BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Dilma Rousseff became Brazil’s first female president on Saturday and promised to build on an unprecedented run of economic success achieved by her popular predecessor and mentor, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – The South American trade bloc Mercosur and South Korea are considering launching talks to create a free trade area, Brazil’s foreign minister Antonio Patriota said yesterday.
(Barbados Nation) Mara Thompson, widow of late Prime Minister David Thompson, has confirmed that she is ready to contest the St John by-election on a Democratic Labour Party (DLP) ticket.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas thanked Brazil yesterday for recognizing his nation’s statehood with the first embassy in the Americas and said other countries were following suit.
BOGOTA, (Reuters) – One of Colombia’s most notorious drug kingpins, known as “The Knife” for his use of the weapon to mutilate victims, has died after an air raid in the Andean nation, the government said yesterday.
SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – To the list of accolades for Brazil’s wildly popular outgoing President Luiz Inacio da Silva, add the following: one of the country’s biggest new offshore oil fields will bear his name.
(Trinidad Express) Justice Minister Herbert Volney on Tuesday expressed optimism that a board will soon be appointed to deal with compensating victims of crime.
MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Armoured cars and body armour in Mexico are no longer exclusively for government officials, foreign executives and the super rich, as a raging drug war spreads across the country, leading to a spike in orders.
(Trinidad Guardian) – An earthquake of 4.7 magnitude at a depth of 40km shook parts of north Trinidad on Sunday.
GUATEMALA CITY, (Reuters) – Guatemala captured nearly two dozen suspected drug traffickers, automatic weapons and small planes in a country-wide sweep to crack down on Mexican cartels smuggling drugs through Central America.
(Trinidad Express) Low tourist arrivals and occupancy, trending downward in the last three years, have combined with other factors to make a perfect storm that is creating havoc on Tobago’s tourism industry, squeezing the life out of the hotel business and the island’s economy.
PANAMA CITY, (Reuters) – Panamanian President Ricardo Martinelli tried to bully the U.S.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Former Venezuelan President Carlos Andres Perez, who survived two coup attempts but was finally forced from office as the first Latin American leader to be convicted of corruption, died yesterday in Miami.
(Jamaica Gleaner) The Jamaican government is being tight-lipped about allegations that the wife of Prime Minister Bruce Golding tried to present the extradition request for Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke as a conspiracy against her husband and his Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) administration.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Jamaica’s Minister of Tourism, Edmund Bartlett is expressing regret at the passing of an Argentinean tourist who died in St.
(Barbados Nation) Two young men are dead following an altercation in Halls Road, St Michael on Wednesday.
(Trinidad Express) Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar on Tuesday outlined a three-step crime plan as she admitted that crime in this country was a “challenge” for her Government.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s opposition accused President Hugo Chavez yesterday of a “coup d’etat” after the outgoing parliament gave him the power to rule by decree for 18 months and pushed through a host of new laws.
(Go-Jamaica) There are worries that there could be a fallout in the tourist sector this winter following Tuesday night’s attack by gunmen on a prominent all-inclusive hotel in Negril Westmoreland.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s parliament gave President Hugo Chavez decree powers for 18 months yesterday, outraging opposition parties that accused him of turning South America’s biggest oil producer into a dictatorship. The move consolidated the firebrand socialist leader’s hold on power after nearly 12 years in office, and raised the prospect of a fresh wave of nationalizations as the former paratrooper seeks to entrench his self-styled “revolution.”
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