![Image Trump tariffs miss the mark on why some U.S. industries are failing [Lima Charlie News][Photo: Brendan Smialowski / AFP]](https://limacharlienews.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Trump-tariffs-miss-the-mark-on-why-some-U.S.-industries-are-failing.jpg)
The Trump administration’s heavy tariffs on iron and steel will have very little impact on China, while punishing the industries of longtime U.S. allies. The problems of a failing U.S. steel industry will not be solved by tariffs alone. In March, the Trump administration announced… Keep Reading
![Image Singapore Summit leaves North Korea cyber threat off the table [Lima Charlie News]](https://limacharlienews.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Singapore-Summit-leaves-North-Korea-cyber-threat-off-the-table-Lima-Charlie-News-480x320.png)
While diplomacy is moving forward with Kim Jong-Un, it doesn’t appear that North Korea’s extensive cyber-warfare capabilities are on the negotiating table. General Kim Yong-Chol, former spy chief of the North Korean intelligence agency, the General Reconnaissance Bureau, played a pivotal role in breaking the diplomatic impasse… Keep Reading
![Image As Colombia’s economy moves forward, its history may slide backwards [Lima Charlie News] (Photo: Luis Acosta / AFP]](https://limacharlienews.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/title-480x320.jpg)
Colombia’s political swing to the far right may be helping drive investment to its emerging markets, but at the risk of continuing the violence which has marred the country’s history. In the past two years coca production in Colombia has increased by 50%, and in… Keep Reading
![Image Saudi women granted driver's licenses still have a long road ahead [Lima Charlie News]](https://limacharlienews.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Saudi-women-granted-drivers-licenses-still-have-a-long-road-ahead-Lima-Charlie-News-480x320.png)
Saudi Arabia stepped into the 20th century this week by granting ten women driver’s licenses, with 2,000 more expected. But what does reality really look like in the Kingdom when the rubber meets the road? Exciting things are happening in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.… Keep Reading
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Turkey’s central bank is ending a prolonged period of high inflation rates and citizens have tried to offload Turkey’s lira for foreign currencies. With presidential elections this month, Turkey will have an opportunity to render a verdict on President Erdogan’s stewardship. The financial crisis in… Keep Reading
![Image Ignoring Puerto Rico is not the American way [Lima Charlie News][Photo: Mario Tama]](https://limacharlienews.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Ignoring-Puerto-Rico-is-not-the-American-way-480x320.jpg)
Puerto Rico was already in crisis before Hurricane Maria hit the island, and increasing casualties have added urgency to the need for reform. Both Republicans and Democrats have plans to help the island, yet neither party is taking direct aim at the high cost of… Keep Reading
![Image Russian aluminium giant Rusal’s woes continue, but with a short reprieve [Lima Charlie News][Image: James Fox]](https://limacharlienews.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/bleh-480x320.png)
In spite of the ongoing shuffling of its senior staff and ownership, Rusal, the world’s leading aluminum producer and the cash cow of one of Russia’s leading oligarchs, has not been able to dodge US sanctions. In early April, the United States Treasury Department announced… Keep Reading
![Image Memorial Day may soon be a remembrance of democracy and those who had the courage to defend it [Lima Charlie News]](https://limacharlienews.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Memorial-Day-may-soon-be-a-remembrance-of-democracy-and-those-who-had-the-courage-to-defend-it-Lima-Charlie-News-480x320.png)
To the classical mind, a society in which political authority is divorced from military service was practically beyond the imagination. Worth remembering, as we greet another Memorial Day with 1,281,900 U.S. military personnel the world over, and the looming threat of waning democracies worldwide. Over… Keep Reading
![Image America's obsession with plastic [Lima Charlie News]](https://limacharlienews.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Americas-obsession-with-plastic-480x320.jpg)
While plastic continues to pose a real threat to our environment and health, America’s leadership, America’s lobbyists and America’s plastic culture all fight to keep us drowning in plastic. Now it has fallen to local governments and environmental advocacy organizations to take the lead. A few… Keep Reading
![Image En Marche! France’s economy stands at a crossroads and for Macron, failure is not an option [Lima Charlie News]](https://limacharlienews.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/En-Marché-France’s-economy-stands-at-a-crossroads-and-for-Macron-failure-is-not-an-option-480x320.png)
France has long been considered the weakest of Europe’s big three economies, Europe’s black sheep. Yet, under the leadership of President Emmanuel Macron, it appears at long last to be moving in the right direction. France has long been considered the weakest of Europe’s big… Keep Reading
![Image America’s failed seaports - Trump’s ‘America First’ policy isn’t the only barrier to free trade [Lima Charlie News]](https://limacharlienews.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/America’s-failed-seaports-480x320.jpg)
While the Trump Administration’s “America First” policy may be damaging to U.S. free trade worldwide, America’s inability to maintain deep water access at its seaports is a far more critical enemy than any new tariff or duty. Thanks to historic “America First” legislation, American seaports… Keep Reading
![Image Armenia has a Velvet Revolution, so how does Kim Kardashian, Kanye West, Russia and Instagram fit in? [Lima Charlie News]](https://limacharlienews.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/ph544r7a4ju01-1-480x320.jpg)
Armenia’s Velvet Revolution has thrown off an autocratic pro-Russian regime, yet, Russia has remained silent. With Armenia’s new government making diplomatic overtures to Moscow, this revolution has taken the style of a Colour Revolution, without the substance. If Twitter, Facebook and Youtube were the platforms… Keep Reading
![Image Erdogan's high wire act keeps Turkey's economy spinning, for now [Lima Charlie News]](https://limacharlienews.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Screen-Shot-2018-05-04-at-5.22.24-PM-480x320.png)
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is fairly popular, his political opponents have been crushed in an ongoing purge, and Turkey’s economy has been growing by leaps and bounds. But the economy is showing cracks, and Erdogan has moved elections forward by 18 months to cash… Keep Reading
Op-Ed: While other economies are on a strict debt-diet, the U.S. is gluttonous and hungry for more. Trumponomics has undoubtedly made the national stock markets happy, but a new financial crisis beckons, at least if the recent International Money Fund (IMF) forecast is to be… Keep Reading
![Image Korea: Is Trump Bringing Peace in Our Time? [Lima Charlie News]](https://limacharlienews.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Korea-Is-Trump-Bringing-Peace-in-Our-Time-480x319.png)
The war between North and South Korea is set to find its formal end in 2018, a result of combined US, Chinese and South Korean pressure. The recent meeting between the leaders of the two sides promises a peaceful future on the divided Korean Peninsula.… Keep Reading
![Image 'Sanctions and the Rise of Putin's Russia' - starring oligarchs, siloviki, Rossiyskaya mafiya and Oleg Deripaska [Lima Charlie News]](https://limacharlienews.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Putin-oligarchs-Lima-Charlie-News-480x320.png)
‘Sanctions and the Rise of Putin’s Russia’ contains an all star cast that includes oligarchs, siloviki, Chekists, and Rossiyskaya mafiya. Special guest star, Oleg Deripaska, makes an appearance as a ‘special case’ along with a brief appearance by US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin. Sanctions is… Keep Reading
