually don’t suffer overnight economic collapse. Indeed, Adam Smith was right about the ability of a country to survive and withstand lots of bad public policy. But at some point, as a nation gravitates More...
Venezuela is world’s ‘Most Miserable’ country again
The 2016 Misery Index shows that Venezuela ranks the “most miserable country” for the second year in a row. According to economist at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. He is also More...
Obama administration betrays Israel with UN Security Council vote, noting using veto
The UN Security Council passed a resolution betraying Israel by condemning the building of homes and businesses within its borders. Fourteen of the 15 nations approved it and the United States-refusing to veto it-abstained. The More...
Venezuela: Violent crime, shortages prompt travel warning
The U.S. Department of State warns U.S. citizens against travel to Venezuela due to violent crime, social unrest, and pervasive food and medicine shortages. Image/CIA All U.S. direct-hire personnel and their families More...
Mike Lee, Marco Rubio speak out against OAS, funding ‘cultural imperialism’ in Central and South America
The Organization of American States (OAS) is funding “cultural imperialism” related to abortion and marriage in Central and South America, according to Senators Mike Lee, R-UT, and Marco Rubio, R-FL, in a new More...
Venezuela: The tragedy of socialism in real time
Back in May, then Democratic presidential hopeful and devout socialist, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders was asked about what was happening in Venezuela, a socialist country teetering on collapse. Image/CIA In an More...
How Can We Trust People to Protect Us if They Can’t Even Protect Their Computers?
With the presidential race well and truly on, it seems the country is divided. We have certain presidential candidates spewing true hate speech and losing support even from their own party members while being stripped More...
Rev Majed el Shafie interview: ISIS, dangers of Islam and solutions to improve human rights
One Free World International founder Rev. Majed el Shafie is one of the world’s leaders in fighting for human rights, speaking out about the global persecution of Christians and the struggles to strike peace More...
Dominican Republic chikungunya case count exceeds 250,000
Despite all the efforts the Dominican Republic Health Ministry have taken to get the chikungunya outbreak in the country under control, the number of cases continue to increase, and sometimes increase greatly, More...
Locally acquired dengue fever reported in Miami-Dade County
Florida Department of Health in Miami-Dade County officials received confirmation of the first locally acquired case of dengue Fever in Miami-Dade County in 2014 on Wednesday, according to a health department press More...
Paraguay reports first chikungunya case
The Paraguay Health Ministry has issued a public alert after the discovery of the country’s first imported chikungunya case, according to a Prensa Latina report (computer translated). Aedes aegyptiImage/CDC According More...
Chikungunya in the Caribbean: ‘Locally acquired’ cases top 260,000, more than half from Dominican Republic
The number of autochthonous chikungunya cases in the Caribbean shot up by a whopping 70,000 as the total cases recorded in Central America, the Latin Caribbean and non-Latin Caribbean now exceeds 260,000, according More...
Edward Snowden and the NSA one year later
It’s important to reflect on the year that NSA monitoring of all Americans became public. Business Insider detailed a list of the facts we’ve learned from Edward Snowden and the subsequent leaked documents More...
Venezuela reports imported chikungunya case
The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela is reporting an imported case of chikungunya virus in a traveler returning from the Dominican Republic, according to an El Universal report yesterday (computer translated). The More...
Florida reports 10 imported chikungunya cases in 2014
The number of mosquito borne infectious agents spans a plethora of viruses (dengue , chikungunya, West Nile virus, Eastern Equine encephalitis virus and St. Louis encephalitis virus and parasites (malaria and filariasis). More...
Venezuela: Dengue fever cases up a third compared to 2013
The number of dengue fever cases in the South American country has increased by 37 percent in 2014, as compared to the same period in 2013, according to an El Universal report Wednesday. Aedes aegypti Image/CDC During More...
Chikungunya in the Caribbean update
The chikungunya outbreak in the Caribbean and Latin America continues to roll on with increases in cases in most affected areas. The latest numbers released by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control More...
North Cotabato beauty, Mary Jean Lastimosa, crowned Miss Universe Philippines 2014
The competition was stiff last night at the Smart Araneta Coliseum as 40 talented and beautiful Filipinas vied for the sought after title of Bb. Pilipinas Universe. Mary Jean LastimosaImage/Facebook 26-year-old More...
New report: Christian persecution increasing and spreading
In a recently-released summary report called “Persecuted and Forgotten?” Aid to the Church in Need has revealed a worldwide growth in discrimination against Christians in scope and frequency. The persecution More...
Venezuela is the most likely country of origin for the dengue outbreak in Madeira in 2012: study
I covered the dengue fever outbreak on the Portuguese island of Madeira since the first locally transmitted cases were detected in early October 2012, both here at The Global Dispatch and on the Infectious Disease More...
