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Agreement to promote regional development to address migration
October 23 |
Latin American countries participating in the Palenque Summit on migration, held this Sunday in the Mexican state of Chiapas (southwest), agreed to develop and implement an action plan for development to address the structural causes of migration in the region.
The meeting was attended by leaders and high-level representatives from Belize, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Panama and Venezuela.
Mexico’s Secretary of Foreign Affairs, Alicia Bárcena, read the communiqué-declaration of the “Palenque Meeting: for a fraternal neighborhood with well-being”, which defined that the main causes of the growing irregular migratory flow faced by the region are structural and of economic, political and social origin, in addition to factors linked to climate change.
The participants considered that the current exodus is also caused by external factors, such as unilateral restrictive measures of a criminal nature applied by third countries, which affect entire communities and, to a greater extent, the most vulnerable population groups.
In addition, they warned of the need to address irregular migration from a human rights (HR) perspective, in order to address its structural causes and regulate migratory flows jointly.
In light of this diagnosis, the heads of state and high-level representatives of the 11 countries agreed to develop a development action plan to address the structural causes of irregular migration in the region, which will be based on priority objectives and an understanding of the realities of each country.
Priority areas were defined as: food production and recovery of the agricultural sector, environmental preservation, employment generation, energy security (including migration to clean energy and decarbonization processes), health self-sufficiency, intra-regional trade and investment, and combating organized crime, corruption and human trafficking.
The heads of state and government, as well as high-level representatives attending Chiapas, urged an end to unilateral coercive measures and emphasized that they are contrary to international law.
The plan of action included the promotion of intra-regional trade and preferential tariffs for basic goods and services; the call for countries of origin, transit and destination to respect the right to migrate, safeguard the lives of migrants and create regularization options; and a call for destination countries to adopt migration policies in line with the regional reality and abandon selective policies, such as those that allow the regularization of certain nationalities.
It also called for a decisive contribution to Haiti’s sustainable development, the reestablishment of its human security environment and the normalization of its economic, political and social situation.
Other actions that make up this plan are to propose in a coordinated manner that the international financial debt architecture be rethought so that lower income countries achieve a higher level of development and reduce the intention to emigrate, and to request destination countries to expand regular, orderly and safe channels for emigration, with an emphasis on labor migration.
The participants in the Palenque Summit agreed to hold dialogues at the highest level on these issues through a working group to be created by the Ministries of Foreign Affairs. It was made clear that these agreements will be linked to the High Level Meeting on Migration and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean, proposed by Colombia and Mexico, which will take place in the first quarter of 2024.
In addition, they proposed to the governments of Cuba and the United States to hold a comprehensive dialogue on their bilateral relations as soon as possible.
Referring to the meeting, the President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, recalled that the country has faced more than 930 unilateral coercive measures and that during the “Palenque Meeting: for a fraternal neighborhood with well-being” it was demanded that the U.S. and other nations put an end to them.
He expressed that Venezuela will fully support the approved action plan. He highlighted the unity expressed by the participants to adopt a development model and their own path that would result in integration, as the Liberator Simón Bolívar would have wished.
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Trump leads Pentagon ceremony honoring September 11 victims
On Thursday, September 11, 2025, U.S. President Donald Trump led a solemn ceremony at the Pentagon to commemorate the victims of the September 11, 2001 attacks, which claimed nearly 3,000 lives in New York, Washington, D.C., and Pennsylvania.
“That terrible morning, 24 years ago, time stood still. Today, as one nation, we renew our sacred vow that we will never forget September 11, 2001,” Trump said in his speech, accompanied by First Lady Melania Trump and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth.
The ceremony began with the laying of floral tributes and the reading of the names of the 125 victims at the Pentagon, as well as the 59 passengers and crew members who perished on the hijacked plane that struck the building. The event also remembered the tragedy at New York’s Twin Towers, which were destroyed the same day by Al Qaeda terrorist attacks.
Trump also took the moment to pay posthumous tribute to conservative activist Charlie Kirk, who was killed on Wednesday in an attack in Utah, announcing that he would be awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. “We miss him dearly,” the president said.
The president further reflected on the heroic civilian responses across the sites of the attacks, honoring the courage and resilience of Americans on that day.
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Israel accepts Trump’s ceasefire proposal, demands Hamas disarmament
Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar announced on Tuesday that Israel has accepted U.S. President Donald Trump’s latest proposal for a ceasefire in Gaza, under the conditions that all hostages in the Strip be released and that Hamas lay down its arms.
“The war could end tomorrow,” Saar said during a press conference in Zagreb, adding that Israel is willing to accept “a comprehensive agreement to end the war” encompassing these two demands.
According to Saar, Hamas’s disarmament is “crucial” for Israel and would also “guarantee a better future for Gaza and the Palestinian people.”
The minister was referring to the latest ceasefire proposal from U.S. mediators, which, according to leaks to Israeli media, would involve the release of 48 living and deceased hostages in Gaza on the first day of the ceasefire in exchange for Palestinian prisoners, as well as the start of negotiations to end the war under Trump’s supervision.
In recent days, Hamas, seeking assurances that Israel will halt its offensive, stated that it is “open to any idea or proposal that achieves a comprehensive ceasefire” and a “complete withdrawal” of Israeli forces from Gaza.
Israel, for its part, insists on the release of hostages, the disarmament of Hamas, and that the Islamist group relinquish control of Gaza in order to end the conflict in the enclave, where more than 64,000 people have died under Israeli attacks since October 2023.
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La Niña may return in september, but global temperatures expected to stay above average
The La Niña climate phenomenon could reemerge starting in September, but temperatures are expected to remain above average, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), a UN agency, reported.
Since March 2025, neutral conditions—neither indicating an El Niño nor a La Niña event—have persisted, with sea surface temperature anomalies in the equatorial Pacific remaining close to average, according to the WMO.
“However, in the coming months, possibly starting from September 2025, these conditions may gradually evolve to be consistent with a La Niña episode,” the organization stated in its El Niño/La Niña bulletin.
According to the latest forecasts from the WMO’s Global Producing Centres for Seasonal Forecasts, for the period from September to November, there is a 55% chance that equatorial Pacific sea surface temperatures will drop to the threshold for La Niña.
Subsequently, for the period from October to December 2025, the probability of La Niña occurring rises to 60%.
“Nevertheless, despite the temporary cooling effect caused by La Niña, temperatures are expected to remain above average in much of the world,” the WMO added.
From September to November, temperatures are projected to remain above normal across most of the Northern Hemisphere and much of the Southern Hemisphere, the UN agency said.
Rainfall patterns are expected to follow those typically observed during a moderate La Niña event.
A La Niña episode involves large-scale cooling of the central and eastern equatorial Pacific surface waters, as well as other alterations in tropical atmospheric circulation, including changes in winds, pressure, and precipitation, the WMO explained.
Generally, La Niña produces climatic effects opposite to those of El Niño, especially in tropical regions.
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