MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico has granted political asylum to former Ecuadorean Vice President Jorge Glas, the foreign ministry said on Friday, a day after Ecuador’s government made Mexico’s ambassador persona non grata amid growing tensions between the two countries.
PARAMARIBO, (Reuters) – The families of Surinamese activists slain for their opposition to the government in the 1980s say decades of suffering and sluggish legal proceedings have been prolonged by the apparent inability of authorities to locate the man at the center of it all: former President Desi Bouterse.
Cut all colonial ties, including use of the Privy Council as this country’s final court of appeal.
LIMA (Reuters) – Peru’s Congress on Thursday voted twice against formally debating the launch of a process to impeach under-fire President Dina Boluarte, who is facing a probe into her possession of expensive jewelry, including luxury Rolex watches.
(Trinidad Express) A mother has been arrested after being identified from a video posted on social media showing her verbally and physically abuse two young children.
RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – Indigenous people from nine villages in Brazil’s Yanomami territory were found to be contaminated by mercury, with those living closer to illegal gold mining sites presenting higher levels of contamination, a study released yesterday found.
(Reuters) – Diplomats at a regional Americas body yesterday urged Haitian politicians to move forward with a delayed plan to replace Prime Minister Ariel Henry with a transitional council, a move which could trigger the long-awaited deployment of an international security force.
(Reuters) – The son of a Dominican lawmaker was fatally shot at a gas station in Houston, Texas, according to police, who said yesterday they were searching for four men wanted for what they called a targeted killing.
HOUSTON, (Reuters) – Oil major Shell SHEL.L is seeking a long-term license from the U.S.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – More than 53,000 people fled Haiti’s capital in just three weeks of March as conflict between powerful armed gangs wreaked havoc for civilians, with the state largely absent and a path out of the chaos yet to be established by politicians.
PARIS, (Reuters) – Guadeloupe-born author Maryse Conde, who wrote about colonialism, slavery and the French-Caribbean diaspora, died in southern France at the age of 90.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – In just three years, Brazil’s hugely popular Pix payment system has become the country’s favorite way to pay, replacing cash and wire transfers in many cases and now threatening the dominance of credit cards in the booming e-commerce sector.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Panic set in around downtown Port-au-Prince yesterday as wild shooting filled the streets of Haiti’s capital, with heavy gunfire near the national palace.
LIMA, (Reuters) – Peru’s president replaced six ministers yesterday after they abruptly resigned, amid a fresh political scandal involving luxury watches that targets her, adding more volatility to the South American nation’s increasingly rocky politics.
(Trinidad Express) Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley on Sunday outlined several economic measures he said he was directly involved in to save the day for Trinidad and Tobago.
SAO PAULO/MARACAY, Venezuela, (Reuters) – Venezuela is battling a record number of wildfires, according to data released today, as a climate change-driven drought plagues the Amazon rainforest region.
HOUSTON/BUENOS AIRES, (Reuters) – Energy companies from Argentina and Brazil have begun talks on reversing the southerly flow of a Bolivian natural gas pipeline network that connects the three countries as a regional gas deficit could force Brazil to pay up for alternative supplies of the fuel.A
MOSCOW, (Reuters) – The Kremlin today dismissed a report that Russian military intelligence may be behind the mysterious “Havana syndrome” ailment that has afflicted U.S.
(Trinidad Guardian) A combination of alcohol, along with the noise emanating from an apartment above at Building 16, Oropune Gardens, Piarco, are believed to be what led a suspect to kill a father and son on Saturday.
(Trinidad Guardian) Kevin Francois’s last act as he came face to face with armed gunmen on Thursday night, was to shield his three-year-old son from the hail of bullets that cut him and his brother down.
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