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Humanitarian Crises Could Worsen in Haiti, Venezuela, says Aid Group

By Kylie Madry Karina Joseph, 19, comforts her 2-year-old child Holanda Sineus as she receives treatment for cholera in a tent at a Doctors Without Borders hospital in Cite Soleil, a densely populated commune of Port-au-Prince, Haiti October 15, 2022. REUTERS/Ricardo Arduengo/File Photo   MEXICO CITY, Jan 24 (Reuters) – The humanitarian crises in Haiti […]

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U.S. Says It Will Propose New Haiti Targets for U.N. Sanctions

By Michelle Nichols U.S. Ambassador Robert Wood attends a session at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, March 20, 2019. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse/File Photo UNITED NATIONS, Jan 24 (Reuters) – The United States said on Tuesday it will propose further targets in Haiti for U.N. sanctions, a move broadly backed by China as the Caribbean country […]

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T&T Get US License to Develop Offshore Venezuelan Gas Field

By Matt Spetalnick, Marianna Parraga and Curtis Williams WASHINGTON/PORT OF SPAIN, Jan 24 (Reuters) – The Biden administration has granted a license to Trinidad and Tobago to develop a major gas field located in Venezuelan territorial waters, U.S. and Trinidad officials said on Tuesday, marking a further easing of some sanctions on Venezuela. The license, […]

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Award-Winning U.S. Saxophonist Heads to Cuba for Rare Collaborative Performance

By Anett Rios and Alexander Frometa HAVANA, Jan 24 (Reuters) – Grammy-winning U.S. jazz saxophonist-composer Ted Nash traveled to Cuba this week to perform with fellow musicians from the Caribbean island nation, part of a week-long celebration of jazz in the Cuban capital of Havana. Nash – one of the United States´ best-known contemporary jazz […]

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Brazil Official Says Yanomami Region Looks Like ‘Concentration Camp’

By Anthony Boadle Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva looks on as he visits the Yanomami Indigenous Health House (CASA Yanomami) in Boa Vista, Roraima state, Brazil January 21, 2023. Ricardo Stuckert/Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS – THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. BRASILIA, Jan 24 (Reuters) – Brazil’s military should evict illegal […]

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Latin America, Caribbean Call for More International Funding at CELAC Summit

  Leaders of the Latin American and Caribbean States pose for a family photo during the 7th Heads of State and Government Summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) in Buenos Aires, Argentina, January 24, 2023. REUTERS/Agustin Marcarian  BUENOS AIRES, Jan 24 (Reuters) – Countries from Latin America and the Caribbean […]

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In Reversal, US Poised to Approve Abrams Tanks for Ukraine

By LOLITA C. BALDOR and MATTHEW LEEtoday WASHINGTON (AP) — In what would be a reversal, the Biden administration is poised to approve sending M1 Abrams tanks to Ukraine, U.S. officials said Tuesday, as international reluctance to send tanks to the battlefront against the Russians begins to erode. A decision to send a bit more […]

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Americans Asked to Join Welcome Corps for Caribbean Refugees

WASHINGTON (CMC) –The United States has launched a new private sponsorship programme that will enable Americans to sponsor refugees arriving through the US Refugee Admissions Programme (USRAP), amid heightened concern over plans by the Joe Biden administration to limit migrants from the Caribbean and other countries. US Secretary of State Antony J Blinken said that […]

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Peru’s Crisis is a Cautionary Tale for Democracies

Analysis by Stefano Pozzebon, CNN CNN  —  Peru is seeing some of its worst political violence in recent decades, but the grievances of protesters are all but new; they reflect a system that has failed to deliver for over twenty years. Sparked by the ousting of former President Pedro Castillo last month, some of Peru’s […]

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The Rice Crop in Cuba Fails, Providing Less than 30% of Domestic Consumption

  14ymedio, Madrid, 16 January 2023 — Cuban authorities have not revealed the bad results of the 2022 rice production, but a note published on Sunday in Granma, the official daily, leads us to believe that is worse than expected. In February of that year, the harvest was 120,000 tons and they set a target […]

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