PUYO, Ecuador, (Reuters) – Indigenous leaders from nine countries in the Amazon basin met in Ecuador yesterday and demanded South America governments halt extractive industries which damage the rainforest, urging them to respect agreements and legal rulings recognizing communities’ rights over territories.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – The government of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is seeking meetings with political and business groups, and unions, among others, so that they can join negotiations alongside opposition politicians led by Juan Guaido, it said yesterday.
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – A U.S. judge yesterday rejected a bid by a retired Venezuelan general to dismiss drug trafficking charges against him on the basis of foreign sovereign immunity, saying the doctrine does not apply to a “rogue state.”
GENEVA, (Reuters) – A U.N. expert told the world’s top rights body yesterday that she had received a preliminary invitation from Washington to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in what could lead to the first-ever visit by one of the body’s special rapporteurs.
(Reuters) – Peru’s Congress yesterday approved the start of impeachment proceedings against President Pedro Castillo over allegations of corruption after failing to gather enough votes in a previous attempt in December.
SANTIAGO, (Reuters) – Chilean President Gabriel Boric, who took office last week, said yesterday his government would balance plans to expand the Andean country’s social programme, while being fiscally responsible, a message likely aimed at the domestic business community and global investors.
(Reuters) – A London tribunal yesterday ruled that a 2018 Bermuda law that bans same-sex marriage in the British overseas territory is constitutional, a departure from the broad trend towards legalisation of gay marriage in the West.
MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Mexican and U.S. officials agreed to ramp up the modernization of border crossing infrastructure and processes, Mexico’s foreign ministry said yesterday.
RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – Brazil’s federal prosecutor’s office asked audit court TCU to investigate alleged interference by the government in oil company Petrobras PETR4.SA
(Trinidad Guardian) – KFC customers found an additional charge on their bills today, when the popular fast-food chain started charging for condiments with their meals.
(Reuters) – Bermuda’s aviation regulator said it is suspending certification of all Russian-operated airplanes registered in the British overseas territory due to international sanctions over the war in Ukraine, in a move expected to affect more than 700 planes.
(Trinidad Guardian) Well known social scientist, Professor Selwyn Ryan, has died.
(Trinidad Guardian) Nearly 20,000 foreign volunteers have signed up to fight in war-torn Ukraine against Russia’s invasion.
NASSAU, (Reuters) – The Bahamas has ordered its financial institutions to halt all transactions with Russian entities that have been put under sanction by Western nations, the country’s financial regulators said in a statement.
(Trinidad Guardian) With the United Nations Food Agency predicting a further 22 per cent rise in food prices in the coming months, hundreds of women staged protests under the watch of UNC activists as they jointly called on the Government to do more to boost local food production.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro criticized stiff price hikes for gasoline and diesel by state-controlled oil company Petrobras PETR4.SA
VATICAN CITY, (Reuters) – The Vatican yesterday protested to Nicaragua over the effective expulsion of its ambassador to Managua, saying the unilateral action was unjustified and incomprehensible.
MANAGUA, (Reuters) – A former Nicaraguan presidential hopeful and her brother were found guilty of several financial crimes on Friday, relatives of the two told Reuters.
MANAGUA, (Reuters) – A former Nicaraguan presidential hopeful and her brother were found guilty of several financial crimes yesterday, relatives of the two told Reuters.
VALPARAISO, Chile, (Reuters) – Chilean leftist Gabriel Boric was sworn in as president yesterday, vowing to listen to all sides while warning of the challenges ahead, as the Andean country marked the sharpest shift in its politics since the return to democracy three decades ago after the bloody dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet.
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