Guatemala’s foreign minister says her country’s decision to move its embassy in Israel to Jerusalem is final, urging the international community to “respect” this commitment. “It’s a decision that has been made … It is not going to be reversed,” Sandra Jovel told journalists on Friday, according to a report from the AFP news agency. “The Guatemalan government is very… Read more »
North Korean diplomats after declaring them persona non grata over Pyongyang’s “continued violations” of UN Security Council resolutions with its nuclear programme. “The government of Peru has informed the North Korean embassy of its decision to declare First Secretary Pak Myong Chol and Third Secretary Ji Hyok persona non grata as officers of the aforementioned diplomatic mission in Lima,” Peru’s… Read more »
Police in Peru have fired tear gas and clashed with protesters demonstrating against the official pardon of ex-president Alberto Fujimori. Tensions were high in Peru’s capital, Lima, on Monday, as thousands took to the streets, a day after current President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski ordered Fujimori’s clemency on health grounds. In 2009, Fujimori was sentenced to 25 years in prison for… Read more »
Tegucigalpa – Honduras’ beleaguered elections commission officially declared incumbent Juan Orlando Hernandez as president-elect on Sunday amid ongoing opposition cries of fraud three weeks after election day. Hernandez, Honduras’ first president to seek a second term in office, won by 50,446 votes, according to the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE). The TSE reported that Hernandez received 42.95 percent of the vote,… 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 »
An occupation is a stretch of land that many Brazilian families have set up tents on due to their inability to pay for housing. In Sao Paulo especially, these families are hoping to pressure their government into building more low-income housing so that they can move out of these “squatter towns” and have a place of their own.