International
Boluarte announces that Venezuelan migrants must show rental and work contracts
The president of Peru, Dina Boluarte, announced that the Executive will promote adjustments to regularize the situation of Venezuelan migrants such as the requirement that they show work and rental contracts, as well as monitor the sending of foreign currency outside the country, with the aim of fighting organized crime.
Boluarte’s announcement about Venezuelans
“We are going to track the currencies and remittances that are sent outside the country, to know where they generate that income from. And the one who does not answer with certainty where his income is from, well, that’s where we’re going to fall,” Boluarte said in the balance of his government management of the last eight months.
After more than 100 days without reporting to the press, Boluarte specified that they are going to make adjustments in Migration to demand that “every Venezuelan”, who apparently works legally, present the employment and rental contract.
In this sense, the president also asked property owners to take care of “to those who rent” their homes.
“We are going to go hand in hand with the National Superintendence of Customs and Tax Administration (Sunat) to be able to control those who rent and those who do not show where their income is from,” he reiterated.
The president addressed the issue of the swee of extortion and organized crime that is going through Peru and assured that they will capture foreign criminals.
“We will throw criminals out of the national territory”
“To the foreign criminals who are in our country, we say to them, we will throw them out of the national territory, we are not going to allow them to stay one more day in our territory,” Boluarte said.
He said that the departure of about 9 million Venezuelans due to the failure of the Government of that country “affects all countries of the world” and that there is an exodus of migrants that has not been seen “since the time of Moses.”
In this sense, he added that, for years, Peru left the borders open to Venezuelan migrants.
“We know well who has left our borders open, and thousands of them have entered our borders without even mentioning their names. And those subsequent governments have been doing nothing in the face of crime,” he said.
International
U.S. to Limit Visa Duration for Foreign Students and Journalists
The United States has announced new limits on the legal length of stay for foreign students and journalists, marking the latest tightening of immigration policies under President Donald Trump.
The changes, outlined in an administrative rule published on Thursday, are expected to take effect in September, unless Congress blocks the measure.
Under the new policy, holders of student visas will be allowed to remain in the United States for no more than four years.
Foreign journalists will be limited to 240-day stays—approximately eight months—with the possibility of applying for extensions of the same duration.
The policy imposes even stricter rules on Chinese journalists, whose visas will be capped at 90 days.
More than 100 international news organizations and press freedom groups, including Agence France-Presse (AFP), criticized the measure in an open letter, arguing that it would reduce both the quantity and quality of international coverage of events in the United States.
The Republican Party, led by President Trump, currently holds a majority in Congress and has pledged to curb both illegal immigration and certain forms of legal immigration.
Previously, the United States generally issued student visas for the full duration of an academic program, while foreign journalists could receive visas valid for up to five years.
Central America
Nicaragua Cuts Diplomatic Ties With Italy Over Red Brigades Dispute
The Nicaraguan government announced on Thursday that it is severing diplomatic relations with Italy following criticism from the Italian government over Nicaragua’s long-standing decision to shelter Alessio Casimirri, a former member of the Red Brigades convicted in Italy for the 1978 kidnapping and murder of former Prime Minister Aldo Moro.
Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani criticized the administration of co-presidents Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo on Wednesday for continuing to provide refuge to Casimirri, who was sentenced in Italy to six life terms for his role in Moro’s abduction and killing.
In a statement issued Thursday, Nicaragua’s Foreign Ministry said it was ending all diplomatic relations with Italy, describing Tajani’s remarks as “unjustified, aggressive, and irresponsible.”
Tajani made the comments during a gathering of conservative leaders from Europe and Latin America held in Madrid.
“We have absolutely nothing in common with the positions of extremist governments such as Nicaragua, a country that continues to harbor dangerous Red Brigades terrorists like Alessio Casimirri,” Tajani said, according to Italian media.
The diplomatic break marks a new escalation in tensions between the two countries over the decades-old case involving Casimirri, who has lived in Nicaragua for many years despite repeated calls from Italy for his extradition.
International
U.S. Strikes Hit Areas Near Strait of Hormuz as Tensions With Iran Escalate
Several U.S. strikes targeted areas near the Strait of Hormuz on Thursday, according to Iranian state media citing local authorities, as hostilities between the United States and Iran intensified.
Officials in Iran’s Hormozgan Province said the island of Qeshm was struck multiple times by what they described as U.S. missiles during the evening. The reports were carried by the Iranian news agencies Fars and Tasnim.
Iranian state television also reported that the Bandar Abbas region, located on the Iranian coast overlooking the Strait of Hormuz, was the target of what authorities described as an “enemy U.S. air attack.”
According to local officials quoted by state television, no casualties have been reported following the strikes.
The reported attacks come amid renewed military tensions between Washington and Tehran, although U.S. authorities had not immediately commented on the reported operations.
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