BRASILIA (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and Brazilian leader Luis Inacio Lula de Silva on Monday assailed U.S. sanctions against Venezuela and Maduro said he hopes a regional South American summit in Brasilia will call for their removal. Lula called the U.S. sanctions “extremely exaggerated” and criticized the United States for denying the legitimacy…
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico will in 15 days launch a public tender for the construction of 10 industrial parks at a planned business corridor on an isthmus in the south of the country, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Monday. Auto makers, tech companies and semiconductor producers could be among investors in the…
By Dave Graham LOS REYES ACAQUILPAN, Mexico (Reuters) – Mexico’s ruling party next month looks likely to seize one of the last major opposition strongholds in a gubernatorial election that could also help determine its candidate to succeed leftist President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador next year. On June 4, voters must choose between two women…
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – Violence by armed gangs has fallen “drastically” since the emergence of a vigilante justice movement that has seen at least 160 suspected criminals killed in the last month, a report by local human rights research group CARDH said on Sunday. The situation in the Caribbean country remains extremely volatile as heavily armed…
By Andrew Hay TAOS, N.M. (Reuters) – Two people were killed and six wounded in a shootout during a motorcycle rally in Red River, northern New Mexico, on Saturday, state police said. Bikers began shooting at one another on the main street of the mountain town about 75 miles northeast of state capital Santa Fe…
By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) – JPMorgan Chase & Co Chief Executive Jamie Dimon said in a deposition on Friday that he had never met or communicated with late sex offender and former bank client Jeffrey Epstein, the bank said. The largest U.S. bank faces lawsuits seeking damages by women who claim that Epstein…
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexican authorities found 175 migrants, mostly from Guatemala, crowded into a truck trailer in the southern state of Chiapas, the National Migration Institute (INM) said on Friday, in the latest mass human smuggling incident to be detected in the country. Immigration agents heard yells and banging coming from inside the vehicle…
SAO PAULO (Reuters) -Brazil Finance Minister Fernando Haddad on Friday said the country is about to enter a downward cycle of interest rates, pointing out that inflation is “more behaved.” “We are about to.. have a downward cycle of interest rates. Inflation is more behaved,” Haddad said in an interview with local broadcaster GloboNews. “Long-term…
By Dave Sherwood HAVANA (Reuters) – The European Union will send a special human rights envoy to Cuba this year to discuss the aftermath of anti-government protests in July 2021, but the EU’s top diplomat said it will not “impose” demands on the Communist-run Caribbean nation. EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell, on a visit…
(Reuters) – Uruguayan fintech dLocal, the South American country’s first unicorn, saw its shares plummet on Friday, after Argentine news outlet Infobae published an article saying the government was investigating it for a possible fraud of at least $400 million. Citing unnamed official sources, Infobae said the Argentina government was investigating the fintech for “improper…
