MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – In early May, Claudia Sheinbaum, the favorite to win Mexico’s upcoming presidential election next month, suddenly pulled out of a planned visit to Apatzingan, a town in the violent state of Michoacan.
BUENOS AIRES, (Reuters) – In the first cabinet shakeup of his five-month-old administration, Argentine President Javier Milei accepted the resignation of cabinet chief Nicolas Posse on Monday night amid strains over major economic reforms pitched by the government.
(Trinidad Express) A couple likely drowned when their car overturned and crashed into the sea in Chaguaramas on Sunday night.
(Trinidad Guardian) T&T marine biologist, Dr Diva Amon has praised the Ansa McAl Foundation for providing unrestrained funding to laureates selected for the Anthony N Sabga Awards.
(Trinidad Express) A Trinidad and Tobago Police Service (TTPS) constable who has been under suspicion for human trafficking in this country for years has been detained and charged with the crime in Venezuela.
(Reuters) – Argentine President Javier Milei said on Saturday he would apply a “significant” tax reduction if Congress approves a bill to reduce state intervention in the economy.
(Reuters) – A volunteer firefighter and a Chilean forestry official have been formally accused by prosecutors with involvement in setting wildfires that engulfed central Chile this past February, killing over 130 people.
(Trinidad Guardian) In collaboration with Bellingcat: Logan Williams, Thomas Bordeaux, Lotte van de Waal and members of the Bellingcat Discord community.
MONTEVIDEO, (Reuters) – José Mujica, a one-time guerrilla, prisoner and later president of Uruguay who has cemented himself as an icon of the Latin American left, maintains that he is a farmer and nature lover above all else.
(Trinidad Express) The killing of two cousins in Maloney on Thursday has pushed this country’s 2024 murder toll to 226.
(Reuters) – Three Christian missionaries from Missions in Haiti were shot and killed in an ambush by a gang in Haiti, the Oklahoma-based group said yesterday.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela aims to produce 1.23 million barrels per day (bpd) of oil in December, adding about 290,000 bpd compared to the start of the year, following the addition of drilling rigs, oil minister Pedro Tellechea said yesterday.
ACAPULCO, Mexico, (Reuters) – Guarded by more than a dozen police officers equipped with semi-automatic rifles and donning a helmet and bulletproof vest, Ramiro Solorio looks more like he is leading an armed raid than running for local political office.
(Trinidad Guardian) The four men who were killed by police during an alleged shootout in the mountains at Upper St Michael’s Road, St Augustine, yesterday morning, were yet to be identified up to last night.
HAVANA, (Reuters) – Cuban president Miguel Diaz-Canel yesterday replaced his minister of foreign commerce, Ricardo Cabrisas, a key cabinet member who has long spearheaded thorny debt negotiations with trade partners China, Russia and the Paris Club of creditor nations.
MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – The extreme heat smothering much of Mexico has killed dozens of people across multiple states over recent weeks, the country’s health ministry said in a report published yesterday, with hotter temperatures forecast for coming days.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – The U.S. has received up to 50 requests for individual licenses from companies aiming to do business in Venezuela’s oil industry, following the expiration of a general authorization granted last year to the sector, the chief of the U.S.
(Trinidad Express) The brother-in-law of Deborah Gopaul has been charged with her murder.
(Trinidad Guardian) Kidnapped victim Anisha Hosein-Singh has been released by her kidnappers.
(Trinidad Guardian) MovieTowne, the cinema complex owned by businessman Derek Chin, owes the Board of Inland Revenue (BIR) TT$93 million in unpaid taxes and penalties.
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