The legislative ballot took place on December 6 in Venezuela. Observers agree that it went smoothly.
Three months after the Kanak referendum on the autonomy of the territory colonized by France, the sale of the Nickel factory by the Brazilian group Vale arouses the anger of the separatists and the Kanak chiefdoms.
Since the departure of Spain, the colonizing power, in 1976, the problem of Western Sahara has remained unsolved. Morocco claims sovereignty over it while the Polisario Front with the majority of the Sahrawi population is for the independence of this territory in the form of a Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) which is to date recognized by 23 states.
For years, and it did not start with Trump's presidency, Asia has been identified by the US as the major theater for its foreign and military policy.