By Harold Isaac PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) -United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, visiting Haiti’s capital on Saturday, said international aid has not met the impoverished country’s growing humanitarian needs, and urged more support for the Haitian police to fight gangs. The visit was meant to spotlight the crises facing the Caribbean country as it struggles to combat…
CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela’s government on Saturday said it rejected the U.S. stance around the South American country’s upcoming elections, calling it “interference,” a day after the U.S. criticized Venezuela’s decision to disqualify an opposition candidate. Maria Corina Machado, one of the favorites to win the Venezuelan opposition’s nomination for president in an October primary,…
By Philip Pullella (Reuters) – Pope Francis has named an Argentine theologian and prolific author who decades ago wrote a book on the healing properties of kissing to be the Catholic Church’s new doctrinal chief, one of the Vatican’s top posts. A Vatican statement on Saturday said Francis had chosen fellow Argentine Archbishop Victor Manuel…
By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) – A federal judge on Friday said Pilgrim’s Pride, Sanderson Farms, Tyson Foods and several other companies must face private antitrust litigation accusing them of conspiring to inflate broiler chicken prices by reducing supply. Restaurants, supermarkets, distributors and consumers have accused chicken producers of having conspired starting in 2008 to inflate…
By Ricardo Brito and Gabriel Araujo BRASILIA (Reuters) – Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s political career was in tatters on Friday as Brazil’s federal electoral court (TSE) barred the far-right nationalist from public office until 2030 for his conduct during last year’s fraught election. Five out of seven justices voted to convict the 68-year-old Bolsonaro…
By Lizbeth Diaz MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – The prominent leader of a vigilante group in the western Mexican state of Michoacan was slain on Thursday, the local government said, in a brutal attack that left his body so badly burned that it was almost unrecognizable. The state attorney general’s office said at around midday it…
By Hernan Nessi BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Argentina’s economic slumped 4.2% in April from a year earlier, the country’s official INDEC statistics agency said on Friday, the worst drop since October 2020 and far lower than the 1.5% decline forecast by analysts as farming production slid. The South American nation is the world’s top exporter…
By Rodrigo Campos and Jorge Otaola NEW YORK/BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) -The International Monetary Fund said on Friday that Argentina is current in its payment obligations, after the government said it made a $2.7 billion payment to the fund using its existing stock of the IMF’s reserve assets, and Chinese currency. A spokesperson for Argentina’s economy…
By Nelson Bocanegra and Carlos Vargas BOGOTA (Reuters) -Colombia’s central bank board on Friday unanimously held the benchmark interest rate steady for the first time in nearly two years, with the market anxiously awaiting signs of when policymakers may begin to cut rates as inflation cools. All 22 analysts polled in a Reuters survey last…
By Daphne Psaledakis and Arshad Mohammed WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will discuss political, security and humanitarian crises in Haiti with Prime Minister Ariel Henry next week, a State Department official said on Friday. Blinken will travel to Guyana and neighboring Trinidad and Tobago on July 5-6, the State Department said….
