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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (Reuters) – Friends, family and neighbors of a 19-year-old pregnant suspected murder victim lit several cars on fire and threw rocks at police outside a police station in the city of Glew south of Buenos Aires on Wednesday (July 5). Local news outlets reported the violence broke out because police had not yet charged anyone in the death of Ayelen Roldan, who was found hanged to death in a home in the […]
GUATEMALA CITY, Guatemala (AFP) – Guatemala will extradite Mexican ex-governor Javier Duarte for him to face racketeering and money-laundering charges after he told a court Tuesday he wanted to return home to clear his name. Duarte is known for presiding over an explosion of violence and human rights abuses in the eastern state of Veracruz from 2010 to 2016, when he abruptly resigned and went into hiding. Arrested at a lakeside resort in Guatemala in […]
BOGOTA, Colombia (AFP) – The leader of the rebel group Colombia’s Revolutionary Armed Forces (FARC) was released Tuesday from a hospital where he was treated after he suffered a mild stroke, the government said Tuesday. After spending two days in the hospital, Rodrigo Londono has now travelled to Cuba to continue his convalescence, the high commissioner for the country’s peace process said. Doctors said the FARC leader, 58, checked himself into a hospital in Villavicencio in […]
MADISON COUNTY, New York (Reuters) — A powerful storm system in Madison County, in central New York state, flooded streets and toppled over power lines and trees on Saturday (July 1). Roadways turned dangerous for motorists after water and debris filled the streets, local media reported, citing the Madison County Sheriff’s Office. Several thousand residents lost power that was eventually restored by night time.
BRASILIA, Brazil (AFP) — Brazil’s Supreme Court on Thursday sent a corruption charge against President Michel Temer to Congress for it to decide whether the president should be put on trial. Although just a formality, the handover of the case meant one more step forward in the growing crisis that threatens to bring down Temer just over a year after he took power following his predecessor’s impeachment. The center-right leader this week became the first […]
(Reuters) — Argentine police have seized at least five tons of cocaine in the city of Berazategui, located in the Buenos Aires province, local media reported on Wednesday (June 28). The drugs were found in an abandoned semi-trailer truck with a thermal box, within a hidden compartment. Police seized more than 7,000 packages from the truck which are still being counted, local media reported. This means that the amount of the drugs confiscated could increase. […]
CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters) — Drama broke out at Venezuela’s National Assembly on Tuesday (June 27) where two dozen lawmakers said they were being besieged by pro-government gangs. Video that emerged on social media showed National Guard troops outside the National Assembly as opposition legislators shouted. The National Assembly chaos came as a Venezuelan police helicopter attacked the Supreme Court, ratcheting up a political crisis in what President Nicolas Maduro condemned as a “terrorist” attack. There […]
BRASILIA, Brazil (AFP) — Brazilian prosecutors filed corruption charges against President Michel Temer on Monday, a step toward possibly making him the country’s first serving leader to face a criminal trial. In a filing to the Supreme Court, the public prosecution service accused Temer of receiving a 500,000-real (about $150,000) bribe from the boss of a meatpacking company implicated in a corruption scandal.
BOGOTA, Colombia (AFP) — At least three people were dead and 30 were missing after a boat carrying some 150 tourists sank in a reservoir in northwestern Colombia on Sunday, police said. Officials did not indicate what caused the boat to sink in the El Penol reservoir in the tourist town of Guatape. “So far we have three people deceased” and “approximately 30 missing,” police commander Jorge Hernando Nieto said on BluRadio.
GUATEMALA CITY, Guatemala (AFP) — A powerful 6.8-magnitude earthquake hit near Guatemala’s coast Thursday, injuring four people and damaging homes and roads, officials said, just eight days after another strong tremor killed five people in the Central American country. The quake struck at 6:31 am (1231 GMT) with its epicenter in the Pacific Ocean at a depth of 46.8 kilometers, about 23 kilometers (14 miles) southwest of Puerto San Jose, the United States Geological Survey […]
GUATEMALA CITY, Guatemala (AFP) — A strong 6.9-magnitude earthquake hit Guatemala and southern Mexico Wednesday, killing five people, causing power outages, and knocking down homes, officials said. The epicenter was about 156 kilometers (97 miles) west of Guatemala City in the department of San Marcos, the Institute of Seismology said. The tremor was felt across most of the country, including the capital, as well as in neighboring Mexico, according to Guatemala’s National Coordinator for Disaster […]
GUATEMALA CITY, Guatemala (AFP) — A strong 6.9 magnitude earthquake hit western Guatemala early on Wednesday, killing at least one person and causing power cuts, as well as damage to some buildings, officials said. The quake, originally estimated to measure 6.6 on the Richter scale before being revised upward, occurred at 1:29 am (0729 GMT), epicentered 156 kilometers (97 miles) west of Guatemala City in the department of San Marcos, the Institute of Seismology said. […]
