By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN PUERTO PEÑASCO, Mexico (AP) — Mexico was pushed to accelerate its turn toward renewable energy after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine last year drove a sharp increase in global energy costs, Mexico Foreign Affairs Secretary Marcelo Ebrard said late Thursday. Ebrard made the comments after taking dozens of foreign diplomats to see a […]
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14ymedio, Madrid— The US charge d’affaires in Havana, Benjamin Ziff, recounted in an interview with the Associated Press that talking about human rights with the Cuban authorities is very complicated and that there have been arrests of opponents with whom his embassy wanted to meet, although he declined to give names. “It is our number […]
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By Vivian Sequera CARACAS, Feb 2 (Reuters) – Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro on Thursday lashed out at U.S. licenses barring companies doing business with sanctioned Venezuelan state firms from paying cash to his administration. Washington last year authorized U.S. and European firms to resume taking Venezuelan crude oil on the condition no funds be paid […]
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By Sir Ronald Sanders (The writer is Antigua and Barbuda’s Ambassador to the United States of America and the Organization of American States. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London and Massey College in the University of Toronto) All the countries of ‘the Americas.’ i.e., those in […]
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A firefighter works, as a wildfire burns parts of rural areas in Quillon, Chile, February 2, 2023 REUTERS/Juan Gonzalez SANTIAGO, Feb 2 (Reuters) – Wildfires have consumed more than 750 hectares (1,853 acres) of forest in Chile, destroying houses and threatening farms and forests as the South American nation faces a summer heatwave across southern […]
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BRASILIA, Feb 3 (Reuters) – Brazil’s federal police on Friday carried out fresh raids as part of a probe into the Jan. 8 insurrection, when supporters of former far-right President Jair Bolsonaro stormed government buildings in Brasilia. Police said in a statement they were serving three preventive arrest warrants and 14 search and seizure warrants […]
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By Catarina Demony Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Gilmar Mendes walks at the Supreme Court building following Brazil’s anti-democratic riots, in Brasilia, Brazil, January 10, 2023. REUTERS/Ricardo Moraes LISBON, Feb 3 (Reuters) – Brazil must make sure it addresses the problems that led to the riots in Brasilia last month, including the “politicisation” of the police […]
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By Thomas Mackintosh BBC News A new 2,000-peso banknote will be issued in Argentina in response to soaring inflation, the country’s central bank (BCRA) has confirmed. The new note – which will be worth $11 (£9) officially – comes after consumer prices jumped by nearly 95% in the 12 months to the end of December. […]
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A Brazilian senator has said the country’s former leader, Jair Bolsonaro, was at a meeting about a plot to keep him in power. Marcos do Val has alleged he was asked to get the head of the electoral authority to compromise himself to discredit the presidential election. Mr Bolsonaro narrowly lost October’s vote, prompting unsubstantiated […]
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A young male in St Kitts lost his life last evening in Central Basseterre following a shooting incident at a business place. Police have disclosed that the incident occurred around 10 pm The victim has been identified as 30-year-old Sylvester Crossley of Half Way Tree. Crossley is the third homicide in the Federation for 2023. […]
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