Forward With Roque

01/24/2023

“Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis wrote on Twitter: "Ukraine has more than earned our support and respect. It's time to send ATACMS missiles and unleash the Leopards." The latter was a reference to the German-made tank much desired by Ukraine.”

Colin Kahl, under-secretary of defense for policy, has said that Washington and Kyiv are in ongoing discussions about how to expand Ukraine's long-range strike capabilities.

12/27/2022

“(Sires has) to tell me, why did he allow Gabriel Rodriguez to be absent for four years and not do anything for the town,” said Roque, who served two terms (2011-2019) after stunning HCDO-backed Sal Vega. “He has to tell me that because he has been around. He’s been guiding this young man.”

Turner said Sires knew as soon as he decided to step down that he would want to return to politics in the city he led as mayor from 1995 to 2006.

12/13/2022

I would like to invite you my friends to a courtesy breakfast this Saturday, December 17 at 9:30 A.M. The location is Rinconcito Colombiano located at 6319 Bergenline Avenue, West New York. ‘Together We Can’ Felix E. Roque, M.D.,” Roque wrote in an Instagram story last night.

As the West New York mayoral matchup between Cirillo and Sires heats up, ex-Mayor Roque is set to host a "courtesy breakfast" on Saturday.

11/26/2022

"This action reflects longstanding U.S. policy to provide targeted sanctions relief based on concrete steps that alleviate the suffering of the Venezuelan people and support the restoration of democracy," the Treasury Department said.”

The U.S. government has awarded Chevron Corp. an expanded license to import oil from Venezuela following talks between the socialist Maduro regime and opposition leaders.

10/29/2022

Putin had long resisted declaring a mobilization in part to avoid the war being felt by middle class Russians from Moscow and St. Petersburg who are more likely to criticize and resist.

Some migrants in Russia have been swept into the ranks of the Russian military despite having no obligation to serve.

10/17/2022

Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, a Belarusian opposition leader and a 2020 presidential candidate now in exile, this week described any direct entry into the war by her country as “political suicide” for Lukashenko.

After a meeting with Putin last weekend, Belarus' leader, Alexander Lukashenko, told military and security officials that Ukraine, Poland and NATO were “trying to drag us into a fight.”

10/16/2022

“People have a right to seek asylum – regardless of where they came from, how they arrive in the United States, and whether or not they have family here,” said ACLU lawyer Lee Gelernt.”

WASHINGTON (AP) — Two years ago, candidate Joe Biden loudly denounced President Donald Trump for immigration policies that inflicted “cruelty and exclusion at every turn,” including toward those fleeing the "brutal" government of socialist Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela.

10/16/2022

“People have a right to seek asylum – regardless of where they came from, how they arrive in the United States, and whether or not they have family here,” said ACLU lawyer Lee Gelernt.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Two years ago, candidate Joe Biden loudly denounced President Donald Trump for immigration policies that inflicted “cruelty and exclusion at every turn,” including toward those fleeing the "brutal" government of socialist Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela.

09/11/2022

Eyvin Hernandez's family is pleading with the White House to bring him home, five months after he was arrested near the Colombia-Venezuela border and was supposed to return from vacation.

09/08/2022

Dr. Danielle Belardo says she's treating more patients under 30 with heart issues from taking supplements like ashwagandha, fish oil, and vitamins.

09/06/2022

The Russian Deputy Foreign Minister, Sergei Ryabkov, said last night in an interview with the Russian media outlet "Russia 24" that his country "will use nuclear weapons in the event of a threat to its existence

Ukrainian military forces in Kherson (Photo: REUTERS/Irakli Gedenidze Both armies are unwilling to take a risk and attack from all possible directions with all their heavy instruments and armaments to submit to the enemy. The Russian Deputy Foreign Minister, Sergey Ryabkov, warned in an intervi...

09/06/2022

“We don’t agree with the policy. We believe wholeheartedly that once our son took that oath and pledged his allegiance to this country, he was a military officer and the policy that they have, in our opinion, is a bad policy,” she said.

The family of Army 2nd Lieutenant Richard Collins III who was slain by a white supremacist in 2017 is seeking a proper burial.