MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexican authorities found 129 migrants, mostly from Guatemala, crowded into a truck trailer in the eastern state of Veracruz, the National Migration Institute (INM) said in a statement on Saturday. The migrants were crammed into a trailer in the midst of a heat wave in Mexico, where higher-than-normal temperatures have topped…
TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) – Honduran economic growth is seen slowing to about 3% in 2023, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) estimated in a statement issued on Friday, pointing to fewer remittances and pressures on the energy and farm sectors stemming from drought conditions. The Central American country’s economy expanded by 4% last year, according to official…
By Harold Isaac PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) -As Haiti’s police struggle to contain powerful armed gangs, a disagreement between the Dominican Republic and Canada spilled out into the public on Friday, further complicating an international plan to boost Haiti’s outgunned police force. A day after Canada’s Foreign Minister Melanie Joly announced plans to set up a Canadian…
SAN JOSE (Reuters) – The World Bank approved a new $500 million loan to Costa Rica aimed at strengthening support for the government’s budget, according to a statement from the international lender released on Friday. The loan will support the Central American country’s post-pandemic efforts to grow employment and wages and assist small and medium-sized…
(Reuters) – Ecuadorean security forces have confiscated pigs, fighting cocks and more than two dozen bladed weapons, among other items, from a high-security wing of Bellavista prison in the city of Santo Domingo, the country’s military said on Friday. Police and operatives of the SNAI prison authority were shown wheeling out two pigs from the…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Kevin McCarthy on Friday threatened to use congressional appropriations to block funding for a U.S. visa waiver program for Chile, blaming rising criminal activity in the United States on the program. At a news conference in Santa Ana, California, McCarthy called on U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro…
By Ricardo Brito BRASILIA (Reuters) -One of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s closest aides sought legal advice for a military intervention that would have prevented the handover of power following last October’s election, federal police said on Friday. Lieutenant Colonel Mauro Cid was one of Bolsonaro’s personal assistants who stayed on as an aide after…
By Robertson Henry KINGSTOWN (Reuters) – Humanitarian aid to Haiti will need to take into account the influence of heavily armed gangs who control large parts of the country, the president of a regional bloc said ahead of planned talks with the European Union next month. “If anybody wants to deliver humanitarian assistance to Haiti,…
By Kylie Madry MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -Mexico will extend the deadline for cargo airlines to move operations from the capital’s main airport to a farther-away one following U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg’s visit to the country, Mexico’s transportation ministry said Friday. Earlier Friday, local outlet El Financiero had reported the deadline was moved to September,…
By Ana Mano SAO PAULO (Reuters) – The Brazilian unit of U.S. grains merchant Cargill has asked a bankruptcy court to halt the auction of two plants owned by soy crusher Imcopa, scheduled for June 27, in the latest twist of a running legal saga involving rival Bunge. In court documents seen by Reuters, Cargill…
