BOGOTA (Reuters) – Union leaders and Colombian government representatives met on Thursday for the second time this week but failed to reach an agreement to end protests against President Ivan Duque’s economic and social policies. The meeting took place just one day after a national strike organized by unions, students and advocacy groups drew thousands of protesters. “We remain deeply… Read more »
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – With Mexico’s government insisting that energy companies increase oil and gas output before it auctions off more of the country’s vast reserves or offers more partnerships with state-run Pemex, firms ranging from foreign majors to local players are scrambling to buy and sell blocks they already own. The negotiations are creating a dynamic secondary market for… Read more »
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Trump administration on Tuesday blacklisted six oil tankers involved in the shipment of Venezuelan oil to Cuba, the latest in a series of sanctions aimed at pressuring Havana to abandon its support for socialist Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. Six vessels belonging to state-run oil company Petróleos de Venezuela SA, or PDVSA, were targeted, according to a… Read more »
GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) – Guatemala received the first Salvadoran citizen from the United States under a new migration agreement that designates the Central American nation a so-called safe third country for asylum seekers, Guatemalan authorities said on Tuesday. The program kicked off in late November, when a Honduran man flew from El Paso, Texas, to Guatemala City on a nearly… Read more »
Jair Bolsonaro, the President of Brazil, received an unpleasant shock from US President Donald Trump this weekend. While Trump was at the NATO conference in London, he sent out a series of tweets saying that the US would be imposing tariffs on steel and aluminum for both Brazil and Argentina. Bolsonaro took this quite harshly, as he has stated in… Read more »
PARAMARIBO, Suriname (AP) — More than 1,500 supporters welcomed Suriname President Desi Bouterse as he returned Sunday to the South American country just days after a court convicted him in the 1982 killings of 15 political opponents. Bouterse dismissed the 20-year prison sentence that he received on Friday as he greeted supporters following an official trip to China. “There is… Read more »
SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s U.S.-focused foreign policy efforts suffered a severe setback on Monday when his American counterpart Donald Trump pledged to impose tariffs on steel and aluminum on the South American nation. Trump initially leveled the threat by Twitter while accusing Brazil and neighboring Argentina, governed by U.S. allies Bolsonaro and Mauricio Macri, of manipulating… Read more »
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — The head of one of the Dominican Republic’s largest drug trafficking organizations was arrested on Monday in Colombia, Dominican authorities said. César Emilio Peralta, widely known by his nickname César the Abuser, is accused of running a network that moved heroin and cocaine through Colombia, Venezuela, the Dominican Republic and the United States. He… Read more »
LIMA, Dec 5 (Reuters) – Peru and Washington are in the final stages of talks on a deal to promote American investments in the South American country as part of a U.S. initiative to counter Chinese influence in the region, a Peruvian diplomat told Reuters. The United States launched its “Growth in the Americas” initiative in 2018 to bolster private-sector… Read more »