Celebrations were held throughout the night in Puerto Rico after Governor Ricardo Rosselló announced he would resign, following 12 days of mass protests. This came two days after more than 500,000 Puerto Ricans took to the streets in one of the largest protests in Puerto Rico’s history.
Read MoreThe United States is unfairly pointing the finger at Colombia as the sole culprit for the cocaine trade, the governor of the country’s top coca-producing region says. For the war on drugs to be successful, Camilo Romero says, Western countries need to reduce their demand for cocaine.
Read MoreBy Sinikka Tarvainen, dpa HAVANA TIMES – Colombia’s decades-long war against drug trafficking has yielded no results, with cocaine production
Read MoreElectricity was back on briefly in Caracas early on Tuesday following a massive blackout that hit Venezuela on Monday, but several regions remained without power. However, even in the capital the joy of electricity didn’t last long. Aporrea reports that shortly after 9 a.m. a new power failure hit Caracas…
Read MoreVenezuela on Monday experienced a massive power cut affecting all of its states, The blackout sent 94 per cent of the country’s telecommunications infrastructure offline, according to Netblocks, reported dpa news.
Read MoreIranian Foreign Minister Mohamad Javad Zarif was welcomed on Sunday at the Managua airport by President Daniel Ortega’s son and government investments representative Laureano Ortega and the Nicaraguan Foreign Minister Denis Moncada.
Read MoreMexican authorities froze the bank accounts of 19 people and companies related to the sale of low quality and over-priced food to the Venezuelan government. The products are aimed at the poorest population, said an official of the Mexican Ministry of Finance.
Read MoreColombia’s Constitutional Court on Thursday maintained a judicial ban on the aerial spraying of illicit coca crops with glyphosate, saying the government would first have to prove that the weed killer is not harmful to human health and the environment. President Ivan Duque’s government had asked the court to lift the ban.
Read MoreClose to 100,000 Puerto Ricans took to the streets Wednesday chanting “Ricky Renuncia!” as they called for the resignation of Governor Ricardo Rosselló, following the leak by Puerto Rico’s Center for Investigative Journalism of hundreds of misogynistic, homophobic and violent text messages between Rosselló and members of his Cabinet.
Read MoreWhen the siblings turned themselves in to US Border Patrol near El Paso, Texas, in mid-April, agents separated them. “Where are you taking him?” she asked. “He’s going to a better place than you,” she said an agent replied. But as we have found, Gloria’s brother, like other children in Border Patrol detention, certainly was not going to a good place.
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