BRAZIL – Vote annulled
BRASILIA –– A Brazilian lawmaker’s surprise announcement Monday sent the country’s scandal-plagued government spinning as a key question looms: Will a Senate vote to impeach President Dilma Rousseff go...
View ArticleBrazil’s senate debates impeachment
BRASILIA –– The Brazilian Senate was expected to suspend President Dilma Rousseff on Wednesday in a vote to put her on trial for breaking budget laws, pushing a deeply unpopular leader from power and...
View ArticleBRAZIL – Impeached!
BRASILIA — Brazil’s suspended President Dilma Rousseff vowed Thursday to use “all legal means” to fight permanent ouster in an impeachment trial, raising the specter of continued political turmoil as...
View ArticleMEXICO – Deadly clashes between police and teachers
OAXACA — Violent clashes between police and members of a radical teachers’ union who had blockaded roads in southern Mexico on Sunday left six people dead and more than 100 injured, officials said. The...
View ArticleDrug-resistant ‘super bacteria’ found in Rio
RIO DE JANIERO –– A group of Brazilian scientists have detected a drug-resistant bacteria growing off of some of Rio de Janeiro’s most stunning beaches, one month before the city is due to host the...
View ArticleMEXICO – Kidnapped!
MEXICO CITY— The son of imprisoned drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman may be among the half-dozen men abducted by gunmen at a restaurant in the Mexican beach resort of Puerto Vallarta, authorities...
View ArticleColombia ends 50 years of fighting
BOGOTA – A conflict that lasted over five decades. An estimated 220,000 people killed and over five million displaced. These staggering figures will be consigned to history as the Colombian government...
View ArticleMEXICO – First ‘three person baby’ born using new method
MEXICO – The world’s first baby has been born using a new “three person” fertility technique, New Scientist reveals. The five-month-old boy has the usual DNA from his mum and dad, plus a tiny bit of...
View ArticleArgentine president vows unity
BUENOS AIRES –– Mauricio Macri has been sworn in as Argentina’s president, vowing to unite the nation and revive the economy. The centre-right Macri took the oath of office in Congress but his...
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MEXICO – El Chapo captured
MEXICO CITY — Fugitive drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman was recaptured six months after he escaped from a maximum security prison, Mexica’s President Enrique Pena Nieto announced today. A federal...
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BRAZIL – Rousseff isolated
BRASILIA –– Brazil’s largest party announced on Tuesday it was leaving President Dilma Rousseff’s governing coalition and pulling its members from her government, a departure that sharply raises the...
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BRAZIL – Men in foil suits attempt to rob bank
RIO DE JANIERO –– Two would-be robbers left a shiny impression on police in southern Brazil, when they chose an unusual form of camouflage during an attempted bank robbery: head-to-toe aluminum foil....
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BRAZIL – Rousseff impeachment process begins
BRASILIA –– Pro-impeachment lawmakers chanted “Dilma Out” in the lower house of Brazil Congress on Friday, as it opened a raucous three-day debate on whether to impeach President Dilma Rousseff on...
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ECUADOR – Three rescued
MANTA — Rescuers in Ecuador pulled three people out alive after being trapped for more than 32 hours in the rubble of a shopping center that was flattened by this weekend’s powerful earthquake....
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BRAZIL – Cabinet in crisis
BRASILIA –– Brazil’s beleaguered President Dilma Rousseff will travel to New York in a bid to rally international support against her impeachment, leaving behind a Cabinet paralyzed by political crisis...
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Huge drugs tunnel found in San Diego
One of the longest cross-border drugs-smuggling tunnels between Mexico and the US has been found by authorities in San Diego, American officials say. They say the 800m (874 yards) tunnel was used to...
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MEXICO – 13 die in oil plant blast
MEXICO CITY –– The death toll in an explosion that struck a Mexican oil plant on Wednesday has reached 13 and could rise further. The head of Mexico’s emergency services, Luis Felipe Puente, said ten...
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Venezuela’s parliament votes to try president
CARACAS – Venezuela’s opposition-led parliament has voted to open a trial against President Nicolas Maduro, accusing him of violating the constitution. The move comes after last week’s suspension of a...
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MEXICO – Snake on a plane
MEXICO CITY – Where’s Samuel L. Jackson when you need him? Because we can put up with a lot of things, but a snake dangling overhead while we’re on a plane is not one of them. That’s the situation...
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EL SALVADOR – Earthquake and hurricane hit Central America
SAN SALVADOR –– A strong earthquake off the Pacific Coast of Central America shook the region on Thursday just as a hurricane barreled into the Caribbean coasts of Nicaragua and Costa Rica, but there...
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