Latin America
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett praises Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández for his “courageous and correct action for the State of Israel.”
The South American country’s ambassador has been summoned in wake of the UNHRC’s decision to investigate Israel’s conduct during the recent Gaza war.
If their coronavirus morbidity numbers do not improve significantly, they will join the list of countries totally off limits to Israeli travelers, says Israel’s Health Ministry.
Julio López’s goal is to educate social-media platforms that they need to approach hate speech differently, not just group all Spanish-speaking countries together.
“Baal, Satanic deity, Canaanites and Jews sacrificed children to receive their sympathy,” Roberto Jefferson, national president of the Brazilian Labor Party, reportedly wrote on Instagram.
Prolonged droughts and rising temperatures have disrupted long-standing planting practices and left the land with major desertification.
“I think we should have done it already,” says the São Paulo Chamber of Deputies member and son of the Brazilian president during a visit to Israel. “But right after I return [to Brazil], I will put the matter back on the table.”
Several members of the country’s military have been arrested for smuggling uranium, says Venezuelan politician and would-be leader Juan Guaidó.
Israel maintains full diplomatic relations with all the countries of Central and South America and the Caribbean region (with the exception of Cuba, Bolivia and Venezuela), and in recent years, pro-Israel Latin American influencers, both Jewish and non-Jewish, have further transformed the relationship.
“Israel will always continue to assist our friend and ally Guatemala,” said Israel’s Ambassador to Guatemala and Honduras Mattanya Cohen.
It joins a network that mobilizes support for Israel based on shared Judeo-Christian values, a movement that the Israel Allies Foundation calls “faith-based diplomacy.”
“Many members of our community have a strong Zionist fervor, and they have friends and family in Israel or spent some time studying there,” says a local leader.
