BUENOS AIRES, (Reuters) – Argentine President Alberto Fernandez yesterday said he would seek to impeach the head of the Supreme Court, after the two powers recently clashed over a court decision to award more state funds to the city of Buenos Aires.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Norway, the major donor to the Amazon Fund, said the initiative for backing forest protection had been re-activated now that Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was back in office and vowing to halt deforestation.
MEXICO CITY/CIUDAD JUAREZ, (Reuters) – Mexican authorities said yesterday they had fired the director of a prison near the U.S.
(Trinidad Guardian) The threat and nuisance of the Giant African Snail (GAS) may now be a means to supplement your income, as the Ministry of Agriculture plans to introduce a bounty system offering a reward for the capture and submission of the snails to a designated site.
MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Mexico’s Supreme Court yesterday elected its first female president, who has pushed back against the government’s nationalist energy agenda, amid a succession process clouded by allegations of plagiarism against another justice competing for the job.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazilian markets delivered a withering verdict on leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s first full day in office yesterday, after he pledged to prioritize social issues and ordered a budget-busting extension to a fuel tax exemption.
URENA, Venezuela, (Reuters) – Private vehicles started crossing between Colombia and Venezuela for the first time in years yesterday, marking the total opening of the shared border, in addition to cargo and people that have been transiting.
MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Mexican authorities said on Sunday at least 14 people died in an armed attack at a prison in the northern border city Juarez and two more died during a later armed aggression elsewhere in the city.
(Trinidad Express) Two men died in a shooting in Maloney on Sunday night.
BOGOTA, (Reuters) – Colombian President Gustavo Petro, a leftist and former guerrilla, announced late yesterday a January ceasefire with five illegal armed groups to support peace talks.
SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Brazil’s acting president, Hamilton Mourao, yesterday criticized outgoing far-right leader Jair Bolsonaro for allowing anti-democratic sentiment to thrive in the wake of this year’s election, in a veiled dig in a New Year speech.
(Trinidad Express) The Integrity Commission has revealed that in 2022 it served court orders on hundreds of public officials for failing to declare their assets, forcing a majority to speedily comply.
(Trinidad Guardian) Supermarkets have now resorted to placing cheese and luxury meat products under lock and key to try and stop organised shoplifting from taking place, the Supermarket Association of T&T has stated.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Outgoing Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro landed in Florida yesterday, after delivering a teary message to his supporters less than two days before his fierce leftist rival Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is set to take office.
SANTA CRUZ/LA PAZ, (Reuters) – Protesters in Bolivia’s Santa Cruz, a relatively wealthy farming region, attacked buildings, burned cars and blocked highways as part of a 24-hour strike yesterday following the arrest of the regional governor, a right-wing opposition leader.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s opposition national assembly voted yesterday to remove interim President Juan Guaido, dissolve his government and appoint a commission to govern the country’s foreign assets, as lawmakers seek a united front ahead of elections slated for 2024.
LA PAZ/SANTA CRUZ, Bolivia, (Reuters) – Bolivian prosecutors are requesting six months of pre-trial detention for right-wing opposition Governor Luis Fernando Camacho in connection to 2019 political turmoil, state prosecutor Omar Mejillones said yesterday.
GUAYAQUIL, (Reuters) – Insecurity in Ecuador is hurting the Andean country’s exports of products like bananas and shrimp, an exporters association said, amid assaults on shipping containers and contamination of shipments with drugs.
BOGOTA, (Reuters) – The armed forces of Colombia and Ecuador on Wednesday signed an agreement to implement a plan to contain drug trafficking and organized crime on their shared border, authorities in both countries said.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Opposition lawmakers in Venezuela seeking the removal of Juan Guaido as the country’s interim president said yesterday that foreign assets will not pass to the government of President Nicolas Maduro if Guaido is removed from his post.
The ePaper edition, on the Web & in stores for Android, iPhone & iPad.
Included free with your web subscription. Learn more.
