WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega’s son Laureano, an influential figure in the country’s leftist government, has reached out quietly to the Biden administration in recent months seeking to re-engage with the United States, according to people familiar with the matter.
RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – Brazil’s Petrobras posted a first-quarter net income that beat forecasts yesterday, just minutes after Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro railed against the state-run oil company’s profitability, saying its executives had no sympathy for ordinary people.
(Reuters) – Gun battles between rival gangs in Port-au-Prince have killed dozens in the past two weeks and forced thousands to flee their homes, Haiti’s civil protection authority and a U.N.
RIO DE JANEIRO/WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) director last year told senior Brazilian officials that President Jair Bolsonaro should stop casting doubt on his country’s voting system ahead of the October election, sources told Reuters.
MIAMI, (Reuters) – A U.S. judge yesterday ruled that Andrew Fahie, premier of the British Virgin Islands, will not face pre-trial detention while awaiting proceedings on charges that he conspired to launder money and traffic drugs into the United States.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said Russia never should have invaded Ukraine, but he believes Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy is as much to blame for the war as Russian leader Vladimir Putin.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – The leader of Haiti’s feared 400 Mawozo gang, which last year abducted a group of missionaries from the United States and Canada, has been extradited to the United States on Tuesday, the Haitian police said.
MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Mexico is working with governments of Argentina, Bolivia and Chile to create a lithium association so the countries can share their expertise to exploit the battery mineral, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said yesterday.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil’s Supreme Electoral Court (TSE) has withdrawn an invitation for the European Union to send observers for the October election after President Jair Bolsonaro’s government objected, the EU and the election body confirmed yesterday.
SANTO DOMINGO, (Reuters) – The Dominican Republic reinforced surveillance on the border with Haiti yesterday and announced an urgent search for one of its diplomats who disappeared there a few days ago.
LA PAZ, (Reuters) – Inmates in Bolivia’s overcrowded prisons are now able to reduce their jail time by reading books in a new program influenced by one in Brazil that aims to spread literacy and give hope despite a notoriously slow judicial process.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke yesterday with Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido and reaffirmed the United States’ commitment to talks between Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s government and the opposition Unitary Platform, the U.S.
(Reuters) – Activists in the British Virgin Islands yesterday protested against a proposal to put the overseas British territory under control of the United Kingdom, days after the BVI premier was jailed in Miami on charges of conspiring to traffic drugs.
BOGOTA, (Reuters) – Gustavo Petro, the leftist front-runner in Colombia’s presidential election, yesterday canceled events in the country’s coffee region because of what his office said was a plot by a crime gang to attempt to take his life.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Haitians in the capital Port-au-Prince fled their homes yesterday as gun battles broke out between rival gangs, according to a Reuters witness, following clashes between armed groups that killed at least 20 last week.
HAVANA, (Reuters) – Cubans poured onto the streets in celebration of International Worker’s Day yesterday, the first such parade since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, touting fluttering flags, posters of former leader Fidel Castro and chanting “Cuba Lives and Works.”
(Trinidad Guardian) Why did the intruders who broke into the home of Daniel Johnson shoot him after he complied with their demands for money?
HAVANA, (Reuters) – Ricardo Alarcon, one of the most powerful men in Cuba under former President Fidel Castro and a key player in relations with the United States, died in Havana on Saturday evening, his family said.
(Trinidad Express) One hundred and six cases of police shootings resulting in civilian deaths are engaging the attention of the Police Complaints Authority (PCA).
(Trinidad Guardian) Former commissioner of police Gary Griffith is officially back in politics.
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