SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Former leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva launched his presidential bid yesterday calling on Brazilians to unite behind him to defend Brazil’s democracy from the autho-ritarian government of far right President Jair Bolsonaro.
HAVANA, (Reuters) – Cuban rescue workers yesterday picked through rubble for bodies and possible survivors after a Havana boutique hotel was devastated by what authorities said was a gas explosion, leaving at least 26 dead.
(Trinidad Express) Two police officers have been charged with multiple misbehaviour in public office offences.
(Trinidad Guardian) Fifteen days after Western Division tactical officer PC Clarence Gilkes was killed during a police exercise in Diego Martin, three police officers have now been suspended, alongside a major shake-up in the division.
SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon surged to record levels for the month of April, nearly doubling the area of forest removed in that month last year — the previous April record — preliminary government data showed on Friday, alarming environmental campaigners.
BOGOTA, (Reuters) – At least 100 vehicles were destroyed on highways across northern Colombia in isolated attacks by the Clan del Golfo criminal gang, which announced an “armed strike” to protest the extradition of former leader Dairo Antonio Usuga, known as Otoniel, to the United States, the government said on Friday.
HAVANA, (Reuters) – A deadly explosion hit a well-known hotel in downtown Havana today, tearing a gash several floors high in the side of the building, killing at least 22 people and injuring upwards of 70, witnesses and state media said.
(Trinidad Express) Montrose Road, Chaguanas, was blocked with burning tyres last night as residents protested the murder of businessman, Darryl Dindial, who was shot dead in a robbery.
MIAMI, (Reuters) – The British Virgin Islands yesterday swore in Natalio Wheatley as the British overseas territory’s new premier following the removal of ex-premier Andrew Fahie, who was arrested on drug charges in Miami last week.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega’s son Laureano, an influential figure in the country’s leftist government, has reached out quietly to the Biden administration in recent months seeking to re-engage with the United States, according to people familiar with the matter.
RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – Brazil’s Petrobras posted a first-quarter net income that beat forecasts yesterday, just minutes after Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro railed against the state-run oil company’s profitability, saying its executives had no sympathy for ordinary people.
(Reuters) – Gun battles between rival gangs in Port-au-Prince have killed dozens in the past two weeks and forced thousands to flee their homes, Haiti’s civil protection authority and a U.N.
RIO DE JANEIRO/WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) director last year told senior Brazilian officials that President Jair Bolsonaro should stop casting doubt on his country’s voting system ahead of the October election, sources told Reuters.
MIAMI, (Reuters) – A U.S. judge yesterday ruled that Andrew Fahie, premier of the British Virgin Islands, will not face pre-trial detention while awaiting proceedings on charges that he conspired to launder money and traffic drugs into the United States.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said Russia never should have invaded Ukraine, but he believes Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy is as much to blame for the war as Russian leader Vladimir Putin.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – The leader of Haiti’s feared 400 Mawozo gang, which last year abducted a group of missionaries from the United States and Canada, has been extradited to the United States on Tuesday, the Haitian police said.
MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Mexico is working with governments of Argentina, Bolivia and Chile to create a lithium association so the countries can share their expertise to exploit the battery mineral, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said yesterday.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil’s Supreme Electoral Court (TSE) has withdrawn an invitation for the European Union to send observers for the October election after President Jair Bolsonaro’s government objected, the EU and the election body confirmed yesterday.
SANTO DOMINGO, (Reuters) – The Dominican Republic reinforced surveillance on the border with Haiti yesterday and announced an urgent search for one of its diplomats who disappeared there a few days ago.
LA PAZ, (Reuters) – Inmates in Bolivia’s overcrowded prisons are now able to reduce their jail time by reading books in a new program influenced by one in Brazil that aims to spread literacy and give hope despite a notoriously slow judicial process.
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