MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – The Biden administration announced new sanctions and indictments against Mexican nationals yesterday as it seeks to deepen cooperation with the Mexican government to curb flows of the opioid fentanyl to the United States.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley used a speech in London yesterday to call for a global conversation on reparations for countries that saw their people enslaved, sometimes for centuries, under colonial rule.
BOGOTA, (Reuters) – Colombia and Brazil destroyed 19 illegal gold mining dredges in the Amazon rainforest which were producing about $1.5 million of the precious metal a month and polluting rivers with mercury, Colombia’s armed forces said yesterday.
LIMA, (Reuters) – Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori, who was serving a 25-year prison term for human rights abuses during his decade-long rule in the 1990s, was released last evening after a court restored a contentious 2017 pardon.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, Olivia Grange, says legislation will be tabled next week in Parliament to impose tough penalties on the perpetrators of domestic violence who use a firearm to carry out their reprehensible acts.
(Trinidad Express) Having spent almost three decades in prison after being found guilty in 1999 of chopping his wife to death five years prior, a High Court judge has ordered the immediate release of a Mayaro man.
(Trinidad Guardian) Trinidad and Tobago is standing firmly for the region to remain a zone of peace, including respecting international law and the sovereign borders of all nations—including sister Caricom member Guyana.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The United States yesterday charged a former ambassador to Bolivia with spying for Cuba for over 40 years, in what the Justice Department described as one of the highest-reaching and longest-lasting infiltrations of the U.S.
BRUSSELS, (Reuters) – Just a week after hailing approval of a trade agreement with New Zealand as a sign the European Union’s free trade ambitions were back on track, a hitch in a planned EU-Mercosur deal has brought them to a grinding halt.
(Reuters) – Nicaragua yesterday recalled its ambassador to Argentina ahead of the inauguration of radical right-wing libertarian Javier Milei as the South American country’s next president following his criticism of the Nicaraguan government.
NEW DELHI/HOUSTON/SINGAPORE, (Reuters) – Indian refiners have resumed Venezuelan oil purchases through intermediaries, with Reliance RELI.NS
(Trinidad Guardian) The ongoing delay of containerised ships crossing the Panama Canal is beginning to affect the local agriculture sector, as the shelves of some chemical and fertiliser importers and small shops have been running bare.
Voting has been extended by two hours in Venezuela’s controversial referendum on Essequibo despite an apparent low turnout.
(Reuters) – Brazil will never join the OPEC+ group of oil-producing nations as a full member and instead only seeks to participate as an observer, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said today.
LIMA, (Reuters) – Nine people were killed and 15 injured after armed men raided Peru’s Poderosa mine with explosives and took hostages, the Interior Ministry said late yesterday.
(Reuters) – Nicaraguan police late on Friday charged the owner of the local Miss Universe franchise with conspiracy, money laundering and spreading fake news, just weeks after the Central American nation’s first victory in the pageant.
SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Brazil’s national development bank (BNDES) today launched an effort to restore degraded or destroyed woodland amounting to 60,000 square km (23,160 square miles) – an area nearly the size of Latvia – in the Amazon rainforest by 2030.
(Reuters) – The UAE said today it has concluded the terms of a trade deal with Colombia, which it called the first such bilateral agreement between the Gulf and South America.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The White House said yesterday it was prepared to “pause” sanctions relief for OPEC member Venezuela in coming days unless there is further progress on the release of Venezuelan political prisoners and “wrongfully detained” Americans.
LIMA, (Reuters) – Ex-President Alberto Fujimori and his family were dealt consecutive blows yesterday, after courts blocked the imprisoned former leader’s pardon while mandating that his daughter and political heir, Keiko Fujimori, face trial for alleged money laundering.
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