BOGOTA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Killings and violence against LGBT people in Central America are driving hundreds to flee their homes each year, but they have no safe sanctuary to run to, Amnesty International said on Monday. Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people are being forced to leave El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala to escape “epidemic levels of violence” and… Read more »
SAN JOSE (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – This greenest of Central American nations this month broke the world record for the most consecutive days running on renewable energy – 300. But there’s one area where Costa Rica is still struggling to meet its Paris Agreement commitment to cut emissions, experts say: the transport system. “We’ve kept a very clean electrical grid… Read more »
CARACAS (Reuters) – Even by the volatile and violent standards of recent times in Venezuela, 2017 was an exceptional year, a “perfect storm” of political and economic crisis. Going into a fourth year of crippling recession, Venezuela’s 30 million people found themselves skipping meals, suffering shortages of basic foods and medicines, jostling in lines for ever-scarcer subsidized goods, unable to… Read more »
BOGOTA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Colombia’s palm oil industry and big businesses have pledged to eliminate deforestation from their supply chains as the country battles to reverse the growing destruction of its tropical rainforests. The commitment signed this week makes Colombia the first country in the world to launch its own chapter of the Tropical Forest Alliance 2020, a global… Read more »
After the controversial presidential election, the government in Honduras has imposed a 10-day curfew on its citizens as well as suppressed protests by use of military force. Yet these protesters want answers in regards to the presidential election results that have been delayed until Wednesday.
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Koch Supply & Trading Mexico (KMEX) booked an 85,000-barrel diesel fuel waterborne cargo to be supplied to Mexico in early December as it seeks to expand its presence in Mexico’s recently opened energy market.
RIO DE JANEIRO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Thousands of people are victims of forced labor and inhumane work conditions in Brazil’s booming meat and poultry industries, with some forced to work 20-hour days, researchers said on Thursday. Slave labor in Brazil’s poultry sector is “endemic”, said the report by the Washington-based Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) that called… Read more »
Tegucigalpa – Honduras descended deeper into crisis on Friday night as the government declared a 10-day curfew and empowered police and the military to crack down on the unrest that has erupted over the five-day delay in the release of official election results. The curfew suspends the right to free movement from 6:00pm to 6:00am (12:00 GMT – 00:00 GMT)… Read more »
Silva announced her plans at a meeting of her Sustainability Network Party, or REDE, which would officially nominate her at its national convention in April. The 59-year-old environmentalist, born into a rubber-tapping community in the Amazon rainforest, was minister under former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. She has run in the previous two presidential elections but never made it… Read more »