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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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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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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  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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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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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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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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  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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By Bill Pan   The U.S. Coast Guard has detained a 50-foot boat crammed with nearly 400 Haitian migrants near the Bahamas. The migrant ship carrying 396 “unlawful entrants from the Republic of Haiti” was intercepted on Saturday near Cay Sal Bank, an island between Florida and Cuba, according to Bahamian immigration authorities. In a […]

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Trinidad and Tobago’s Energy Minister Stuart Young poses for a photograph during the Suriname Energy, Oil and Gas Summit, in Paramaribo, Suriname June 27, 2022. Picture taken June 27, 2022. REUTERS/Ranu Abhelakh//File Photo PORT OF SPAIN, Jan 23 (Reuters) – Trinidad & Tobago Energy Minister Stuart Young on Monday proposed a Caribbean energy alliance with […]

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