NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez was bribed by the country’s prominent Rosenthal family, which owned a “massive” group of businesses in the Central American country, U.S.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden met yesterday with Brazilian leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in a reboot of relations between the hemisphere’s two largest democracies after the end of Donald Trump ally Jair Bolsonaro’s stormy rule.
MANAGUA, (Reuters) – A Nicaraguan court sentenced Catholic Bishop Rolando Alvarez to a more than 26-year prison term yesterday, a day after the cleric and critic of President Daniel Ortega declined to be expelled to the United States as part of a prisoner release.
(Reuters) – The Organization of American States (OAS) yesterday passed a resolution to support Haiti on its path to long-delayed elections and help the Caribbean country manage widespread gang violence that is driving a humanitarian crisis.
(Nation News) The Transport Board will soon be rolling out its “cashless” system on board buses.
(Barbados Nation) Within a week, Barbadians should benefit from the savings of a second Social Compact between Government and the private sector.
MANAGUA/WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – More than 200 Nicaraguan political prisoners were freed and flown to the United States yesterday, nearly all of them prominent government critics jailed in President Daniel Ortega’s crackdown on dissent over recent years.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s interim government, led by Juan Guaido, spent some $198 million during the three years when they formed an opposition to President Nicolas Maduro’s administration, according to a government presentation published yesterday.
(Trinidad Express) Look out, Mr Bigs, the police are coming after you.
TAIPEI, (Reuters) – Paraguay’s president, Mario Abdo, will visit Taiwan next week as the island seeks to shore up ties with one of its oldest allies ahead of an election in April that could see the Latin American country ditch Taipei in favour of Beijing.
(Trinidad Express) Mitera Balkaran, the cancer patient who has only weeks to live, may be able to leave Belgium and return to the land of her birth in Trinidad to fulfil her last wish – a Hindu wedding ceremony.
BOA VISTA, Brazil, (Reuters) – Brazil’s environmental and indigenous agencies have launched an enforcement operation in the Amazon rainforest to expel thousands of illegal gold miners blamed for causing a humanitarian crisis among the Yanomami people, officials said yesterday.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil’s former far-right president dismantled all government cultural programs and blocked funding for institutions and artists, the country’s new Culture Minister Margareth Menezes said yesterday.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil’s central bank chief Roberto Campos Neto yesterday stepped up his defense of the institution’s independence amid mounting criticism from leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and his allies about overly high interest rates.
SAN JOSE, (Reuters) – The United States donated nearly $14 million worth of security equipment to Costa Rica in a bid to stamp out crime in the Central American country, which is facing an “extremely high” murder rate, Costa Rican President Rodrigo Chaves said yesterday.
RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – The area used for informal mining in Brazil has for years surpassed that used for industrial mining, according to data shared yesterday by the Brazilian Mining Association (IBRAM).
BRASILIA/RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – Brazil’s federal police today arrested the military police officer who led security operations in Brasilia on Jan.
QUITO, (Reuters) – Ecuador’s President Guillermo Lasso yesterday accepted defeat in a referendum on allowing extradition for organized crime, among other reforms, but added he would continue to fight drug trafficking and keep working to improve social conditions.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Private companies have committed to invest $4.2 billion in northern Central America as part of an effort by U.S.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Illegal gold miners blamed for causing a humanitarian crisis on Brazil’s largest indigenous reservation are asking authorities to help them leave, one of their leaders and a Brazilian senator said on Monday.
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