(Reuters) – A United Nations human rights expert called on the Dominican Republic and Haiti to resume talks to reach a quick, peaceful end to a total border shutdown launched by Dominican authorities on Friday, citing humanitarian and trade impacts.
(Trinidad Guardian) NiQuan Energy has been forced to put its plant to sleep (it is now offline) because it has neither natural gas nor permission to run it.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – On his first trip to Cuba during his third term in office, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva called the embargo imposed by the United States on the island “illegal” and denounced the island’s inclusion on the list of state sponsors of terrorism.
MEXICO CITY, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Lawmakers in Latin America are carving out new rights for the human brain in response to advances in neurotechnology that make scanning, analyzing and selling mental data ever more possible.
HAVANA, (Reuters) – Developing nations yesterday declared Sept. 16 the annual “Day of Science, Technology and Innovation in the South” as they prepared to wrap up a two-day summit on the subject.
(Trinidad Guardian) T&T’s largest bank, Republic Bank Ltd (RBL), last night advised its customers that it was cutting in half the maximum US dollar spending limit per billing cycle on their Republic Bank credit cards.
SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA, Spain, (Reuters) – As China loses its importance as a destination for German exports, the euro zone’s biggest economy is looking for new markets for its products and services in Latin America and the Caribbean.
MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Ovidio Guzman, a son of imprisoned Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, was extradited to the United States on Friday to face fentanyl trafficking charges, in a boost for the Biden administration’s push to curb the spread of the deadly opioid.
BOGOTA, (Reuters) – Colombian artist Fernando Botero, whose sculptures and paintings of playful, rotund subjects in sometimes harrowing situations made him one of the world’s richest artists, has died at 91.
SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA, Spain, (Reuters) – The European Union today threw its weight behind a plan to protect the Amazon rainforest, pledging to coordinate financial contributions from EU members and making sure the money was spent as intended under its Global Gateway investment scheme.
SANTO DOMINGO/ OUANAMINTHE, Haiti, (Reuters) – Hundreds of Haitians returned from the Dominican Republic yesterday after the Dominican president announced an imminent total border shutdown amid a conflict over the construction of a water channel from a shared river.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil’s Supreme Court voted yesterday to convict the first three people to stand trial for the storming of government buildings in the capital Brasilia on Jan.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. and Cuban officials made progress on a range of issues during high-level talks in Washington this week but were unable to narrow differences over the biggest disputes between the countries, Cuba’s vice foreign minister said yesterday.
(Reuters) – Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez said yesterday his country rejects the participation of its citizens as mercenaries in war, contradicting a statement by Cuba’s ambassador in Moscow hours earlier saying his government did not oppose the legal participation of its citizens in Russia´s war in Ukraine.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Negotiators for the European Union and Mercosur yesterday discussed the next steps towards completing their long-awaited trade deal after the South American trade bloc responded to a European addendum to the agreement, officials said.
SANTO DOMINGO/OUANAMINTHE, (Reuters) – The Dominican Republic will shut its entire border with neighboring Haiti from 6 a.m.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil is preparing to launch a center for international police cooperation to combat environmental crimes and drug trafficking in the Amazon rainforest by the end of 2023, Federal Police officials told Reuters.
PARAMARIBO, (Reuters) – TotalEnergies TTEF.PA will begin studies for developing a $9 billion oil and gas project at Suriname’s most promising offshore area, the French energy firm said yesterday during a visit by its CEO to the South American country.
BEIJING, (Reuters) – China and Venezuela signed several bilateral cooperation documents focused on various areas including economy, trade and tourism, China’s state broadcaster China Central Television (CCTV) said yesterday.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil has formally requested U.S. law enforcement assistance into probes that involve former President Jair Bolsonaro after his ex-aide agreed to cooperate with Brazilian investigators, two Brazilian Federal Police sources told Reuters.
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