Iranian 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.
Read MoreColombia’s Constitutional Court was on Wednesday debating whether to lift a judicial ban on the aerial spraying of illicit coca crops with glyphosate, a weedkiller that is suspected of causing cancer.
Read MoreSome Cubans have been aware of the similarities between Italian fascism and the Cuban government, for decades already. They aren’t just pure coincidence. Venezuelans have also been under the same yoke for years, and have said so. A disaster that doesn’t recognize language or borders, is spreading without a solution in sight.
Read MoreIn El Salvador, Evelyn Hernandez, a rape survivor who was jailed and later freed after she had a stillbirth is being retried for aggravated homicide.
Read MoreBrazilian congressman Eduardo Bolsonaro, son of President Jair Bolsonaro [popularly dubbed the Brazilian Trump], said Friday the Foreign Ministry backs his father’s plans to appoint him as the country’s ambassador to the United States.
Read MoreA political crisis in Brazil is growing in the wake of The Intercept’s investigation into a judge who likely aided federal prosecutors in their corruption case against former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
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