Category: Latin America

MIL-OSI Security: Six Illegal Aliens Charged For Brutal Murder Of South Carolina Mother in Random Attempted Robbery

Source: US Department of Homeland Security

LANCASTER, SC – Local authorities have charged six illegal aliens, between the ages of 13 and 21, with the random murder of a South Carolina mother of two, Larisha Sharell Thompson. They have also been charged with burglary and attempted armed robbery.

The six illegal aliens allegedly pulled up alongside Thompson, fatally shot her and attempted to enter her vehicle. Not only did these individuals allegedly murder this innocent mother, but they are also accused of attempting to rob a convenience store.

Photo: Lancaster Sherriff’s Office

On May 12, local authorities announced the arrests of six illegal aliens from Honduras including Asael Torres-Chirinos, Jarby Ramos-Ardon, Jeyson Salgado-Pineda, and three juveniles, ages 13, 14 and 15, for the murder of Thompson and the convenience store burglary.

Torres-Chino was previously arrested in 2023 for domestic violence.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has placed detainers on all six criminal illegal aliens as they await criminal prosecution in South Carolina.

Statement Attributable to Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin:

“Larisha Sharell Thompson’s life was tragically taken by criminal illegal aliens. She was a mother who was driving to a friend’s house when her life was brutally taken by these criminal aliens who should have never been in our country. President Trump and Secretary Noem will always fight for the victims of illegal alien crime and their families. The safety of American citizens comes first.”

Secretary Noem relaunched the Victims of Immigration Crime Engagement (VOICE) office. The VOICE office was shuttered by the previous administration, which left victims of alien crime without access to many key support services and resources. The office was first launched in 2017 by the Trump administration as a dedicated resource for those who have been victimized by crime that has a nexus to immigration.

If you or a loved one has been impacted by a crime committed by an illegal alien, you are not alone. Call 1-855-48-VOICE (1-855-488-6423).

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May 16, 2025
MIL-OSI USA: May 14th, 2025 Heinrich Votes Against Advancing Nominees for the Interior Solicitor and Energy Assistant Secretary of Energy for Electricity

US Senate News:

Source: United States Senator for New Mexico Martin Heinrich

WASHINGTON — U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Ranking Member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, voted no against William Doffermyre’s nomination to be the Department of the Interior (DOI) Solicitor and Catherine Jereza’s nomination to be the Department of Energy Assistant Secretary for Electricity.

Last week, Heinrich pressed Doffermyre on the Interior Department’s failure to unfreeze federal funding that was passed into law and adhere to court rulings. Heinrich also questioned Doffermyre on his views on permitting reform and complying with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA).

Referring to his no vote on Mr. Doffermyre, Heinrich said, “I have been particularly troubled by the Acting Solicitor’s decision to summarily revoke all of the legal opinions issued by the previous Solicitor, including one issued in response to a federal court decision.”

“Similarly, I take strong exception to the Department’s decision to stop work on the Empire Wind Project, and its intention to shorten environmental reviews to an unrealistic 90 days,” continued Heinrich. “I did not get a sense from Mr. Doffermyre that he shared my concerns and would correct these matters if confirmed.”

On his no vote on Ms. Jereza, Heinrich said, “I am also unable to vote for Ms. Jereza because of her role in withholding funds for life-sustaining solar and battery energy projects at community healthcare centers in Puerto Rico in her current job as senior advisor to the Under Secretary for Infrastructure.”

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May 16, 2025
MIL-OSI USA: May 9th, 2025 Heinrich Questions Trump Nominee on the Interior Department’s Failure to Unfreeze Federal Funding & Adhere to Court Rulings, Complying with the Law, and Permitting Reform

US Senate News:

Source: United States Senator for New Mexico Martin Heinrich

VIDEO: Heinrich Questions Interior Department Nominee for Solicitor William Doffermyre

WASHINGTON — U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Ranking Member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, questioned the U.S. Department of the Interior Solicitor nominee, William Doffermyre, on the Interior Department’s failure to unfreeze federal funding that was passed into law and adhere to court rulings. Heinrich additionally questioned Doffermyre on his views regarding permitting reform and complying with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA).

During his opening remarks at an ENR hearing to consider Doffermyre, Heinrich stressed that the Interior Department Solicitor does not make the law but enact law. Heinrich also highlighted that a Senior Advisor to Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, Greg Zerzan, used his authority to suspend the legal opinions of the prior Interior Solicitor. Heinrich stressed that while departmental policies change from one administration to another, the laws do not. Heinrich also expressed his concerns that Zerzan had reinstated an earlier’ Solicitor’s opinion, which was vacated by a Federal District Court. Heinrich then directed his questions to Mr. Doffermyre on his nomination to serve as the Solicitor for the U.S. Department of the Interior.

Watch a video of Heinrich’s line of questioning here.

Heinrich opened his questions by discussing the disbursement of obligated funds, “Mr. Doffermyre, the Office of the Solicitor is responsible for making sure that the Department follows the law. However, right now, the Department continues to violate court orders with respect to frozen funds, and at some point, the excuse that these funds are quote “under review” begins to not hold water. If confirmed, will you ensure that appropriated funds are obligated and disbursed in a timely manner, in accordance with the law and in accordance with the Impoundment Control Act?”

Doffermyre answered, “Thank you, Senator Heinrich. I have not started working at the Department of Interior yet, so I’m not familiar with what appropriated funds have or have not been spent. But as the Solicitor, my job will be to review the facts and review the law and provide my clear advice on what the law requires, and the Impoundment Control Act and other legal requirements say that you know, Congress controls the purse strings. And I will analyze them and give the advice that if the law requires that funds be obligated and spent, then the funds will be obligated and spent.”

Heinrich then turned his line of questioning to highlight the Interior Department’s recent actions overruling decisions of a federal judge, “Last month, a Senior Advisor to the Secretary exercising the power of the Solicitor outside of the Vacancies Reform Act reinstated a legal opinion that had been vacated by a Federal District Court. The District Court vacated the prior solicitor’s opinion because the solicitor had misinterpreted the Migratory Bird Treaty Act. Notably, the Justice Department did not press an appeal to that court’s decision. Yet the Senior Advisor’s opinion purports to reinstate the vacated opinion in 93 of the nation’s 94 judicial districts. So I’m curious, do you believe that a Solicitor, or even an Advisor exercising the Solicitor’s authority can overrule the decision of a federal district judge?”

Doffermyre replied, “Thank you, Senator Heinrich. the short answer is, No. I do not believe that the Solicitor can overrule a Federal District Judge. M-Opinions, what you’re referring to, is something that I’ve learned a little about. And I look forward to learning a lot more about. But they’re the highest-level legal interpretation by the Solicitor, and they are binding. Those opinions are binding on the Department of Interior. My past, as you heard, in addition to Easter Bunny and Hannah Raft guide and other things, I was a litigator for 12 years. I’ve since gone on to the private sector, but when I first learned about M-Opinions, and took, you know, turn through a few of them, I thought, wow, this is really going to hurt them. Back to my, my litigation days, they are very long, reasoned opinions. They look a lot like court opinions, and I look forward to exercising some of those skills that I learned in order to analyze the law and the facts and provide them opinions that are that are sound and, and durable, and will stand up in court.”

Heinrich then turned to permitting reform and the necessity of meeting legal requirements throughout the process, “I want to go back for just a minute to something that the Chairman asked you about, which is complying with NEPA, with both environmental impact statements and environmental assessments in these 14 to 28 day timelines. And if you can do that and meet all the requirements of the law, I’m all for it. I think what you’ve seen in this Committee has been a bipartisan commitment to permitting reform, to getting to yes or no faster for projects. However, if you get to the end of 28 days and, and you haven’t been able to meet all the legal requirements for an EIS (Environmental Impact Statement), if at that point you publish an EIS that does not meet those requirements, it creates litigation risk. That’s the opposite of shovels in the ground. So, talk to me about how you’re going to balance that. If you can get to a high-quality legal product that does not create litigation risks for the proponents in 28 days? I’m all for that, but if you haven’t checked all those boxes, at the end of 28 days, are you going to continue forward and make sure that those products actually will withstand, legal challenge?”

Doffermyre answered, “Thank you. That’s a great question, and I do want to first say thank you very much to you and the members of this committee for the work that you’ve done on permitting reform. The Fiscal Responsibility Act, with the time limits for NEPA, as well as the work for the permitting reform bill that didn’t quite pass last year were both very, very welcome is to the industry, when it comes to…”

Heinrich interjected to speak to his colleagues, “We could still pass that law, I would just mention to all of my colleagues. I think that would be a good idea.”

Doffermyre continued, “But the short answer to your question is, well, I don’t know if there’s a short answer. What I will say is, it would do no good and would be counterproductive to publish a final EIS and a record of decision that did not, you know, entail the necessary hard look at what’s required by the statute. You know, you can get a permanent 28 days, but if two years’ worth of litigation results in a remand, that’s going to require six months of a new analysis that’s not doing anyone good, that’s not getting shots in the ground. So, we are completely aligned on that Senator Heinrich. Thank you.”

Heinrich wrapped his questions, “Thank you, I appreciate it.”

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May 16, 2025
MIL-OSI USA: ICE makes significant arrest of previously removed MS-13 gang member

Source: US Immigration and Customs Enforcement

BALTIMORE — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested 26-year-old illegal Salvadoran national Nelson Vladimir Amaya-Benitez May 12, in Gaithersburg. Amaya is a validated MS-13 gang member and has been convicted of second-degree malicious burning, rogue and vagabond, and possession of marijuana.

“The arrest of this criminal alien MS-13 gang member is yet another stark reminder of the dangers posed when our immigration laws are not enforced. This individual, who had previously been removed from the United States, reentered illegally and repeatedly jeopardized the safety of our Maryland communities,” said ICE Baltimore acting Field Office Director Nikita Baker. “ICE Lodged five detainers — four of which were not honored — allowing him to return to the streets and reoffend time and time again. This pattern is unacceptable. We strongly encourage our local law enforcement partners to honor our detainers to ensure that dangerous individuals like this are held accountable and removed from our communities to protect the law-abiding residents we serve.”

The U.S. Border Patrol apprehended Amaya after he illegally entered the United States near Hidalgo, Texas, Feb. 3, 2016, and served him a notice to appear.

The Irving Police Department in Texas arrested and charged Amaya with possession of marijuana Sept. 1, 2016. The Criminal District Court 2 in Dallas convicted him of possession of marijuana Sept. 21, 2016, and sentenced him to 36 days of confinement.

The Seagoville, Texas, Police Department arrested and charged Amaya with unauthorized use of a vehicle and evading arrest Oct. 8, 2016. The 291st District Court in Dallas convicted him of unauthorized use of vehicle and evading arrest Nov. 13, 2018, and sentenced him to 90 days of confinement. ICE arrested Amaya Nov. 14, 2018.

The Montgomery County Police Department in Rockville arrested and charged him with armed robbery May 26, 2017. On May 27, 2017, ICE lodged an immigration detainer on Amaya with the Montgomery County Detention Center. The Montgomery County Circuit Court in Rockville convicted him of robbery June 29, 2017, and sentenced him to 10 years of confinement with all but 18 months suspended.

A Department of Justice immigration judge ordered Amaya removed from this U.S. Aug. 13, 2019. ICE removed him to El Salvador Aug. 28, 2019.

Amaya illegally reentered the U.S. on an unknown date at an unknown location without being inspected, admitted or paroled by an immigration officer.

ICE lodged an immigration detainer on Amaya with the Montgomery County Detention Center Aug. 18, 2022, following his arrest by Montgomery County police. The detention center declined to honor ICE’s immigration detainer and released Amaya from custody the same day.

Montgomery County police arrested and charged him with theft Feb. 8, 2023. The District Court for Montgomery County in Silver Spring convicted him of theft July 7, 2023, and sentenced him to two months and 29 days of confinement but suspended his entire sentence.

On May 13, 2023, the Montgomery County Police Department arrested and charged Amaya with motor vehicle theft and rogue and vagabond. The District Court for Montgomery County in Silver Spring convicted him of motor vehicle theft and rogue and vagabond Aug. 4, 2023. He received a sentenced of five years confinement with all but 18 months suspended. On the same date, the ICE lodged an immigration detainer against him with the Montgomery County Detention Center. On an unknown date, the detention center declined to honor ICE’s immigration detainer and released Amaya from custody.

The Montgomery County Police Department arrested and charged Amaya with second-degree malicious burning May 22, 2023. The District Court for Montgomery County in Silver Spring convicted him of the charge Aug. 7, 2023, and sentenced him to 18 months of confinement. ICE lodged an immigration detainer on Amaya with the Montgomery County Detention Center Oct. 11, 2023. On an unknown date, that facility again declined to honor ICE’s immigration detainer and released Amaya from custody.

The Montgomery County Police Department arrested and charged Amaya with attempted motor vehicle theft Sept. 29, 2024. On the same date, the ICE an immigration detainer on Amaya with the Montgomery County Detention Center. The Montgomery County Circuit Court in Rockville convicted Amaya of attempted motor vehicle theft April 4, and sentenced him to three years of confinement with two years, five months and 11 days suspended. On April 18, the Montgomery County Detention Center again declined to honor ICE’s immigration detainer and released Amaya from custody.

Amaya is currently in ICE custody.

Members of the public can report crimes and suspicious activity by dialing 866-DHS-2-ICE (866-347-2423) or completing the online tip form.

Learn more about ICE’s mission to increase public safety in our communities on X, formerly known as Twitter, at @EROBaltimore.

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May 16, 2025

MIL-OSI: Duos Technologies Group Reports First Quarter 2025 Results

Source: GlobeNewswire (MIL-OSI)

JACKSONVILLE, Fla., May 15, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Duos Technologies Group, Inc. (“Duos” or the “Company”) (Nasdaq: DUOT), a provider of machine vision and artificial intelligence that analyzes fast moving vehicles, reported financial results for the first quarter (“Q1 2025”) ended March 31, 2025.

First Quarter 2025 and Recent Operational Highlights

Recorded over $4.8 million in Services and Consulting revenue including $3.9 million for services related to the Asset Management Agreement (“AMA”) with New APR Energy.
Significant improvement in Gross Margin compared to the same quarter one year ago and further improvements expected in Q2.
Showcased the first production standalone Edge Data Center with revenues starting April 1.
Placed orders for 4 additional data centers for a total of 10 units so far all of which have identified locations and expect to meet goal of 15 deployed units by year end.
Over 2.3 million comprehensive railcar scans performed in the first quarter across 13 portals, of which more than 379,000 were unique railcars. This metric encompasses all railcars scanned at locations across the U.S., Canada, and Mexico, representing approximately 24% of the total freight car population in North America.
As of the end of the first quarter, the Company had $17.8 million of revenue in backlog plus $7.0 – $8.0 million near-term awards and renewals to be recognized during the remainder of 2025.

First Quarter 2025 Financial Results
It should be noted that the following Financial Results represent the consolidation of the Company with its subsidiaries Duos Technologies, Duos Edge AI, Inc., and Duos Energy Corporation (“Duos Energy”).

Total revenues for Q1 2025 increased 363% to $4.95 million compared to $1.07 million in the first quarter of 2024 (“Q1 2024”). Total revenue for Q1 2025 represents an aggregate of approximately $65,000 of technology systems revenue and approximately $4,890,000 in recurring services and consulting revenue. The significant revenue increase in the first quarter, compared to the same quarter last year, was primarily driven by Duos Energy beginning to execute against the Asset Management Agreement (“AMA”) with New APR that was signed on December 31, 2024. Under the AMA, Duos Energy oversees the deployment and operations of a fleet of mobile gas turbines and related balance-of-plant inventory, providing management, sales, and operational support services to New APR. The decrease in technology systems revenues was primarily attributed to delays outside of the Company’s control with deployment of our two high-speed Railcar Inspection Portals. Although these systems remain largely ready for deployment, customer delays at the deployment site continue to prevent the Company from entering the installation phase. In spite of the timing delays that continue to impact the quarterly results, management remains confident in the long-term potential of the RIP product.

Cost of revenues for Q1 2025 increased 273% to $3.64 million compared to $0.98 million for Q1 2024. The significant increase in cost of revenues was primarily due to supporting the AMA with New APR, where Duos Energy oversees the deployment and operations of a fleet of mobile gas turbines and related balance-of-plant inventory, providing management, sales, and operational support services to New APR. An additional contributing factor to the increase in cost of revenues on services and consulting is $548,121 in amortization expense of the intangible asset related to a nonmonetary transaction, which was not present in the corresponding period of 2024. The cost of revenues on technology systems decreased compared to the equivalent period in 2024. This reduction is primarily driven by our ability in Q1 2025 to reallocate certain fixed operating and servicing costs for technology systems to support the AMA, an allocation we could not make in the comparative period because the agreement was not yet in effect. It also reflects the ramp-down of manufacturing ahead of field installation of our two high-speed Railcar Inspection Portals, which has been further delayed and further reduced cost of revenues while we await customer readiness for site deployment.

Gross margin for Q1 2025 increased 1,288% to $1.31 million compared to $0.09 million for Q1 2024. Gross margin improved primarily due to Duos Energy beginning performance of the AMA with New APR. This includes $904,125 in revenue recognized during the three months ended March 31, 2025, related to the Company’s 5% non-voting equity interest in the ultimate parent of New APR, which carried no associated costs and therefore contributed at a 100% margin. These revenues and the associated margin contribution were not present in the prior year period.

Operating expenses for Q1 2025 increased 9% to $3.10 million compared to $2.86 million for Q1 2024. The increase in expenses is largely attributed to non-cash stock-based compensation charged for restricted stock granted to the executive team on January 1, 2025, under new employment agreements with a three-year cliff vesting schedule. Sales and marketing costs declined as resources were allocated to costs of service and consulting revenues in support of the AMA with New APR. Conversely, research and development expenses rose 11%, reflecting new engineering hires dedicated to supporting the AMA. The Company continues to focus on stabilizing operating expenses while meeting the increased needs of our customers.

Net operating loss for Q1 2025 totaled $1.79 million compared to net operating loss of $2.76 million for Q1 2024. The decrease in loss from operations was primarily the result of increased revenues during the quarter, driven by revenue generated by Duos Energy through the AMA with New APR.

Net loss for Q1 2025 totaled $2.08 million compared to net loss of $2.75 million for Q1 2024. The 24% decrease in net loss was mostly attributed to the increase in revenues generated by Duos Energy through the AMA with New APR as described above.

Cash and cash equivalents at March 31, 2025 totaled $3.80 million compared to $6.27 million at December 31, 2024. In addition, the Company had over $2.68 million in receivables and contract assets for a total of approximately $6.48 million in cash and expected short-term liquidity.

Financial Outlook
At the end of the first quarter, the Company’s contracts in backlog represented approximately $45.4 million in revenue, of which approximately $17.4 million is expected to be recognized in calendar 2025 not including an estimated $7.0 – $8.0 million in expected near-term awards and renewals. The remaining contract backlog consists of multi-year service and software agreements, along with project revenues extending beyond 2025, related to Duos, Duos Edge AI, and Duos Energy.

Based on these committed contracts and near-term pending orders that are already performing or scheduled to be executed throughout the course of 2025, the Company is reiterating its previously stated revenue expectations for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2025. The Company expects total revenue for 2025 to range between $28 million and $30 million, representing an increase of 285% to 312% from 2024. Duos expects this improvement in operating results to be reflected over the course of the full year in 2025.

Management Commentary
“I am delighted with the progress we have made in the first quarter and am very impressed at the speed at which the Duos team has adapted to the new opportunities in the Data Center and Power business,” said Chuck Ferry, Duos CEO. “While our Q1 results were anticipated, my expectation is that we will deliver growth, particularly in the second half, as the results of all our initiatives become booked revenues as indicated by the increase in backlog.”

Conference Call
The Company’s management will host a conference call today, May 15, 2025, at 4:30 p.m. Eastern time (1:30 p.m. Pacific time) to discuss these results, followed by a question-and-answer period.

Date: Thursday, May 15, 2025
Time: 4:30 p.m. Eastern time (1:30 p.m. Pacific time)
U.S. dial-in: 877-407-3088
International dial-in: 201-389-0927
Confirmation: 13753649

Please call the conference telephone number 5-10 minutes prior to the start time of the conference call. An operator will register your name and organization.

If you have any difficulty connecting with the conference call, please contact DUOT@duostech.com.

The conference call will be broadcast live via telephone and available for online replay via the investor section of the Company’s website here.

About Duos Technologies Group, Inc.
Duos Technologies Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: DUOT), based in Jacksonville, Florida, through its wholly owned subsidiaries, Duos Technologies, Inc., Duos Edge AI, Inc., and Duos Energy Corporation, designs, develops, deploys and operates intelligent technology solutions for Machine Vision and Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) applications including real-time analysis of fast-moving vehicles, Edge Data Centers and power consulting. For more information, visit www.duostech.com , www.duosedge.ai and www.duosenergycorp.com.

Forward- Looking Statements
This news release includes forward-looking statements regarding the Company’s financial results and estimates and business prospects that involve substantial risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially. Forward-looking statements relate to future events and typically address the Company’s expected future business and financial performance. The forward-looking statements in this news release relate to, among other things, information regarding anticipated timing for the installation, development and delivery dates of our systems; anticipated entry into additional contracts; anticipated effects of macro-economic factors (including effects relating to supply chain disruptions and inflation); timing with respect to revenue recognition; trends in the rate at which our costs increase relative to increases in our revenue; anticipated reductions in costs due to changes in the Company’s organizational structure; potential increases in revenue, including increases in recurring revenue; potential changes in gross margin (including the timing thereof); statements regarding our backlog and potential revenues deriving therefrom; and statements about future profitability and potential growth of the Company. Words such as “believe,” “expect,” “anticipate,” “should,” “plan,” “aim,” “will,” “may,” “should,” “could,” “intend,” “estimate,” “project,” “forecast,” “target,” “potential” and other words and terms of similar meaning, typically identify such forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties and there are important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. These factors include, but are not limited to, the Company’s ability to generate sufficient cash to continue and expand operations, the competitive environment generally and in the Company’s specific market areas, changes in technology, the availability of and the terms of financing, changes in costs and availability of goods and services, economic conditions in general and in the Company’s specific market areas, changes in federal, state and/or local government laws and regulations potentially affecting the use of the Company’s technology, changes in operating strategy or development plans and the ability to attract and retain qualified personnel. The Company cautions that the foregoing list of risks, uncertainties and factors is not exclusive. Additional information concerning these and other risk factors is contained in the Company’s most recently filed Annual Reports on Form 10-K, subsequent Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, recent Current Reports on Form 8-K, and other filings filed by the Company with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”), which are available at the SEC’s website, http://www.sec.gov. The Company believes its plans, intentions and expectations reflected in or suggested by these forward-looking statements are based on reasonable assumptions. No assurance, however, can be given that the Company will achieve or realize these plans, intentions or expectations. Indeed, it is likely that some of the Company’s assumptions may prove to be incorrect. The Company’s actual results and financial position may vary from those projected or implied in the forward-looking statements and the variances may be material. Each forward-looking statement speaks only as of the date of the particular statement. We do not undertake or accept any obligation or undertaking to release publicly any updates or revisions to any forward-looking statements to reflect any change in our expectations or any change in events, conditions or circumstances on which any forward-looking statement is based, except as required by law. All subsequent written and oral forward-looking statements concerning the Company or other matters attributable to the Company or any person acting on its behalf are expressly qualified in their entirety by the cautionary statements above.


DUOS TECHNOLOGIES GROUP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS
(Unaudited)

		For the Three Months Ended
		March 31,
			2025			2024

REVENUES:
	Technology systems	$	64,684		$	269,855
	Services and consulting		972,751			800,825
	Services and consulting – related parties		3,914,750			–

	Total Revenues		4,952,185			1,070,680

COST OF REVENUES:
	Technology systems		232,264			583,437
	Services and consulting		748,194			392,611
	Services and consulting – related parties		2,658,068			–

	Total Cost of Revenues		3,638,526			976,048

GROSS MARGIN			1,313,659			94,632

OPERATING EXPENSES:
	Sales and marketing		294,975			553,486
	Research and development		424,431			382,142
	General and administration		2,383,881			1,920,050

	Total Operating Expenses		3,103,287			2,855,678

LOSS FROM OPERATIONS			(1,789,628	)		(2,761,046	)

OTHER INCOME (EXPENSES):
Interest expense			(322,577	)		(445	)
Other income, net			32,542			9,182

	Total Other Income (Expenses), net		(290,035	)		8,737

NET LOSS		$	(2,079,663	)	$	(2,752,309	)


Basic and Diluted Net Loss Per Share		$	(0.18	)	$	(0.38	)


Weighted Average Shares-Basic and Diluted			11,390,016			7,306,949

DUOS TECHNOLOGIES GROUP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS

		March 31,			December 31,
			2025			2024
		(Unaudited)
ASSETS
CURRENT ASSETS:
	Cash	$	3,799,281		$	6,266,296
	Accounts receivable, net		215,060			109,007
	Accounts receivable, net – related parties		1,760,625			294,434
	Contract assets		700,458			635,774
	Inventory		520,122			605,356
	Prepaid expenses and other current assets		468,252			176,338
	Note receivable, net		–			–

	Total Current Assets		7,463,798			8,087,205

	Inventory – non current		196,315			196,315
	Property and equipment, net		3,300,754			2,771,779
	Operating lease right of use asset – Office Lease		3,937,256			4,028,397
	Financing lease right of use asset – Edge Data Centers		1,943,547			2,019,180
	Security deposit		500,000			500,000

OTHER ASSETS:
	Equity Method Investment – Sawgrass APR Holdings LLC		7,233,000			7,233,000
	Intangible Asset, net		9,043,996			9,592,118
	Patents and trademarks, net		133,714			127,300
	Software development costs, net		334,960			403,383
	Total Other Assets		16,745,670			17,355,801

TOTAL ASSETS		$	34,087,340		$	34,958,677

LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY

CURRENT LIABILITIES:
	Accounts payable	$	698,518		$	969,822
	Notes payable – financing agreements		129,914			17,072
	Accrued expenses		451,130			373,251
	Operating lease obligation – Office Lease -current portion		803,536			798,556
	Financing lease obligations – Edge Data Centers – current portion		487,695			367,451
	Notes payable, net of discount – related parties		1,027,707			1,758,396
	Contract liabilities, current		3,001,352			3,188,518
	Contract liabilities, current – related parties		7,366,500			8,616,500

	Total Current Liabilities		13,966,352			16,089,566

	Contract liabilities, less current portion		6,851,513			7,399,634
	Contract liabilities, less current portion – related parties		2,712,375			3,616,500
	Operating lease obligation – Office Lease, less current portion		3,767,106			3,867,042
	Financing lease obligations – Edge Data Centers, less current portion		1,638,040			1,724,604

	Total Liabilities		28,935,386			32,697,346

Commitments and Contingencies (Note 8)

STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY:
	Preferred stock: $0.001 par value, 10,000,000 authorized, 9,441,000 shares available to be designated
	Series A redeemable convertible preferred stock, $10 stated value per share,		–			–
	500,000 shares designated; 0 and 0 issued and outstanding at March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024, respectively,
	convertible into common stock at $6.30 per share
	Series B convertible preferred stock, $1,000 stated value per share,		–			–
	15,000 shares designated; 0 and 0 issued and outstanding at March 31, 2025
	and December 31, 2024, respectively, convertible into common stock at $7 per share
	Series C convertible preferred stock, $1,000 stated value per share,		–			–
	5,000 shares designated; 0 and 0 issued
	and outstanding at March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024, respectively,
	convertible into common stock at $5.50 per share
	Series D convertible preferred stock, $1,000 stated value per share,		1			1
	4,000 shares designated; 999 and 1,299 issued
	and outstanding at March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024, respectively,
	convertible into common stock at $3.00 per share
	Series E convertible preferred stock, $1,000 stated value per share,
	30,000 shares designated; 13,500 and 13,500 issued
	and outstanding at March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024, respectively,		14			14
	convertible into common stock at $2.61 per share
	Series F convertible preferred stock, $1,000 stated value per share,
	5,000 shares designated; 0 and 0 issued
	and outstanding at March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024, respectively,		–			–
	convertible into common stock at $6.20 per share

	Common stock: $0.001 par value; 500,000,000 shares authorized,
	11,655,229 and 8,922,576 shares issued, 11,653,905 and 8,921,252		11,654			8,921
	shares outstanding at March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024, respectively
	Additional paid-in-capital		81,745,409			76,777,856
	Accumulated deficit		(76,447,672	)		(74,368,009	)
	Sub-total		5,309,406			2,418,783
	Less: Treasury stock (1,324 shares of common stock
	at March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024)		(157,452	)		(157,452	)
Total Stockholders’ Equity			5,151,954			2,261,331

Total Liabilities and Stockholders’ Equity		$	34,087,340		$	34,958,677

DUOS TECHNOLOGIES GROUP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS
(Unaudited)

	For the Three Months Ended
	March 31,
		2025			2024

Cash from operating activities:
Net loss	$	(2,079,663	)	$	(2,752,309	)
Adjustments to reconcile net loss to net cash used in operating activities:
Depreciation and amortization		712,388			158,208
Inventory write-off		25,000			–
Stock based compensation		995,647			159,320
Stock issued for services		50,000			37,500
Amortization of debt discount related to warrant liabilities		269,311			–
Amortization of operating lease right of use asset – Office Lease		91,142			83,348
Amortization of lease right of use asset – Edge Data Centers		75,633			–
Changes in assets and liabilities:
Accounts receivable		(106,053	)		866,373
Accounts receivable-related parties		(1,466,191	)		–
Note receivable		–			(1,875	)
Contract assets		(64,684	)		(270,099	)
Inventory		10,624			23,828
Prepaid expenses and other current assets		(42,467	)		57,944
Accounts payable		(271,304	)		(415,718	)
Accrued expenses		77,879			76,370
Operating lease obligation – Office Lease		(94,956	)		(82,306	)
Lease obligations – Edge Data Centers		33,680			–
Contract liabilities		(2,889,411	)		26,697

Net cash used in operating activities		(4,673,425	)		(2,032,719	)

Cash flows from investing activities:
Purchase of patents/trademarks		(9,264	)		(980	)
Purchase of fixed assets		(572,359	)		(8,830	)

Net cash used in investing activities		(581,623	)		(9,810	)

Cash flows from financing activities:
Repayments on financing agreements		(136,606	)		(130,535	)
Repayments of notes payable, related parties		(1,000,000	)		–
Proceeds from common stock issued		3,954,940			–
Proceeds from excercise of stock options		107,925			–
Stock issuance cost		(138,226	)		(36,188	)
Proceeds from preferred stock issued		–			2,745,002

Net cash provided by financing activities		2,788,033			2,578,279

Net increase (decrease) in cash		(2,467,015	)		535,750
Cash, beginning of period		6,266,296			2,441,842
Cash, end of period	$	3,799,281		$	2,977,592

Supplemental Disclosure of Cash Flow Information:
Interest paid	$	3,865		$	–
Taxes paid	$	15,945		$	–

Supplemental Non-Cash Investing and Financing Activities:
Notes issued for financing of insurance premiums	$	249,448		$	272,322
Transfer of inventory to fixed assets	$	49,609		$	–

A photo accompanying this announcement is available at https://www.globenewswire.com/NewsRoom/AttachmentNg/9b5abe56-f21b-4ee5-9a09-7f9852d9bd2b

This press release was published by a CLEAR® Verified individual.

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May 16, 2025

MIL-OSI USA: NASA Satellite Images Could Provide Early Volcano Warnings

Source: NASA

Scientists know that changing tree leaves can indicate when a nearby volcano is becoming more active and might erupt. In a new collaboration between NASA and the Smithsonian Institution, scientists now believe they can detect these changes from space.
As volcanic magma ascends through the Earth’s crust, it releases carbon dioxide and other gases which rise to the surface. Trees that take up the carbon dioxide become greener and more lush. These changes are visible in images from NASA satellites such as Landsat 8, along with airborne instruments flown as part of the Airborne Validation Unified Experiment: Land to Ocean (AVUELO).
Ten percent of the world’s population lives in areas susceptible to volcanic hazards. People who live or work within a few miles of an eruption face dangers that include ejected rock, dust, and surges of hot, toxic gases. Further away, people and property are susceptible to mudslides, ashfalls, and tsunamis that can follow volcanic blasts. There’s no way to prevent volcanic eruptions, which makes the early signs of volcanic activity crucial for public safety. According to the U.S. Geological Survey, NASA’s Landsat mission partner, the United States is one of the world’s most volcanically active countries.

When magma rises underground before an eruption, it releases gases, including carbon dioxide and sulfur dioxide. The sulfur compounds are readily detectable from orbit. But the volcanic carbon dioxide emissions that precede sulfur dioxide emissions – and provide one of the earliest indications that a volcano is no longer dormant – are difficult to distinguish from space.
The remote detection of carbon dioxide greening of vegetation potentially gives scientists another tool — along with seismic waves and changes in ground height—to get a clear idea of what’s going on underneath the volcano. “Volcano early warning systems exist,” said volcanologist Florian Schwandner, chief of the Earth Science Division at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley, who had teamed up with Fisher and Bogue a decade ago. “The aim here is to make them better and make them earlier.”
“Volcanoes emit a lot of carbon dioxide,” said volcanologist Robert Bogue of McGill University in Montreal, but there’s so much existing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere that it’s often hard to measure the volcanic carbon dioxide specifically. While major eruptions can expel enough carbon dioxide to be measurable from space with sensors like NASA’s Orbiting Carbon Observatory 2, detecting these much fainter advanced warning signals has remained elusive. “A volcano emitting the modest amounts of carbon dioxide that might presage an eruption isn’t going to show up in satellite imagery,” he added.

Because of this, scientists must trek to volcanoes to measure carbon dioxide directly. However, many of the roughly 1,350 potentially active volcanoes worldwide are in remote locations or challenging mountainous terrain. That makes monitoring carbon dioxide at these sites labor-intensive, expensive, and sometimes dangerous.
Volcanologists like Bogue have joined forces with botanists and climate scientists to look at trees to monitor volcanic activity. “The whole idea is to find something that we could measure instead of carbon dioxide directly,” Bogue said, “to give us a proxy to detect changes in volcano emissions.”
“There are plenty of satellites we can use to do this kind of analysis,” said volcanologist Nicole Guinn of the University of Houston. She has compared images collected with Landsat 8, NASA’s Terra satellite, ESA’s (European Space Agency) Sentinel-2, and other Earth-observing satellites to monitor trees around the Mount Etna volcano on the coast of Sicily. Guinn’s study is the first to show a strong correlation between tree leaf color and magma-generated carbon dioxide.
Confirming accuracy on the ground that validates the satellite imagery is a challenge that climate scientist Josh Fisher of Chapman University is tackling with surveys of trees around volcanoes. During the March 2025 Airborne Validation Unified Experiment: Land to Ocean mission with NASA and the Smithsonian Institution scientists deployed a spectrometer on a research plane to analyze the colors of plant life in Panama and Costa Rica.

Fisher directed a group of investigators who collected leaf samples from trees near the active Rincon de la Vieja volcano in Costa Rica while also measuring carbon dioxide levels. “Our research is a two-way interdisciplinary intersection between ecology and volcanology,” Fisher said. “We’re interested not only in tree responses to volcanic carbon dioxide as an early warning of eruption, but also in how much the trees are able to take up, as a window into the future of the Earth when all of Earth’s trees are exposed to high levels of carbon dioxide.”
Relying on trees as proxies for volcanic carbon dioxide has its limitations. Many volcanoes feature climates that don’t support enough trees for satellites to image. In some forested environments, trees that respond differently to changing carbon dioxide levels. And fires, changing weather conditions, and plant diseases can complicate the interpretation of satellite data on volcanic gases.

Still, Schwandner has witnessed the potential benefits of volcanic carbon dioxide observations first-hand. He led a team that upgraded the monitoring network at Mayon volcano in the Philippines to include carbon dioxide and sulfur dioxide sensors. In December 2017, government researchers in the Philippines used this system to detect signs of an impending eruption and advocated for mass evacuations of the area around the volcano. Over 56,000 people were safely evacuated before a massive eruption began on January 23, 2018. As a result of the early warnings, there were no casualties.
Using satellites to monitor trees around volcanoes would give scientists earlier insights into more volcanoes and offer earlier warnings of future eruptions. “There’s not one signal from volcanoes that’s a silver bullet,” Schwandner said. “And tracking the effects of volcanic carbon dioxide on trees will not be a silver bullet. But it will be something that could change the game.”
By James RiordonNASA’s Earth Science News Team
Media contact: Elizabeth VlockNASA Headquarters

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May 16, 2025
MIL-OSI USA: Disaster Response: Master and Apprentice

Source: US State of Connecticut

Two UConn Health emergency medicine physicians are back from a medical mission in central Myanmar, which was devastated by a magnitude 7.7 earthquake March 28.

Drs. Rob Fuller and Caroline Lloyd are back at UConn Health after being part of the International Medical Corps response to an earthquake that devastated Myanmar March 2025. (Photo by Chris DeFrancesco)

The earthquake and aftershocks are blamed for more than 3,700 dead and 5,000 injured, compounding the humanitarian crisis in a country already dealing with political unrest and an overwhelmed health care system.

“Suffice it to say that the external reporting is a 10x underestimate of the actual impact and fatalities,” Dr. Rob Fuller reported from the capital, Nay Pyi Taw, more than 150 miles from the epicenter. “There is much political difficulty in entering and moving here.”

Fuller, who is UConn Health’s chair of emergency medicine, and Dr. Caroline Lloyd, in her second year in UConn’s International Disaster Emergency Medicine Fellowship, were part of an International Medical Corps response team. The IMC’s response got off to a slow start, largely due to a reluctance by the Myanmar government to embrace assistance from foreign organizations.

“There had been a smaller team from IMC trying for several weeks to open the door to allow us to come in and form those relationships, and assure the government we weren’t going to do anything they didn’t want us do to,” Lloyd says.

Myanmar is located in Southeast Asia’s Indochinese Peninsula.

“[IMC] flew into Bangkok right after the earthquake, and it took days to get permission to enter the country,” Fuller says. “Then after they got into the country, they tried to get the ear of the minister of health to say, ‘We’re an aid-providing organization and we’d like to collaborate with your responders,’ and it took a long time to get those OKs. And then the minister of security and the minister of foreign affairs had to approve. By the time all those barriers were out of the way, we were one of only two foreign non-government organizations allowed in to provide some health care.”

Lloyd and Fuller didn’t arrive until April 19, and by then the mission was to run a tent clinic in place of a key piece of health care infrastructure in Nay Pyi Taw that was lost to the quake.

“We were working at the site of a destroyed 300-bed hospital,” Fuller says. “We were seeing about 100 patients per day. The patients were seeking care for acute and chronic conditions as well as injuries related to the earthquake.”

Dr. Rob Fuller, UConn Health’s chair of emergency medicine, helps staff a tent clinic that replaced an earthquake-damaged hospital in Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar. (International Medical Corps photo)

“It was primarily handling outpatient care that they normally would have handled, with a smattering of patients sometimes popping in due to displacement or injuries that happened during the earthquake,” Lloyd says. “Every once in a while you’d get someone displaced by the additional conflict going on within the country, who had recently gotten out of that area and into this more-controlled governmental area. But overall, it was primarily outpatient. Lots of aches and pains.”

Lloyd served as a medical lead, overseeing clinic design, patient flow, and quality of care. Fuller says she was looking inward, to manage the clinic, while his role, as medical coordinator, was outward-looking, toward the community and other responding agencies.

“I didn’t have to do a lot of it, because there weren’t a lot of agencies to coordinate with, it was so controlled and closed,” Fuller says. “So I just did what Caroline told me, and saw patients under her guidance.”

Lloyd was there for a week, Fuller for two. They say the temperature was mostly in the triple digits.

Fuller was part of a team from UConn Health that responded to Ground Zero on Sept. 11, 2001. Since then, he has been part of IMC responses to disasters all over the world, including a tsunami in Indonesia, an earthquake in Haiti, a hurricane in St. Lucia and a typhoon in the Philippines.

This was Lloyd’s first overseas disaster response.

“I was in charge of staffing, the flow of how our tents worked, troubleshooting and changing things,” she says. “If we were in an enclosed area, we can’t have people who are coughing or have an infectious disease, how do we change our flow? They’re putting them in a different area, but then no one’s telling us that’s happening, so let’s have a discussion and fix that. Kind of the logistics of how it worked.”

Dr. Caroline Lloyd (left) and Dr. Rob Fuller (center) from UConn Health are among the American physicians who were part of the International Medical Corps response to the Spring 2025 earthquake in Myanmar. (International Medical Corps photo)

Lloyd says a physician who had done work with the IMC in Gaza told her this response was more complicated because of the controlling nature of Myanmar’s government.

“It’s one of those experiences where, now that you’re kind of removed and you can look back on it, you’re like, ‘If this is how this worked in probably one of the most difficult situations I think you could imagine, man, what’s it going to be like to do it in an atmosphere where someone actually legitimately wants you there?’ IMC has pallets and pallets of things that they have ready to come in; we couldn’t get any of those,” Lloyd says. “The government just didn’t let them in.”

The experience comes as Lloyd nears completion of her disaster emergency medicine fellowship and her Master of Public Health studies. But she won’t be gone from UConn Health for long; in August she’s returning as a faculty physician.

“This was an opportunity for Caroline to be able to go into a disaster,” Fuller says. “Every disaster’s got its own problems and its own flavors. This is just one, but this very controlled political environment was probably the weirdest part about this one. We were controlled where we can go, and what we can do, and how we operate was very managed by the political entities that we were working with. But even so, we set up tents in what was a field, we used car-park areas with tarps around them to deliver care for a couple days. Caroline was in charge of the campus, so she designed how the patients moved from place to place and how we cared for them and where things were. So it was a great experience for her.”

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May 16, 2025
MIL-OSI Video: Libya, Gaza, & other topics – Daily Press Briefing | United Nations

Source: United Nations (Video News)

Noon briefing by Farhan Haq, Deputy Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.

Highlights:
– Secretary-General/Travels
– Libya
– Occupied Palestinian Territory
– Security Council
– Democratic Republic of the Congo
– Democratic Republic of the Congo/Humanitarian
– Sudan
– Haiti
– Syria
– International Day of Families
– Briefings
– Financial Contribution

SECRETARY-GENERAL/TRAVELS
The Secretary-General left Germany in the morning and is now on his way to Iraq. Earlier today, in Berlin, he met with Frank-Walter Steinmeier, the Federal President of the Federal Republic of Germany. They discussed topics that included the situation in the Middle East and the partnership between the UN and Germany. 
Yesterday, he met the German Chancellor, Friedrich Merz, and he told reporters later that they had discussed, among other topics, the situations in Gaza and Ukraine.
While in Iraq, Mr. Guterres will attend the Arab League Summit. He will address the Summit on Saturday. He is also scheduled to hold a number of meetings with leaders and officials attending the summit, including leaders of the host country. He is also going to meet with our UN team in Iraq.

LIBYA
The Secretary-General takes note of the truce reached in Tripoli yesterday and calls on all parties to take urgent steps to sustain and build upon it through dialogue.
The rapid nature of the escalation, which drew armed groups from outside the city and subjected heavily populated neighborhoods to heavy artillery fire, was alarming. The Secretary-General is deeply saddened to hear of the deaths of at least eight civilians in the recent clashes.
The Secretary-General reminds all parties of their obligation to protect civilians and calls on them to engage in serious dialogue in good faith to address the root causes of the conflict.
The United Nations stands ready to provide its good offices to facilitate agreement on a path towards lasting peace and stability in Libya.

Full Highlights: https://www.un.org/sg/en/content/noon-briefing-highlight

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBBamMDpOHU

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May 16, 2025
MIL-OSI Video: ICC on Prosecutor’s report on Libya – Media Stakeout | United Nations

Source: United Nations (Video News)

Informal comments to the media by ICC Caucus on behalf of the members of the Security Council that are state parties to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court: France, Greece, Guyana, Panama, the Republic of Korea, Slovenia, the United Kingdom, Denmark and Sierra Leone, on the 29th report of the ICC Prosecutor’s Office to the Security Council on the situation in Libya.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEjPM2UVjOU

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May 16, 2025
MIL-OSI Video: Peacekeeping: Can mean difference between life and death – UN Chief | United Nations

Source: United Nations (Video News)

“Blue helmets can mean the difference between life and death,” UN Secretary-General António Guterres urged renewed global commitment to peacekeeping during the opening of the UN Peacekeeping Ministerial in Berlin, warning that operations are facing unprecedented financial and political pressure.

“My thanks to Germany for bringing us together at this consequential moment,” Guterres said. “This year marks the 80th anniversary of the United Nations organization was founded on the conviction that peace is possible if we work as one United’s human family. That is what our peace operations are about.”

Highlighting the symbolic and operational importance of the United Nations peacekeeping forces, the Secretary-General stated, “The UN Blue Helmets are the most globally recognized symbol of the world’s ability to come together to help countries move from conflict to peace.”

Guterres pointed to several countries that transitioned from war to stability with the help of UN missions. “There is a long list of countries that have achieved durable peace with the support of UN peacekeeping, including Cambodia, Cote d’Ivoire, El Salvador, Liberia, Namibia, Mozambique, Sierra Leone and Timor-Leste. Many of these countries now themselves contribute troops,” he said.

However, he also emphasized the human cost of these missions. “Through the decades, 4400 peacekeepers have fallen in the line of duty. Their service and sacrifice will never be forgotten,” he said, inviting participants to join him in a moment of silence.

As part of a broader reform process initiated by Member States, Guterres referenced the “Pact for the Future,” which calls for a comprehensive review of peace operations. “The review will examine how we can make peacekeeping operations more adaptable, flexible and resilient while recognizing the limitations in situations where there is little or no peace to keep,” he said.

He acknowledged the difficulties of operating in increasingly polarized geopolitical contexts. “We see increasing differences of views around our peacekeeping operations work, and then what circumstances with what mandates they should be deploys. And for how long,” he noted.

Guterres also addressed the challenge of shrinking financial resources. “Peace operations can only succeed when backed by robust mandates and clear, predictable and sustained contributions, both financial and logistical,” he stated. “It is crucial that we are able to use the increasingly limited resources we have and use them well.”

Concluding his address, the Secretary-General called for continued Member State engagement. “Supported at every step by Member States, we look forward to your government’s support and ideas as we tackle these challenges together,” he said.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tknyfzgCtqg

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May 16, 2025
MIL-OSI Security: US, Dominican Republic Militaries Partner to Develop Enlisted Leaders

Source: United States SOUTHERN COMMAND

A group of enlisted leaders from the United States Army kicked off a subject matter expert exchange with fellow enlisted leaders from the Dominican Republic’s military just outside of the Caribbean nation’s capital in Santo Domingo – further progressing the professional development of noncommissioned officers in the Dominican armed services.

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May 16, 2025
MIL-OSI USA: Kaine, Van Hollen, Schumer & Padilla Announce Timing for Senate Vote on Their Legislation to Demand Answers on Trump Administration’s Dealings with El Salvador

US Senate News:

Source: United States Senator for Virginia Tim Kaine
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (SFRC) and the lead Democrat on SFRC’s Western Hemisphere panel, together with U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-NY) and Alex Padilla (D-CA), announced that the full Senate will vote this afternoon on their privileged legislation to demand answers on the Trump Administration’s compliance with court orders applicable to U.S. citizens or residents wrongfully deported to El Salvador and regarding El Salvador’s horrific human rights record.
“If President Trump is going to cut secret deals to send people to foreign prisons without due process, every Senator—and the public—needs to understand the details about those deportations, including the human rights record of the nation putting American residents behind bars. This information is critical at a time when the Trump Administration has admitted to wrongfully deporting people to El Salvador, and after Trump has said he’s also looking for ways to deport American citizens to the same terrible prisons. Today, we will force a vote on our legislation to put all Senators on record on requiring some accountability from this lawless Administration.”
Full text of the senators’ legislation is available here.

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May 16, 2025
MIL-OSI USA News: President Trump’s Policies Keep Paying Off
Source: The White House
While President Donald J. Trump is in the Gulf region securing over a trillion dollars’ worth of investments in U.S. companies, deals on the home front keep coming:
- Sanofi announced it will invest at least $20 billion over the next five years in manufacturing and research and development.
- Kraft Heinz announced a $3 billion investment to upgrade its U.S. factories — its largest investment in its plants in decades.
- Carrier announced an additional $1 billion investment in manufacturing, innovation, and workforce expansion, which will create 4,000 new jobs.
- Anheuser-Busch announced a $300 million investment in its manufacturing facilities across the country.
- Siemens Healthineers announced a $150 million investment to expand production, including relocating manufacturing operations for its Varian company from Mexico to California.
That’s in addition to the trillions of dollars already secured in President Trump’s second term — investments that will bring tens of thousands of new, high-paying jobs to communities across the country as President Trump ushers in the new Golden Age.
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May 16, 2025
MIL-OSI USA: President Trump’s Policies Keep Paying Off

US Senate News:

Source: The White House
While President Donald J. Trump is in the Gulf region securing over a trillion dollars’ worth of investments in U.S. companies, deals on the home front keep coming:
Sanofi announced it will invest at least $20 billion over the next five years in manufacturing and research and development.
Kraft Heinz announced a $3 billion investment to upgrade its U.S. factories — its largest investment in its plants in decades.
Carrier announced an additional $1 billion investment in manufacturing, innovation, and workforce expansion, which will create 4,000 new jobs.
Anheuser-Busch announced a $300 million investment in its manufacturing facilities across the country.
Siemens Healthineers announced a $150 million investment to expand production, including relocating manufacturing operations for its Varian company from Mexico to California.
That’s in addition to the trillions of dollars already secured in President Trump’s second term — investments that will bring tens of thousands of new, high-paying jobs to communities across the country as President Trump ushers in the new Golden Age.

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May 16, 2025
MIL-OSI USA: ICE Boston removes Dominican national charged with larceny, drug crimes in Massachusetts

Source: US Immigration and Customs Enforcement

BOSTON — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement removed a Dominican national charged with drug trafficking and larceny charges in Massachusetts. Officers with ICE Boston removed Alixon Romero-Roa from the United States to the Dominican Republic April 8.

“Alixon Romero-Roa illegally entered the United States and immediately engaged in criminal activity,” said ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations Boston acting Field Office Director Patricia H. Hyde. “Romero apparently attempted to peddle poison in our Massachusetts neighborhoods, potentially ruining families and creating victims if allowed to continue. ICE Boston will not allow criminal alien offenders to continue creating victims in our New England communities. We remain steadfast in our duty to prioritize public safety by arresting and removing illegal alien offenders from our streets.”

U. S Border Patrol arrested Romero Oct. 3, 2021, after he illegally entered the United States near Rio Grande Valley, Texas.

On Oct. 22,2021, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services served Romero a notice to appear before a Justice Department immigration judge.

The Topsfield Police Department arrested Romero Dec. 4, 2021, and charged him with larceny over $250 by single scheme.

On April 27, 2022, a DOJ immigration judge ordered Romero removed from the United States to the Dominican Republic.

The Boston Police Department arrested Romero March 3 and charged him with drug possession with intent to distribute and drug trafficking. The next day, ICE Boston lodged an immigration detainer against Romero with the Nashua Street Jail.

“We are encouraged that our law enforcement partners opted to honor our immigration detainer in this case,” Hyde said. “It is refreshing that the Nashua Street Jail placed a priority on public safety. The alternative would be for ICE to send a team of officers to make an at-large arrest potentially placing the officers, the offender — and most importantly, the community — in harm’s way.”

On March 6, 2025, the Nashua Street Jail honored ICE’s detainer and released Romero into ICE Boston’s custody. ICE officers served Romero with a warrant of removal.

ICE Boston removed Romero from the United States to the Dominican Republic April 8.

Members of the public can report crimes and suspicious activity by dialing 866-DHS-2-ICE (866-347-2423) or completing the online tip form.

Learn more about ICE’s mission to increase public safety in our New England communities on X at @EROBoston.

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May 16, 2025
MIL-OSI USA: RAMPS Newsletter – Spring 2025

Source: US Geological Survey

Opening Letter

Hello RAMPS community,

In this newsletter, we are excited to highlight the release of the National Seed Strategy Progress Report for 2022 and 2023. The National Seed Strategy provides a roadmap for increasing the supply of genetically appropriate native seed for restoration in the US, and this new report highlights the critical role that USGS plays in providing research, scientific expertise, and tools to support native seed development and use. Our spring newsletter also includes updates on conference presentations and recently released publications. As always, please reach out to discuss any questions or potential collaboration opportunities for research and restoration in the Southwest.

RAMPS on the Road

Conferences provide an important opportunity for RAMPS to share relevant research updates with land managers and scientists while connecting with existing and new collaborations. So far in 2025, the RAMPS Team gave invited presentations on RestoreNet at the following symposia:

The Society for Range Management and National Native Seed Conferences were attended by a broad coalition of land managers, restoration practitioners, researchers and private landowners and ranchers. At the Native Seed Conference, RAMPS coordinator Laura Shriver also presented a talk, “Bridging theory and practice to improve native seed selection for restoration” with initial results from a literature review drawing comparisons between seed selection insights from the scientific literature and federal agency guidance for seed selection in practice. Laura also presented a poster summarizing information from the National Seed Strategy Progress Report for 2022 and 2023.

Project Highlights

National Seed Strategy Progress Report

RAMPS Coordinator, Laura Shriver, joined Plant Conservation Alliance leaders to write the National Seed Strategy Progress Report for 2022 and 2023. The report showcases the contributions of federal agencies and over 300 partners across the country to advance the National Seed Strategy, a pragmatic approach to meet the growing demand for native plant seed for restoration. In addition to summarizing data and project highlights, the report includes agency summaries outlining accomplishments, including from the USGS. The USGS provides essential research and scientific expertise to support the development and use of native seed for restoration, and the RAMPS program has led reporting efforts for all three National Seed Strategy Progress Reports.

REPORT CITATION: Plant Conservation Alliance (PCA). 2025. National seed Strategy Progress Report for 2022 and 2023. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, 64 pp.

Figure: Accomplishments in Native Seed Development. Submissions reflect advancements made at every stage of the Native Seed Development Process, including: Collection, where native seeds are harvested from wild populations, cleaned, tested, and banked for both long-term conservation and immediate seed increase; Evaluation and development, which involves research on species traits such as germination, pollination, and seed transfer zones; Field establishment, where agricultural protocols are developed for growing seed; Production, in which seeds are increased through agricultural practices; Procurement, where seeds are tested and purchased; Storage, where increased seeds are preserved for future restoration and rehabilitation; and Restoration, where native seeds are used to restore native plant communities. Figure from the National seed Strategy Progress Report for 2022 and 2023 (PCA 2025).

Picture: Covers of the Plant Conservation Alliance National Seed Strategy Progress Report for 2022 and 2023 (left) and the National Seed Strategy for Rehabilitation and Restoration (right).

Research Updates – New Publications

Natural resource management under drought and wildfire

In this study, RAMPS Ecologist, Seth Munson, and others developed a conceptual framework that links the scale and severity of drought and wildfire associated ecosystem impacts with management interventions. A Northern Arizona University researcher conducted surveys and interviews of natural resource managers on the Colorado Plateau to gain insight into their perceptions of the scale of drought and wildfire impacts, ecosystem responses to drought and wildfire, relationships between the scale and severity of impacts and associated natural resource responses, and perceived barriers to implementing management actions. Results of the collaboration indicated that resource managers experienced drought more frequently than wildfire, and perceived intensifying impacts to ecosystems resulting from both stressors. Results also indicated that resource managers recognized strategies to address the widespread impacts of drought and wildfire on ecosystems, but many adaptation-specific actions remained unclear or presented barriers for implementation. To overcome these barriers, the authors suggest improving effective science communication, refining information tailored to meet adaptation goals at management-relevant scales, and providing opportunities for adaptive management that can proactively address intensification of drought and wildfire.

CITATION: Munson, S.M., Vaughn, A.L., Petersen, B., Bradford, J.B. and Duniway, M.C., 2024. Natural resource management confronts the growing scale and severity of ecosystem responses to drought and wildfire. Ecology and Society, 29(4). https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-15517-290417

How does trait variability affect plant performance?

In this study, researchers from the USGS, BLM, and Northern Arizona University collaborated to explore the effects of variation of plant characteristics, or traits, of different populations of the same plant species on plant performance. They examined whether variation of traits influenced plant performance both at field sites, where seeds were originally collected, and in a New Mexico common garden. They found that variation of traits within the same species at field sites did not predict variability in the common garden and that greater trait variability did not consistently yield better plant performance, suggesting that trait variability among wild populations of the same species may have limited utility for predicting plant performance responses in restoration settings.

CITATION: Samuel, E.M., Mitchell, R.M., Winkler, D.E., Davidson, Z.M., Lencioni, S. and Massatti, R., 2024. Intraspecific trait variability in wild plant populations predicts neither variability nor performance in a common garden. Restoration Ecology, p.e14322. https://doi.org/10.1111/rec.14322

Declining ecological resilience and invasion resistance projected in the sagebrush region

This study, led by USGS scientists and partners from other federal agencies, used an ecohydrological model to quantify the impacts of projected future climate on ecological resilience and invasion resistance in the sagebrush region of the US. Results suggest widespread decreases of resilience and resistance, especially in sagebrush ecosystems, highlighting a growing challenge for regional natural resource managers. The authors suggest that spatially explicit datasets can provide information to improve long-term risk assessments, prioritizations, and climate adaptation efforts.

CITATION: Schlaepfer, D.R., Chambers, J.C., Urza, A.K., Hanberry, B.B., Brown, J.L., Board, D.I., Campbell, S.B., Clause, K.J., Crist, M.R. and Bradford, J.B., 2025. Declining ecological resilience and invasion resistance under climate change in the sagebrush region, United States. Ecological Applications, 35(1), p.e3065. https://doi.org/10.1002/eap.3065

RAMPS is a program of the USGS Southwest Biological Science Center located in Flagstaff, AZ

RAMPS engages stakeholders within the U.S. Department of the Interior, other federal and state agencies, Tribal governments, and on private lands to provide guidance and support for effective restoration strategies across the southwestern U.S. The RAMPS network consists of over 500 individuals representing 50+ agencies, organizations, and universities working together to increase land productivity and reduce threats posed by environmental hazards.

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May 16, 2025
MIL-OSI: XenDex Prepares to Unveil Platform as $XDX Presale Enters Final Countdown
Source: GlobeNewswire (MIL-OSI)

SYDNEY, May 15, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Following the successful completion of its soft cap and an influx of thousands of early adopters, XenDex is excited to confirm that Version 1 of its all-in-one decentralized exchange (DEX) is actively in development. A first-look mockup of the platform’s user interface will be revealed in the coming days, offering the community an exclusive preview of what’s to come.

XenDex V1 is being built as a sleek, intuitive, and beginner-friendly platform that integrates the most in-demand decentralized finance features, all designed specifically for the XRP Ledger. Key functionalities include AI-powered copy trading, non-custodial lending and borrowing, staking and yield farming, cross-chain trading, and DAO governance all seamlessly accessible from a single dashboard.

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XRP is currently experiencing renewed institutional interest following major milestones such as; SEC’s withdrawal of the Ripple lawsuit, Approval of ProShares’ XRP Futures ETF, Launch of Brazil’s first XRP Spot ETF etc.

With bullish sentiment returning to the market, analysts and speculators alike are projecting long-term targets as high as $1,000 per XRP. In this surging landscape, XenDex is emerging as the foundational DeFi layer for the XRP ecosystem, with $XDX fueling every key operation on the platform.

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$XDX Exchange Listings Confirmed

Upon conclusion of the presale, $XDX will launch on major exchanges, including:
- Binance
- Gate.io
- MEXC
- BitMart
- FirstLedger
- MagneticX
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XenDex Feature Highlights
- AI-Powered Copy Trading
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- Staking & Yield Farming
- DAO Governance
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Official XenDex Links

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May 16, 2025
MIL-OSI USA: Attorney General Bonta and 19 Attorneys General Issue Statement on Supreme Court Birthright Citizenship Oral Arguments

Source: US State of California

Thursday, May 15, 2025

Contact: (916) 210-6000, agpressoffice@doj.ca.gov

WASHINGTON, D.C. – California Attorney General Rob Bonta today, alongside a coalition of 19 attorneys general, issued a joint statement following U.S. Supreme Court oral arguments on President Trump’s unconstitutional executive order on birthright citizenship:

“We were proud to stand together to defend birthright citizenship and the rule of law at the U.S. Supreme Court today. For 127 years, since the Supreme Court settled the issue, the law has been clear: if you are born in this country, you are a citizen of the United States and of our States. Administrations of both parties have consistently respected that right ever since. As every court to have considered the policy agrees, the President’s attempt to end birthright citizenship is patently unconstitutional. The Trump Administration’s argument before the Supreme Court today—that the President should be permitted to strip American citizenship from people based solely on the state in which they happen to be born—would upend settled law and settled practice and would produce widespread chaos and disruption. The President cannot rewrite the Constitution and contradict the Supreme Court’s own holdings with the stroke of a pen.”

Joining Attorney General Bonta in issuing the statement are the attorneys general of Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington, and the District of Columbia.

On January 21, 2025, Attorney General Bonta co-led a multistate coalition in filing a lawsuit challenging the President’s unconstitutional executive order terminating birthright citizenship. The U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts subsequently granted a preliminary injunction barring the order from going into effect. The U.S. Supreme Court today heard oral arguments about whether the scope of the nationwide injunction we secured blocking the executive order from taking effect is legal and justified.

“The rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution belong to everyone in this country — not just those born in states whose attorneys general have stood up to challenge the President’s unlawful executive order. It’s clear that a nationwide injunction is not only appropriate here to avoid devastating harm to the states and their residents, but is also directly aligned with prior Supreme Court precedent,” said Attorney General Bonta. “Today’s oral arguments are one step in this important case’s progress — but it’s far from the end of the road. We’ll continue to be here, every step of the way, fighting to uphold and protect the constitutional right to birthright citizenship.”

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May 16, 2025
MIL-OSI USA: Attorney General Brown and a Coalition of Attorneys General Issue Joint Statement on Supreme Court Birthright Citizenship Oral Arguments

Source: Washington State News

SEATTLE — Attorney General Nick Brown and a coalition of attorneys general issued the following statement today after the Supreme Court’s hearing on birthright citizenship:

“We were proud to stand together to defend birthright citizenship and the rule of law at the U.S. Supreme Court today. For 127 years, since the Supreme Court settled the issue, the law has been clear: if you are born in this country, you are a citizen of the United States and of our States. Administrations of both parties have consistently respected that right ever since. As every court to have considered the policy agrees, the President’s attempt to end birthright citizenship is patently unconstitutional. The Trump Administration’s argument before the Supreme Court today—that the President should be permitted to strip American citizenship from people based solely on the state in which they happen to be born—would upend settled law and settled practice and would produce widespread chaos and disruption.

The President cannot rewrite the Constitution and contradict the Supreme Court’s own holdings with the stroke of a pen.”

Joining Attorney General Nick Brown in issuing the statement are the attorneys general of Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, and the District of Columbia.

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May 16, 2025
“Significant milestone”: EAM Jaishankar on inauguration of Honduras Embassy in Delhi

Source: Government of India

Source: Government of India (4)

External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar, speaking at the inauguration of the Embassy of the Republic of Honduras in New Delhi on Thursday, described the occasion as a significant milestone that opens a promising new chapter in the longstanding and warm relationship between the two nations.

Jaishankar extended his appreciation to Honduras for condemning the recent terror attack in Pahalgam. Addressing his counterpart, Eduardo Enrique Reina García, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of Honduras, he said, “Minister, let me first acknowledge the statement of solidarity from your country on the cowardly terrorist attack in Pahalgam. We value your public commitment to opposing terrorism in all its forms. It is completely unacceptable in any civilised world. We appreciate your support as we continue to battle terrorism in our region.”

The minister said that the opening of the embassy reflects the shared vision and commitment between India and Honduras to deepen bilateral ties and strengthen institutional cooperation. “I regard this not merely as a ceremonial event but as a testament to our mutual commitment to expand the frontiers of our collaboration,” he said.

He further added that the embassy signifies India’s aspiration to build strong partnerships across the Latin American region, rooted in values of mutual respect, solidarity, and shared progress.

Reflecting on the bilateral relationship since the establishment of diplomatic ties on September 28, 1994, Jaishankar highlighted steady growth across political, commercial, developmental, and cultural dimensions. “Our engagements have been guided by a spirit of friendship and a belief that international cooperation serves broader humanitarian interests,” he added.

Discussing economic relations, Jaishankar stated that bilateral trade now stands at USD 310 million, with India exporting pharmaceuticals, textiles, automobiles, and machinery, while importing coffee, wood, and leather from Honduras. He pointed out that the diverse trade basket demonstrates considerable potential for growth in sectors such as agribusiness, renewable energy, healthcare, IT, and manufacturing.

“During our productive talks earlier today, we agreed on the need to strengthen business-to-business linkages, foster investment partnerships, and explore complementarities while exchanging experiences relevant to Indian companies,” he said.

Highlighting Honduras’ strategic location and favourable investment climate, Jaishankar observed its potential in renewable energy and IT-enabled services. He also mentioned a recent collaboration between Hondatel, Honduras’ national telecom operator, and Reliance Jio, aimed at rolling out a 5G network in the country. “This collaboration marks a significant step in digital connectivity and technology innovation,” he added.

Expressing confidence in the embassy’s future role, Jaishankar said it would serve as a hub for trade promotion and business engagement. “The embassy will encourage entrepreneurs to use it as a base for matchmaking, provide institutional support, and facilitate greater initiatives and activities,” he said.

May 16, 2025
MIL-OSI: XRP News: XenDex V1 Launching Soon, Early Access Exclusive for $XDX Presale Buyers
Source: GlobeNewswire (MIL-OSI)

SYDNEY, May 15, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — After surpassing its soft cap and attracting thousands of early adopters, XenDex is proud to announce that Version 1 of its all-in-one decentralized exchange platform is actively in development and a first-look mockup design is set to be unveiled in the coming days.

The XenDex platform will feature a seamless, beginner-friendly interface integrating all key DeFi functions missing from the XRP Ledger: AI-powered copy trading, non-custodial lending & borrowing, staking & yield farming, cross-chain trading, and DAO governance, all in one sleek dashboard.

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And here’s the best part: Only $XDX presale holders will receive early access to XenDex V1.

Why Is Everyone Buying $XDX?

The timing couldn’t be better. XRP is surging on the back of ProShares’ XRP Futures ETF approval, Brazil’s first XRP Spot ETF, and the SEC’s full withdrawal of its lawsuit against Ripple. These landmark events have reignited bullish sentiment, and speculators are predicting $1000 XRP long-term as institutional adoption intensifies.

In this growing wave, XenDex is rising as the DeFi core of the XRPL, and $XDX is the fuel.

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Presale Final Stage – Time Is Running Out
- Soft Cap: Filled
- Current Rate: 1.25 XRP = 10 XDX
- Minimum Buy: 150 XRP
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Exchange Listings Confirmed

Following the presale, $XDX will be listed on major exchanges:
- Binance
- Gate.io
- MEXC
- BitMart
- FirstLedger
- MagneticX
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- AI-Powered Copy Trading – Mirror professional traders to maximize gains
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Join the XenDex Community To Learn More:

Website: https://xendex.net
Presale: https://xendex.net/presale
Telegram: https://t.me/xendexcommunity
Twitter/X: https://x.com/xendex_xrp
Docs: https://xdxdocs.gitbook.io

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May 16, 2025
MIL-OSI USA: Luján: Trump Administration Illegally Blocking Nearly $316 Billion Owed to Native Communities

US Senate News:

Source: US Senator for New Mexico Ben Ray Luján
WATCH Senator Luján’s Remarks in Senate Indian Affairs Committee
Washington, D.C.— A new tracker revealed that the Trump administration is blocking or freezing more than $430 billion in federal funding owed to communities across the country — including nearly $316 billion for national programs that support Indian Country and Native communities. The data reflects just how widespread the damage is — with funding for public safety, housing, disaster recovery, child care, transportation, infrastructure, and education either delayed or terminated, and whole agencies and offices closed down, cutting off vital services.
“The Trump administration is illegally withholding hundreds of billions of dollars owed to communities across the country – including nearly $316 billion owed to Native communities – just to hand out more tax breaks to the wealthiest Americans and corporate interests,” said Senator Luján, a member of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee. “This is a profound betrayal of Native communities and a shameful failure to uphold the federal government’s trust responsibility to Tribes. Blocking these funds has real consequences – stripping away vital resources from the health care, education, and child care services families depend on. This reckless decision puts the well-being and safety of New Mexicans and Tribal Nations at risk.”
As these cuts take effect, the Trump administration has imposed “Defend the Spend,” a sweeping new policy that requires grantees to justify spending line by line, even for items that have already been awarded. Grantees have received inconsistent guidance on how to navigate the new mandate, and many have faced significant delays in accessing funding they were already awarded — including funding for essential Tribal services.
At the same time, the Trump administration is proposing to slash $911 million — a 24% cut — from core Tribal programs in its Fiscal Year 2026 proposed budget. These cuts would gut basic services like public safety and justice, education and workforce training, Native American Housing Assistance and Self Determination Act (NAHASDA) housing grants, Native Community Development Financial Institutions Fund (CDFIs), forestry management, and programs for Native children and families. They would also nearly eliminate funding to construct or repair Tribal schools, which are already chronically underfunded, and reduce support for Tribal law enforcement by 20 percent. As the economy slows and prices rise due to President Trump’s policies, these devastating cuts and burdensome new processes would make life harder in Native communities.
If you or your community has been impacted by withheld or terminated federal funding, you are encouraged to share your story by emailing oversight@indian.senate.gov. Your name and contact information will be kept confidential. Please include the federal agency and program involved in your submission.

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May 16, 2025
MIL-OSI NGOs: Report: Deadly Gaps

Source: Médecins Sans Frontières –

In September 2025, the Global Fund, the main funder of a worldwide response to HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria, will host its eighth replenishment conference, where donor countries will make pledges to fund its vital, life-saving work.

Ahead of the conference, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has released a report based on our experience with the communities we serve. This report highlights the challenges this replenishment faces, including the impact of shrinking donor support. Without sufficient funding there will be antiretroviral, antimalarial and tuberculosis drug stockouts, people will travel long distances only to be turned away at dispensaries, community health workers will go unpaid or under-supported, and critical prevention activities will be neglected. These challenges are not confined to ‘fragile’ settings. People in countries with functioning health systems that are simply under-resourced will also feel the impacts.

This report references findings from Burundi, Central African Republic (CAR), Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Guinea, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Pakistan, Philippines, South Sudan, and Sudan.

The stakes for replenishment are high. Now is the time to step up—to protect gains made and ensure a future where HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria do not threaten millions of lives.

Deadly Gaps: Executive Summary pdf — 3.37 MB Download

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MIL-OSI United Kingdom: UK advocates clean energy development in Honduras
Source: United Kingdom – Executive Government & Departments
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An official from the UK’s Department of Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) engaged with stakeholders in Honduras to advance energy transition.
Mitchell Lloyd, Senior Policy Advisor on International Energy Transition at DENZ visited Honduras 15-16 May. He met with the Secretary of Energy, other government departments, private sector and international financing institutions developing clean energy initiatives in Honduras.

The discussions included a series of topics ranging from the need to galvanize global and local leadership and foster international cooperation on a clean energy transition, to unlocking clean growth, job opportunities and build robust clean energy supply chains.

Honduras aims to achieve an 80% share of renewables in power generation by 2038. The country has high-quality solar potential for electricity production, and hydropower has historically been a significant contributor.

The visit supports the UK’s government mission to become a clean energy superpower, protecting households from unstable fossil fuel markets, including coal, while at the same time unlocking job opportunities at home and abroad for the clean energy sector.

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May 16, 2025
MIL-OSI USA: Newhouse Introduces Legislation Strengthening U.S. Seaports

Source: United States House of Representatives – Congressman Dan Newhouse (4th District of Washington)

Headline: Newhouse Introduces Legislation Strengthening U.S. Seaports

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Rep. Dan Newhouse (WA-04) introduced legislation to close a loophole exploited by foreign shippers who circumvent United States seaports and divert cargo to ports in Canada and Mexico to avoid paying the U.S. harbor maintenance tax (HMT).

“We have an opportunity to expand the United States’ position as a leader in global trade, and we can only achieve that by strengthening and modernizing our port infrastructure.” said Rep. Newhouse. “Foreign shippers have been circumventing U.S. seaports, especially on the west coast, in order to avoid paying the harbor maintenance tax, resulting in a depleted maintenance fund. My legislation eliminates this costly loophole, ensures foreign shippers are paying their fair share, and strengthens our seaport infrastructure to deliver goods to consumers more efficiently.”

The legislation is supported by the Northwest Seaport Alliance and SSA Marine.

Toshiko Hasegawa, Northwest Seaport Alliance Co-Chair and Port of Seattle Commission President, said, “For decades, the Harbor Maintenance Tax has created a competitive disadvantage for U.S. ports like Seattle and Tacoma to other ports in North America. We are deeply grateful for Congressman Newhouse’s leadership in championing this issue and introducing this legislation to level the playing field by eliminating the incentive to divert U.S.-bound cargo through non-U.S. ports.”

John McCarthy, Northwest Seaport Alliance Co-Chair and Port of Tacoma Commission President, said, “Washington is one of the most trade-dependent states in the nation, and maintaining the NWSA’s position as a competitive, top-tier cargo gateway is critical to providing market access to agricultural producers. We thank Congressman Newhouse for working to uphold a strong, competitive supply chain by ensuring taxes are applied fairly to all US-bound cargo regardless of port of entry.”

Uffe Ostergaard, CEO of Carrix, said, “For over 30 years, Pacific Northwest ports have been disadvantaged by the Harbor Maintenance Tax, which has made these U.S. ports less competitive and has driven cargo volumes to alternative gateways. We are grateful to Congressman Newhouse for his leadership on this critical legislation to provide a more level playing field, support U.S. jobs, and bolster key export communities in Washington State.”

The fee would be 0.125% of the value, equal to the HMT, of U.S.-bound cargo that is discharged from an ocean-going vessel in Canada or Mexico and subsequently enters the U.S.

The HMT is an ad valorem tax that funds Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) activities to maintain U.S. seaports. U.S.-bound cargo from overseas trading partners that arrives at Canadian or Mexican ports and then enters the U.S. is not subject to paying the HMT.

The U.S. Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund lost nearly $600 million in revenue over the last ten years due to the $466 billion in imports that avoided the HMT by moving through a Canadian or Mexican seaport before entering the U.S.

Bringing these circumvented imports back to U.S. ports is critical for USACE’s duty to keep America’s harbors and rivers maintained and support economic growth.

Earlier this year, the Congressman visited the Port of Seattle and saw firsthand the impact circumvented cargo has on port operations.

See full bill text here.

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May 16, 2025
MIL-OSI Global: How a toxic seaweed choking Caribbean beaches could become a valuable resource

Source: The Conversation – UK – By Emily Wilkinson, Principal Research Fellow, ODI Global

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Each year, between March and October, large amounts of brown seaweed called sargassum wash up on the shores of Caribbean islands – choking beaches, damaging marine life and threatening tourism and public health. But a number of local entrepreneurs are hoping the seaweed could create an economic opportunity.

From the coast of west Africa to the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico, climate change is warming the temperature of the ocean. Seas are also becoming more acidic as water absorbs carbon dioxide. This all results in more intense growth of sargassum in the tropical Atlantic.

Small Caribbean nations are among the hardest hit. With 20 million tonnes of this seaweed washing up on the beaches in 2024, sargassum is fuelling an economic and public health crisis.

The piles of noxious seaweed on the Caribbean islands’ white sandy beaches are putting off visitors to these islands and probably dampening tourism revenues.

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The fishing sector is also suffering, with blooms of seaweed getting caught up in fishing nets, often ripping them due to the weight of the seaweed. This makes it hard for fishers to catch fish and make a living.

The sheer volume of sargassum left to decompose on land produces toxic fumes that have forced people on islands like Guadeloupe to leave their homes. These toxic fumes have been linked to serious health issues including respiratory infections, sleep apnoea and even preeclampsia (high blood pressure during pregnancy).

The sargassum problem is just one of many slow-onset events that are being exacerbated by climate change. But gradual changes get much less attention or resources to address the consequences than, say, alarming wildfires or flash floods.

Slow-onset events are also much harder to quantify than climate-change-induced extreme weather, such as worsening hurricanes or floods. Our team at ODI Global, a thinktank, recently published a study that estimated the cost of these at US$2,000 (£1,500) per person. Calculating the tourism lost each year due to seaweed inundation is trickier.

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Despite these challenges, through small-scale, locally developed solutions, as well as government policies that support small businesses including helping them access climate finance, entrepreneurs can find sustainable solutions to help their populations thrive in an era of climate change.

Legena Henry, a lecturer at the University of the West Indies in Barbados, uses sargassum to produce a biofuel that can power cars. Johanan Dujon, the founder and chief executive of St. Lucia-based Algas Organics sells plant tonics made from sargassum and is trialling methods to convert sargassum into paper.

Meanwhile, other innovations are helping to minimise the impacts of sargassum in the region.

Andrés León, founder of SOS Carbon, a spin-off organisation from the mechanical engineering department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has designed a boat-based harvester to collect sargassum at sea to stop it from beaching and causing damage onshore.

Some islands, such as Jamaica, are using early warning systems, typically used to predict hurricanes, to predict the ocean currents that might bring a bumper arrival of the seaweed to their shores. This could give fishers up to 30 days notice of just how bad the inundation will be.

Barriers to scale up

But while small businesses are emerging, turning them into larger enterprises across the region remains difficult. As usual, small island nations struggle to get funding because investors think the projects are too small and won’t make enough money.

As Legena Henry recently told us on the Small Island Big Picture podcast, spending a few million dollars (as opposed to a few hundred million dollars) can feel administratively cumbersome for funders as they often have limited administrative capacity and large sums of money to manage.

Another issue is ensuring the benefits from any sargassum solutions flow into the affected Caribbean islands to support local growth and economic development.

Several opportunities exist for small island nations to generate some income from sargassum. They could, for example, sell licences to permit companies to harvest sargassum within their exclusive economic zones, which can stretch around many islands for hundreds of nautical miles.

They can also sell licences to businesses trialling or operating new sargassum technologies within their exclusive economic zones — for example, SOS Carbon has a patent pending for technology designed to sink sargassum to the seabed to store carbon.

Will sargassum continue to be a nuisance, or could it be an important renewable natural resource? It’s not yet clear.

Ideally, as with other renewable natural resources in developing countries, small island nations that own the sargassum need to find ways to extract a fair share of the value from that ownership, as well as selling to external companies that come in, remove it and profit from it.

With tax incentives and low-cost finance for domestic innovators, small islands can manage and sell sargassum and then use the proceeds to develop climate resilience measures.

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Emma Tompkins received funding for work on sargassum from the Economic and Social Research Council GCRF (Grant number: ES/T002964/1)

Emily Wilkinson does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.

– ref. How a toxic seaweed choking Caribbean beaches could become a valuable resource – https://theconversation.com/how-a-toxic-seaweed-choking-caribbean-beaches-could-become-a-valuable-resource-253874

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May 16, 2025
MIL-OSI USA: Luján, Colleagues Introduce Bipartisan Bill to Combat Devastating Screwworm Outbreak

US Senate News:

Source: US Senator for New Mexico Ben Ray Luján

Legislation Would Create Facility to Curb New World Screwworm Population Growth

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senators Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) and John Cornyn (R-Texas) introduced the Bipartisan Strengthening Tactics to Obstruct the Population of Screwworms (STOP Screwworms) Act, which wouldauthorize funds for and direct the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to begin construction on a new sterile fly production facility to combat the growing New World screwworm (NWS) outbreak that threatens to wreak havoc on the American cattle industry. Additional cosponsors of this legislation include Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Ted Cruz (R-Texas), and Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.). Congressman Tony Gonzales (R-Texas) was the lead sponsor of the House version.

“Given the current screwworm outbreak, Congress must take immediate action to help protect New Mexico’s cattle and livestock from this growing threat,” said Senator Luján, a member of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. “This bipartisan legislation will fund a new sterile fly facility to help stop the spread of the destructive New World screwworm and protect New Mexico’s 1.4 million cattle and calves. This is a critical investment that supports over 10,000 cattle farms and ranches in New Mexico, saves the U.S. livestock industry nearly $1 billion each year, and helps prevent an outbreak in the U.S.”

“Combatting the destructive New World screwworm is vital to protecting our cattle, Texas producers, and the American livestock industry as a whole,” said Senator Cornyn. “I am proud to lead this legislation to create a new facility dedicated to pushing these pests away from our border and will continue to work with Secretary Rollins and agriculture leaders across the state to ensure our farmers, ranchers, and producers have the resources they need.”

“The New World Screwworm poses a growing threat to New Mexico livestock, jeopardizing ranchers’ livelihoods, and putting our food supply at risk. I’m proud to join Senators Cornyn and Luján to introduce bipartisan legislation that will help us tackle this problem now and prevent outbreaks in the future,” said Senator Heinrich, a member of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, and the Food and Drug Administration.”

“Texas agriculture and livestock are a core part of the Texas economy, and they feed America and the world,” said Senator Cruz. “I’m working daily with Secretary Rollins, Texas authorities, and my colleagues in Congress to safeguard Texas from threats including the New World Screwworm, and pushing Mexico to implement their commitments to eradication. This bill will advance those efforts, and Congress should pass it.”

“Ag producers across America are sounding the alarm—the New World Screwworm is making a comeback, and our livestock industry is in real danger. We need to fully eradicate this pest before it’s too late,” said Rep. Gonzales. “The STOP Screwworms Act provides dedicated resources to do just that. By authorizing the construction of a new sterile fly facility in the United States, we reduce our dependence on Latin American partners for eradication efforts and take matters into our own hands.”

“The recent screwworm outbreak is deeply concerning, and without immediate action and adequate preparation, the consequences for New Mexico’s cattle and livestock industries could be devastating,” said Larry Reagan, New Mexico Farm and Livestock Bureau President. “This legislation is a critical step in ensuring the nation is prepared to respond effectively and New Mexico’s farmers and ranchers are protected.”

Background:

The New World screwworm (NWS) is a parasitic fly whose larvae feed on livestock, wildlife, and in rare cases, humans, and populations are moving toward the United States at an alarming rate. They can cause serious damage to their host, including death. This week, the USDA announced the suspension of live cattle, horse, and bison imports through the southern border in response to the growing spread of the NWS and recent outbreaks in Mexico.

This new facility would produce sterile male screwworm flies that would be released into infested areas to help combat the growth of the screwworm population. The sterile fly technique was instrumental in eradicating NWS from the United States in the 1960s and from Mexico in the ‘90s, as sterile male flies can outcompete local populations and effectively wipe out an entire generation of screwworms in a given area.

This legislation is endorsed by the American Farm Bureau Federation, the New Mexico Farm and Livestock Bureau, the Texas Farm Bureau, the Texas Cattle Feeders Association, the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association, and the South Texans’ Property Rights Association.

Full bill text is available here.

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May 16, 2025
MIL-OSI NGOs: UK government must immediately close Wethersfield mass containment site for asylum seekers
Source: Médecins Sans Frontières –
A new report released by MSF shows how people staying in Wethersfield mass containment site in the UK are experiencing severe mental health distress.

Wethersfield continues to be used as an accommodation site for asylum seekers despite the government promising to end its use.

We call on the UK government to end the use of mass containment sites for asylum seekers and encourage the use of dignified and safe accommodation within communities.
For over one year, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), in partnership with Doctors of the World (DOTW) UK, ran a general healthcare mobile clinic outside the main gates of the former Royal Air Forces base at Wethersfield, in the United Kingdom (UK). Between November 2023 and December 2024, we documented how the isolated site, which accommodates up to 800 men aged between 18 and 65, causes immense harm.

A new report based on medical data and interviews with the men held at Wethersfield in 2024 highlights mental health distress amongst our patients and protection concerns at the site.

“A Lonely Place” How Wethersfield is harming asylum seekers pdf — 1.6 MB Download

“When I first saw the military camp, it was a reminder of the military camps in my home country. Very isolated atmosphere. You can’t socialise and you can’t learn,” says a resident at Wethersfield in 2024.

The top five countries of nationality of patients attending our mobile clinic were Iran, Eritrea, Afghanistan, Syria, and Sudan. As such, many have fled violence, persecution and conflict and will go on to be recognised as refugees by the UK government.

“Most of the consultations were for psychological problems. Many people felt anxious and stressed and said Wethersfield reminds them of previous difficult experiences such as imprisonment, torture or living in areas of conflict,” says Emma Withycombe, MSF’s medical activities manager. “It seems very cruel that people who have experienced so much hardship are now living here. The government has chosen to accommodate people in a place that causes harm.”

In the absence of safe alternatives, many people seeking safety are forced to risk their lives and take dangerous journeys to reach the UK.
The report reveals:

A lack of safe routes to the UK

Everyone who accessed our services had crossed the Channel by small boat. In interviews, participants described dangerous journeys to get to the UK. Three quarters of patients disclosed previous experiences of violence or abuse in their countries of origin and on their journeys to the UK.

Mental health impacted by the site

The men we interviewed spoke about the major impact the site was having on their mental health, as well as on the mental health of those around them. 62 per cent of those accessing our service presented with severe mental distress and 30 per cent reported suicidal ideation.

Serious failures to protect and safeguard

Our medical team observed that many individuals were accommodated onsite despite being ‘unsuitable’ according to the Home Office’s own guidance. We made a total of 226 safeguarding referrals due to concerns about individual patient safety and wellbeing.

“People are dying at the UK borders, dying in camps and hotels. Our patients in Wethersfield have survived conflict, persecution, and harrowing journeys to the UK with no safe route to asylum. The government should not be putting refugees into camps once they arrive here,” says Simon Tyler, Executive Director of DOTW.

Despite evidence that mass containment causes immense psychological harm and suffering, and the government’s own promises to end its use, Wethersfield remains open. In April 2025, Prime Minister Starmer refused to set a date for when the site would close.

“It is beyond comprehension that Wethersfield remains open, a site which has been the source of intense suffering for people who came to the UK in search of safety. From MSF’s work at the site, we know many of the individuals accommodated here have experienced violence and trauma and will have complex psychological needs,” says Jacob Burns, project manager for MSF. “We had hoped this Labour government would establish a dignified and compassionate asylum system. Instead, we are witnessing a continuation of the same inhumane and restrictive policies, that are fundamentally failing those who are most in need of care and protection.”

MSF calls on the UK government to:

Close Wethersfield immediately and end the policy of mass containment for people seeking safety in the UK.

Place people seeking safety in the UK in dignified and safe accommodation in the community.

Ensure access to specialist mental health support for asylum seekers in the UK.

Home Office accommodation sites must have clear and transparent safeguarding pathways in place before opening.

Open new and expand existing safe routes for people seeking safety to reach the UK.
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MIL-OSI Global: Pope Francis drew inspiration from Latin American church and its martyrs – leaving a legacy for Pope Leo

Source: The Conversation – USA – By Elizabeth O’Donnell Gandolfo, Associate Professor of Catholic and Latin American Studies, Wake Forest University

A mural of Roman Catholic Archbishop Oscar Romero decorates a wall in Panchimalco, El Salvador, May 21, 2015. AP Photo/Salvador Melendez

Pope Leo XIV’s election marks a historic moment: the first pope from an English-speaking country, and the first from the United States. Even more significant than these “firsts,” I believe, is a “second”: Leo follows in Pope Francis’ footsteps as a priest shaped by the Latin American church.

The new pontiff served the church in Peru throughout the late 1980s and ‘90s. Francis called him back to serve from 2015-2023 as bishop of the northern city of Chiclayo – where Catholics today are rejoicing over the election of one of their own, “un papa Chiclayano.”

As a Catholic theologian, I believe the College of Cardinals’ decision to elect another pontiff with such strong ties to Latin America reaffirms the continent’s influence on the global church’s sense of mission: to be a church that defends the marginalized and stands in solidarity with the oppressed.

This vision is embodied by the continent’s many Catholics who have given their lives for speaking out against repression, violence and poverty over the past 50 years – most famously St. Oscar Romero, whom Francis beatified in May 2015.

Having studied Latin American martyrdom closely, I would argue that Francis’ pontificate was at least partially inspired by these martyrs’ example, forged in blood. His decision to officially recognize this form of martyrdom adds to the legacy that many Latin American Catholics are hoping Leo will continue.

‘Church of the poor’

The Second Vatican Council, a series of meetings of bishops from around the world that took place between 1962-65, brought about a number of reforms in the Catholic church, including greater focus on the poor and vulnerable. During the council, a group of bishops gathered in the Catacombs of Saint Domitilla to sign a pact in which they committed themselves to renouncing wealth and privilege and becoming a “church of the poor.”

Many of these bishops were from Latin America, and in 1968, the Latin American Bishops’ Conference met to implement the council’s reforms. The documents that emerged from this meeting in Medellín, Colombia, encouraged closeness to people living in poverty and placed the promotion of justice and peace at the heart of the church’s evangelizing mission. In particular, they emphasized the church’s call to help liberate the oppressed from unjust social structures that produce poverty and violence.

Pope Francis, then a cardinal, kisses a man’s foot during a Mass with youth trying to overcome drug addictions in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 2008.
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Not all Latin American bishops embraced this vision of the church’s mission. But many took the call to solidarity very seriously, denouncing economic injustices and human rights violations. These bishops and other socially committed Christians promoted causes like land reform, agricultural cooperatives, workers’ rights and access to health care and education.

At the time, many Latin American countries were marked by vast inequalities, military dictatorships and violent political repression. These regimes, many of which were backed by the United States, often labeled any opposition as “communist” and a threat to national security.

Some Latin American bishops – along with many priests, nuns and laypeople – paid for their faith-inspired commitments to justice and peace with their lives. Thousands of Christians were assassinated during the late 20th century because they stood up for the rights of the poor, or they spoke out against oligarchs for hoarding wealth, land and power. Others were targeted after denouncing military regimes for massacring, torturing and “disappearing” civilians.

Within some sectors of Latin American Catholicism, these women and men are remembered as “martyrs”: people who, like Jesus of Nazareth, gave their lives for following what they saw as God’s mandate to speak the truth and practice compassion, justice and peace.

Pope’s recognition

During Francis’ pontificate, he officially recognized several of these Christians as martyrs, moving their cause for sainthood toward beatification and canonization. Beatification officially declares a person to be “blessed” and allows them to be venerated locally, while canonization makes them a full saint for the global church.

Students hold up art depicting slain Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero as they walk to the chapel in San Salvador where he was shot and killed.
AP Photo/Salvador Melendez

For example, Bishop Enrique Ángel Angelelli was assassinated in 1976 for his solidarity with the poor and defense of workers’ rights during Argentina’s Dirty War – a violent campaign of state terrorism against critics of the military junta. Francis declared him a martyr in 2018. The following year, Angelelli was beatified, along with two priests and a lay leader from the same province who were all similarly martyred just weeks before.

Archbishop Óscar Arnulfo Romero was equally committed to defending the poor of El Salvador during the years of armed conflict leading up to the Salvadoran Civil War. In his Sunday homilies, he named people who had been imprisoned, tortured and disappeared by military and paramilitary forces, and drew on the Gospel and church teaching to challenge the violence and oppression of the day.

His promotion of human rights and his demand that the military “stop the repression” led to his assassination while celebrating Mass on March 24, 1980. Francis declared Romero a martyr and beatified him in 2015, then canonized him in 2018.

Pope Francis views an image of Roman Catholic Archbishop Oscar Romero during a private audience at the Vatican in 2015.
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These actions placed a stamp of approval on how leaders like Angelelli and Romero embodied the church’s mission in their own time and place. But Francis’ recognition also made a broader statement about how the church should relate to the “powers and principalities” of the world. Throughout his papacy, Francis continued these martyrs’ commitment by standing with people on the “peripheries”: washing the feet of prisoners, defending the rights of migrants and demanding care for the Earth.

Martyrs of the Earth

In the 21st century, care for the Earth is producing a whole new generation of martyrs like Angelelli and Romero. Land and environmental defenders in Latin America and around the world are being assassinated for their work to mitigate harm from industries like fossil fuel extraction, mining, logging, ranching and more.

In September 2024, Francis signaled his awareness of this phenomenon when he lamented the murder of Juan Antonio López. López was a lay Catholic leader in Honduras whose faith inspired him to defend local communities, lands and rivers from open-pit iron oxide mining.

The Latin American bishops’ conference has taken note of this resurgence in violent persecution. In December 2024, it launched a campaign called “Life is hanging on by a thread,” promoting solidarity with the work of ecological and human rights defenders like López.

As a former vice president of the Peruvian bishops’ conference, Pope Leo XIV is likely aware of this campaign and the violence that it hopes to disarm.

The new pope had a close relationship with Francis, whose legacy looms large. A key inspiration for that legacy, however, is the witness of Latin American Christians whose blood has been shed for justice, peace and the environment.

Only time will tell if this new pontiff’s leadership continues their indomitable solidarity with people whom, in Francis’ words, this world has deemed to be “disposable.”

Elizabeth O’Donnell Gandolfo does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.

– ref. Pope Francis drew inspiration from Latin American church and its martyrs – leaving a legacy for Pope Leo – https://theconversation.com/pope-francis-drew-inspiration-from-latin-american-church-and-its-martyrs-leaving-a-legacy-for-pope-leo-255582

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