Eike Batista, once the richest and most outspoken cheerleader for Brazil’s ill-fated commodities bubble, flew back to Rio de Janeiro Monday and was arrested at the airport by federal police over corruption allegations after four days as a fugitive. Batista, a brash entrepreneur whose meteoric rise and fall made him the poster boy of a decade-long boom in Brazil that… Read more »
Raging forest fires in central Chile have killed 10 people, displaced thousands and destroyed entire villages, the government said Thursday. Multiple blazes fueled by strong wind and drought conditions have ravaged 273,000 hectares (680,000 acres) in just over a week. The latest fatality was a fireman killed when a tree fell on his truck in the Biobio region 550 kilometers… Read more »
Mexico will not pay for Donald Trump’s border wall, the country’s president has said in a message to the nation. Enrique Pena Nieto said he “lamented” the plans for the barrier, adding that “Mexico doesn’t believe in walls”. But he made no mention of cancelling or postponing a trip to Washington on 31 January to meet the new US president…. Read more »
Six people have been killed and another eight wounded in a shooting at a mosque in Quebec City, Canada, police say. Shots were fired at the Quebec Islamic Cultural Centre on Sunday night, where more than 50 people had gathered for evening prayers.
Not long ago, any suggestion that Mexico might walk away from the North American Free Trade Agreement would have been met with utter disbelief. That was before Donald J. Trump was elected president of the United States. Free trade is a mantra of Mexico’s political elite, the core of the country’s development strategy. But now that Mr. Trump has said… Read more »
In this article, the first thing that struck me was that the gang was throwing decapitated bodies over the walls, then I read that some of the bodies were dismembered. After reflecting on this I thought about how the families would react, how they would respond to the question of, “How did blank die?” I couldn’t even fathom thinking about… Read more »
By SIMON ROMEROJAN. 2, 2017 Deadly Prison Riot in Brazil About 60 people died and several inmates escaped on Monday during a prison riot involving drug gangs in Manaus, Brazil, the local authorities said. RIO DE JANEIRO — A prison riot involving gangs vying for supremacy over the cocaine trade in the Brazilian Amazon left at least 56 people dead,… Read more »
In Colombia the UN has placed troops in zones to verify a ceasefire and cessation of hostiles. Recently, four troops were sent home due an incident in which they danced with FARC rebels at a New Years Eve party. This may seem to be an extreme course of action for a little bit of fun, but letting this type of… Read more »
For this week’s regional report, I really found the article “Behind fence, Mexico’s notorious Juarez is wary of Trump’s wall” to be the most interesting out of my four articles. I was really interested in this since it kind of goes with our unit right now on boundaries. I knew already that Mexico and the United States has fences up… Read more »
Jailed members of Brazil’s most powerful drug gang killed 31 inmates at a penitentiary on Friday, decapitating and cutting out the hearts of most of them, in revenge for a separate prison massacre that left 56 dead this week. The bloodletting in the Monte Cristo prison in the Amazonian state of Roraima, carried out by members of the First Capital… Read more »