BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil’s Supreme Court agreed yesterday to open an investigation into former President Jair Bolsonaro for allegedly encouraging anti-democratic protests that ended in the storming of government buildings by his supporters in Brasilia.
LIMA, (Reuters) – Peru’s attorney general has launched 11 inquiries to identify those responsible for more than three dozen mostly civilian deaths during some of the country’s most violent social protests in years, her office said yesterday, as some of the president’s top Cabinet members announced their resignation.
(Trinidad Express) A taxi-driver standing near the corner of St John’s Road and the Eastern Main Road, St Augustine near Scotia Bank was shot and killed in full view of commuters and bank customers yesterday.
(Reuters) – Canada yesterday sanctioned a former Haitian lawmaker and an associate of a Haitian ex-president for reputedly protecting armed gangs and enabling illegal activities including drug trafficking, Ottawa’s foreign minister said.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s economy expanded around 15% last year, President Nicolas Maduro said on Thursday during his annual state of the nation address, crediting the expansion to diversification of the largely oil-focused economy.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazilian federal prosecutors today asked the Supreme Court to investigate former President Jair Bolsonaro for allegedly encouraging anti-democratic protests that ended in the storming of government buildings by his supporters in Brasilia.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazilian police found a draft decree in the home of former President Jair Bolsonaro’s justice minister that appears to be a proposal to interfere in the result of the October election he lost, two people familiar with the investigation said yesterday.
(Trinidad Guardian) The “Mother of all Carnivals” is on and the Government does not intend to institute any additional restrictions despite rising COVID-19 cases.
(Trinidad Express) Men dressed as police officers and soldiers gunned down an American citizen in Arima on Tuesday.
LIMA, (Reuters) – Thousands took to the streets of Peru’s capital Lima yesterday in a peaceful protest against the new government and president, after weeks of bloody clashes triggered by the ousting of former President Pedro Castillo left at least 42 dead.
QUITO, (Reuters) – Ecuador’s major indigenous organization said yesterday it was preparing to hold protests in mining areas in an attempt to stop extractive activities near its communities.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazilian federal prosecutors yesterday requested the investigation of three congressional allies of former President Jair Bolsonaro for allegedly inciting the worst attack on the country’s democratic institutions in decades.
OTTAWA, (Reuters) – Canada delivered armoured vehicles to Haiti yesterday to help combat criminal gangs as the Caribbean nation faces a humanitarian crisis, the Canadian foreign ministry said.
MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – One of Mexico’s top judges copied “a substantial part of content” for her 1987 thesis from another student’s work presented a year earlier, her university said yesterday, following a plagiarism scandal made public last month.
HAVANA, (Reuters) – Cubans frantic to escape economic crisis at home weighed up options this week on how to move to the United States after the Biden administration rolled out a new set of rules at the U.S.-Mexico
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – A Brazilian Supreme Court judge ordered the arrest yesterday of the capital’s most recent public security chief after supporters of right-wing former President Jair Bolsonaro led a rampage through government buildings.
MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – The United States, Mexico and Canada yesterday vowed to tighten economic ties, producing more goods regionally and boosting semiconductor output, even as integration is hampered by an ongoing dispute over Mexico’s nationalist energy policies.
LIMA/JULIACA, (Reuters) – At least 17 people were killed in clashes with police in southern Peru, the country’s human rights office said yesterday, the deadliest day so far of protests demanding early elections and the release of jailed former president Pedro Castillo.
PORT OF SPAIN, (Reuters) – Trinidad and Tobago received a total of 16 bids for exploring and developing oil and natural gas at eight onshore blocks in its most recent bidding round, the country’s Energy Ministry said yesterday.
RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – The United States has a Jair Bolsonaro problem.
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