QUITO, (Reuters) – Environmentalists and Indigenous groups in Ecuador yesterday said that President Daniel Noboa risks being removed from office if he does not comply with a referendum that called for the closure of an oil block in the country’s Amazon.
ACAPULCO, Mexico, (Reuters) – A volunteer police force in rural Mexico that says it has been overwhelmed by local kidnappings has recruited schoolchildren as young as 12 to join its ranks, the latest sign of how some parts of the country are struggling to cope with organized crime.
(Trinidad Express) A three-year-old Venezuelan girl was grazed by a bullet on Tuesday night when gunmen ambushed and killed her father in Arima.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil’s federal police launched an operation today to investigate the alleged illegal monitoring of citizens by the Brazilian Intelligence Agency (ABIN) during the administration of former President Jair Bolsonaro.
BRASILIA/MONTEVIDEO, (Reuters) – South America is seeing a surge in cases of the mosquito-borne disease dengue during the southern hemisphere summer, prompting Brazil to roll out a novel vaccine campaign, while in Argentina many stores have run out of bug spray.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Public prosecutors chasing illegal gold mining in Brazil’s Amazon region yesterday opened an investigation into on-line sales of mercury through Mercado Libre MELI.O,
BOGOTA, (Reuters) – Colombia’s inspector general yesterday suspended Foreign Minister Alvaro Leyva from his role for three months over possible irregularities in the tender process for producing passports in the Andean country.
SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Climate change is the main culprit for a record drought in the Amazon rainforest that has drained rivers, killed endangered dolphins and upended life for millions of people in the region, according to a study released yesterday.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil’s agricultural research agency Embrapa yesterday opened an online learning programme called “Sowing forests on Indigenous lands” to help Amazon communities reforest degraded land in the rainforest and beyond.
(Trinidad Express) Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley says the United States Appeals Court landmark ruling in upholding Mexico’s move to sue American gun manufacturers for facilitating gun trafficking across the border into Mexico and contributing to gun violence is a “good thing” for Trinidad and Tobago.
(Barbados Nation) Member of Parliament for St Michael North West, Neil Rowe, has been removed as Deputy Speaker.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuelan opposition candidate Maria Corina Machado yesterday announced an alliance with political parties and civil society organizations that will help organize her campaign to challenge President Nicolas Maduro, and she called for an exact date for the elections.
HAVANA, (Reuters) – Cubans are preparing for a new wave of inflation after the government last week rolled out details of an austerity plan that economists say will touch nearly every facet of the communist-run island’s already flailing economy.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – The number of people reported killed as Haiti faces a worsening conflict between heavily armed gangs increased by more than 110% last year to reach 4,789, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said in a report published yesterday.
PORT OF SPAIN, (Reuters) – Suriname should boost incentives for energy companies looking to develop oil and gas discoveries, said Zamri Baseri, head of Malaysia’s Petronas PETRA.UL
SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – A Brazilian company has announced the arrival of a first leather cargo in Europe coming from cattle that was reared without causing deforestation.
MEXICO CITY, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – As Europe, the United States and China set the pace in the global race to regulate artificial intelligence (AI) tools, Latin America will be next to take action, said the senator leading Mexico’s push to govern the technology’s use.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva yesterday vowed a federal response after a conflict between Indigenous people and farmers over land in southern Bahia led to the shooting death of a tribal leader.
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez on Tuesday will urge a U.S.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Investors sold Brazil’s real currency BRL=BRBY yesterday after leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva unveiled an industrial development plan for the next 10 years aimed at boosting sluggish growth with state credits and subsidies.
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