SAN SALVADOR, (Reuters) – Authorities in El Salvador have opened one of Latin America’s largest prisons, more than doubling the country’s incarceration capacity, as a government crackdown on criminal gangs is causing the prison population to soar.
SAN JOSE, (Reuters) – A Costa Rican court sentenced a man to 22 years behind bars on Wednesday for the murder of an indigenous leader in a 2020 land dispute, a case that has stoked decades-old tensions between native communities and farmers over disputed territory.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – A decommissioned 1960’s aircraft carrier has been floating offshore for three months since Turkey refused it entry to be scrapped there will be sunk in the Atlantic Ocean in waters under Brazil’s jurisdiction, the Brazilian Navy said on Wednesday.
LIMA, (Reuters) – Peru’s Congress yesterday rejected a proposal to move elections forward to December 2023, despite nearly two months of protests that have left dozens dead following the ousting of former President Pedro Castillo.
SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Guatemala, Nicaragua and Cuba reached all-time lows on Transparency International’s corruption index released on Tuesday due to increased organized crime by public institutions, co-optation by political and economic elites and increased human rights abuses.
(Trinidad Guardian) Police investigating the killing of 38-year-old Siobhan Rogers say they have no clear motive for her murder.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department said sday it had pressed criminal charges against four more men over their alleged connection with the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moise.
BOGOTA, (Reuters) – Colombia’s ceasefire with four armed groups has led to significant reductions in violence during its first month, Interior Minister Alfonso Prada said yesterday, with fewer murders and attacks on armed forces.
(Reuters) – Haitians in the United States are facing enormous pressure to help family and friends under a U.S.
PESHAWAR, Pakistan, (Reuters) – A suicide bomber blew himself up inside a crowded mosque in a highly fortified security compound in Pakistan yesterday, killing 59 people, including 27 police officials, the latest in a string of attacks targeting police.
HELSINKI, (Reuters) – Finland is sticking to its plan to join NATO at the same time as Nordic neighbour Sweden, and hopes to do so no later than July, Finnish foreign minister Pekka Haavisto said yesterday.
(Trinidad Guardian) A little over six years after being freed of kidnapping and murdering businesswoman Vindra Naipaul-Coolman, nine Diego Martin men are each set to receive TT$2.1 million in compensation, while the state will have to pay out some TT$20 million overall for the failed case.
(Trinidad Express) Ex-Caroni worker Pundit Donny Samlal clashed with supporters of Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar yesterday as he was being interviewed by the media at the United National Congress’ National Congress in Couva.
(Trinidad Guardian) The weekend’s second triple murder was recorded in Cunupia just hours after three other people were killed in Carapo, Arima, on Saturday evening.
BUENOS AIRES, (Reuters) – German Chancellor Olaf Scholz yesterday urged a swift conclusion to talks on a free trade deal between the European Union and the Mercosur South American trade bloc, on the first stop in Buenos Aires of his inaugural tour of the region.
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – South America is not likely to have a common currency bloc to rival the euro any time soon, analysts said on Monday, despite excited chatter sparked by officials in Brazil and Argentina raising the prospect of a shared tender.
(Reuters) – At least 24 people died in northern Peru after a bus carrying 60 passengers plunged off a cliff in early yesterday, police told local media.
(Reuters) – Human Rights Watch (HRW) accused Salvadoran authorities on Friday of “mass due process violations” in the detention of tens of thousands of people, including hundreds of children, in over-crowded prisons, citing leaked government data.
(Trinidad Express) A dispute over 16 acres of north coast land is believed to have led to yesterday morning’s double homicide in Blanchisseuse.
MADRID, (Reuters) – The new president of Venezuela’s opposition legislature is confident the United States will back the body by continuing to protect foreign assets like oil refiner Citgo Petroleum from creditors, she said on Friday.
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