BELEM, Brazil, (Reuters) – Brazil and France yesterday launched an investment programme to protect the Brazilian and French Guianese Amazon rainforest involving 1 billion euros (US$1.1 billion) in private and public funds over the next four years.
RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – Brazilian police are investigating why former president Jair Bolsonaro spent two nights at the Hungarian embassy in Brasilia last month right after his passport was seized in an investigation into an alleged military coup plot, a source with knowledge of the matter said yesterday.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – A major Venezuelan opposition group has registered a candidate for July’s presidential election to ensure a spot on the ballot, even though the primary winner and her alternate were unable to sign up, electoral authorities and sources said today.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s opposition coalition was left without a candidate in the race for July’s presidential elections after 80-year-old Corina Yoris was unable to register before the expiry of Monday’s deadline.
(Reuters) – French President Emmanuel Macron said yesterday the government is seeking to designate new regulated gold mining zones in its South American territory of French Guiana to combat illegal mining and its environmental consequences.
BRASILIA/PARIS, (Reuters) – French President Emmanuel Macron, who criticized Brazil’s previous government for failing to protect the rainforest, will arrive today in the Amazon at the start of a three-day visit to the South American country.
(Reuters) – Brazil’s far-right former President Jair Bolsonaro stayed for two nights at the Hungarian embassy in Brasilia last month, just days after federal police confiscated his passport and arrested two former aides on suspicion of plotting a coup, Bolsonaro’s lawyer said yesterday.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazilian police are investigating if a retired general who was far-right former President Jair Bolsonaro’s running mate planned to bring Army special forces to the country’s capital as part of a plan for a military coup after losing the 2022 election.
BUENOS AIRES, (Reuters) – Thousands of Argentines took to the streets around the country yesterday to commemorate the anniversary of the 1976 military coup that lasted eight years and led to widespread repression, torture and disappearances.
(Trinidad Guardian) Attorney Kerywn Garcia, SC, the attorney appointed by Massy to investigate claims made by its former executive vice president of business integrity and group general counsel, Angélique Parisot-Potter, about its executive leadership programme, will have the report completed this week.
QUITO, (Reuters) – Ecuador’s youngest mayor, Brigitte Garcia, and an advisor were found shot dead in a car today, said police in the South American country, which is in the grips of a wave of violence that authorities blame on drug trafficking National police said they were investigating the deaths of Garcia, the 27-year-old mayor of San Vicente, and Jairo Loor, after the discovery of their bodies in the province of Manabi.
RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – Brazilian police arrested three people today, including a federal lawmaker, in connection with the 2018 murder of Rio de Janeiro city council member Marielle Franco and her driver, two sources at the federal police told Reuters.
(Trinidad Express) Businessman Richard Harford, the founder of Mario’s Pizzeria, has passed away at the age of 79.
BOGOTA, (Reuters) – Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro ordered the country’s military to capture the top leader of the Estado Mayor Central, aggravating a breakdown in relations between the illegal armed group and the government as they hold peace talks.
(Trinidad Express) In what is one of the largest awards of damages made by the courts in a case for false imprisonment, the High Court has directed that the State pay a 16-year-old Venezuelan boy $2.4 million, exclusive of interest, after he was unlawfully detained for 456 days at the Heliport, Chaguaramas.
(Trinidad Express) In what is one of the largest awards of damages made by the courts in a case for false imprisonment, the High Court has directed that the State pay a 16-year-old Venezuelan boy $2.4 million, exclusive of interest, after he was unlawfully detained for 456 days at the Heliport, Chaguaramas.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela opposition leader Maria Corina Machado yesterday named Corina Yoris as her successor to take on President Nicolas Maduro in the country’s presidential election in July, following the arrest of two of Machado’s close aides.
LIMA, (Reuters) – The Inter-American Court of Human Rights on Friday ordered Peru to pay damages to residents of an Andean town for violations of their right to a healthy environment from years of air, water and soil pollution from a nearby mine.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Almost half of Haiti’s people are struggling to feed themselves as gang violence spreads across the country, with several areas close to famine, international organisations said yesterday.
(Trinidad Express) A local rapper who went by the sobriquet “V-Max,” was shot and killed in Mt Lambert on Thursday night.
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