Haiti's money is being spent to develop facilities for foreign tourists.

The scheme is designed such that most of the benefits will go to the wealthy elite. Special tax cuts will ensure that the people get essentially nothing.

The article does not mention that the development in Ile a Vache is based on evicting the inhabitants.

A Venezuelan opposition MP is threatened with investigation for treason for leading protests.

I can well believe that Machado cannot relate to the poor in Venezuela, and I presume they did not vote for her. She was probably elected from a fairly wealthy district, but those people are voters too.

Chavistas will say that Machado is conspiring with the US to overthrow the government, but protests are not rebellion. If it were not for the country's real problems — shortages and crime — the wealthy elite would not get mass support for protests. The government should focus on correcting those problems. The shortages are caused by price and currency controls.

A prediction about the amount of global heating, made in 1972 based on very simple physics, corresponds to today's observations.

Nonetheless, the effect of adding further CO₂ to the atmosphere is not so easy to predict. The further we go, the more possible positive feedback effects there are that might trigger further releases of CO2, or methane from warming tundra or sea bed.

Private militias have mostly cleared Michoacán of drug traffickers, but the Mexican government has no idea what to do with the militias.

Repression of protests has become the norm for universities in the UK.