Video Clip inShare 1 Subscribe to our videos for free! It’s been over a year since Dilma Rousseff, Brazil’s first female president, was impeached for manipulating the public accounts. Today, her successor Michel Temer finds himself bogged down in a wide-ranging corruption scandal. His survival depends on Congress, which has the power decide to send him to court. So is… Read more »
Prosecutors in Brazil have formally charged the former head of the country’s Olympics committee with corruption during the campaign to win last year’s Games for Rio de Janeiro. Carlos Nuzman is accused of running a criminal organisation, money laundering and violating currency laws. The charges follow an investigation into a payment of $2m (£1.52m) to secure votes for the Rio… Read more »
Forensic tests on the body of an Argentine state prosecutor who died days after accusing President Cristina Fernandez of plotting to cover up Iran’s alleged role in a 1994 bombing indicate that he was murdered, his ex-wife said on Thursday. The mysterious circumstances surrounding Alberto Nisman’s death in January unleashed a storm of conspiracy theories. His former wife, Sandra Arroyo… Read more »
In Venezuela, 18 newly elected socialist governors have been sworn in by the constituent assembly. Five governors from the opposition Roundtable for Democracy (MUD) coalition boycotted the event. They said they refused to bow to the constituent assembly, which they consider illegitimate. The boycott is the latest stand-off between the opposition and the governing socialist party amid a grave economic… Read more »
Brad Wall pits West against Ottawa as Energy East project killed On Thursday, the company announced it won’t proceed with its Energy East Pipeline and Eastern Mainline proposals, citing existing and likely future delays resulting from the regulatory process. The proposed Energy East project would have carried oil from Alberta and Saskatchewan across the country to be refined in New… Read more »
Keystone XL could be Canada’s last big oil export pipeline Pipes for TransCanada’s planned Keystone XL oil pipeline are stored in Gascoyne, N.D., in November 2014. Pipes for TransCanada’s planned Keystone XL oil pipeline are stored in Gascoyne, N.D., in November 2014. (Andrew Cullen/Reuters) Joe McMonigle called it perfectly. The former chief of staff in the U.S. Department on Energy… Read more »
Energy East pipeline: What you need to know Prime Minister Justin Trudeau shakes hands with Montreal Mayor Denis Coderre following their joint press conference about the proposed Energy East pipeline in Montreal on Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2016. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau shakes hands with Montreal Mayor Denis Coderre following their joint press conference about the proposed Energy East pipeline in… Read more »
TransCanada pulls plug on Energy East pipeline The pipeline would have transported more than a million barrels of oil every day. The pipeline would have transported more than a million barrels of oil every day. (Reuters) TransCanada says it won’t proceed with its Energy East pipeline and Eastern Mainline proposals. Russ Girling, the Calgary-based energy company’s chief executive officer, said… Read more »