CARACAS, Nov. 26 (Xinhua) — Venezuelan authorities have seized 15 tons of cocaine over the weekend in the western state of Zulia on the Colombian border, Interior Minister Nestor Reverol said on Monday. On Nov. 24, 3.2 tons of cocaine were seized. The drugs were discovered in sacks near the Oro River, which is near the border between Venezuela and… Read more »
RIO DE JANEIRO, Nov. 26 (Xinhua) — Brazil’s Health Ministry on Monday signed a deal to significantly reduce the sugar levels of industrialized food products. According to the ministry, the government is committed to reducing the sugar levels of those products by 144,000 tons by 2022. A total of 68 companies and 1,147 products are included in the agreement. The… Read more »
BUENOS AIRES, Nov. 27 (Xinhua) — As the host of the upcoming Group of 20 (G20) Summit, Argentina aims to consolidate the gathering’s role as an effective multilateral mechanism and redefine the summit with an eye to the future, a senior official of the country has said
A safe place for the LGBT community is Ipanema, in Rio de Janeiro, where the recognition of difference is tolerated thanks to a more open mentality, far from any religious behavior. The samples of affection integrate the panorama in Ipanema, but everything changes in the rest of the country indicates the BBC.
The bribes that Odebrecht gave to obtain large public works contracts reached the highest spheres of political and economic power in Latin America. Hence, for example, the former president of Peru, Pedro Pablo Kuczynski,resigned to his position; and that former presidents Ollanta Humala, Alejandro Toledo and Alan García are: condemned, fugitive and investigated in this same case.
Alan García, former Peruvian president, implicated in the Odebrecht scandal, requested asylum at the Uruguayan embassy, after he was denied the possibility of leaving the country for 18 months. According to reports, the former president had received alleged bribes paid by the Brazilian company for the tender of the first line of the Lima metro. It was in July of… Read more »
The Foundation for Press Freedom headed by the coordinator of Defense and Attention to Journalists at FLIP, Luisa Fernanda Isaza, informed El Heraldo newspaper that “in the first 10 months of 2018, 240 journalists have been threatened.“ This was made known during the celebration of the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists decreed by Unesco. This figure is higher than… Read more »
Mothers with their children, older adults, and young people are part of the Honduran migrant’s caravan. The caravan crosses Mexico to reach the US and fulfill a dream: having a better quality of life. Leer en español: No están solos: así se solidariza Latinoamérica con las migraciones While the Central Americans advance in the middle of the sun and the rain,… Read more »
The Honduran and Salvadoran caravan of migrants, according to the UN Agency for Refugees (UNHCR), is divided into five groups totaling 16,000 people. Among children, adults, youth and seniors, of which close to 3,000 have already made it to the US-Mexico border, have had to face in their long walk a series of risks ranging from health problems, xenophobia, being deported, to a… Read more »
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman was “the boss” of Mexico’s Sinaloa Cartel, a witness told jurors in the accused Mexican drug lord’s trial in Brooklyn federal court on Monday, contradicting the claim by Guzman’s lawyers that his dominance of the drug trade was a myth. Miguel Angel Martinez, who described himself as a former manager in the… Read more »