Catholic clergy report surveillance, beatings amid Nicaragua’s crackdown
By David Alire Garcia MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – The police showed up two days after a Catholic clergyman at a…
Latin America
USTR flags energy concerns going into Mexico talks; urges steel monitoring
By Daina Beth Solomon and Cassandra Garrison MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -The U.S. sees some progress on an energy dispute with…
Top FARC dissident leader Ivan Marquez dead -sources
By Luis Jaime Acosta BOGOTA (Reuters) -Ivan Marquez, the well-known leader of a faction of former FARC rebels who returned…
Delayed Guatemalan election results to be made official next week
GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) – Official results from Guatemala’s first-round presidential election late last month will be released next week, the…
Brazil removes tourism minister as Lula seeks support for reforms
BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Thursday replaced his tourism minister, the first cabinet reshuffle…
Florida bans driver’s licenses of immigrants living in US illegally
By Rachel Nostrant (Reuters) – Florida will no longer accept driver’s licenses issued by some other U.S. states to immigrants…
Venezuela to regulate private shipments of food and medicine, sources say
By Mayela Armas and Vivian Sequera CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela is planning to introduce new regulations on courier shipments of…
ByteDance launches new music streaming service in Brazil, Indonesia
SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Chinese company ByteDance, which owns short-video company TikTok, on Thursday said it will launch a new…
Argentina to hold interest rate at 97% as raging inflation eases – bank sources
By Jorge Otaola BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Argentina’s central bank is set to hold its benchmark interest rate steady at…
Hopes of political change, surging inflation lure hedge funds to Argentinian stocks
By Amruta Khandekar and Siddarth S (Reuters) – Foreign hedge funds have been lapping up Argentinian equities at cheap valuations…