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MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AFP) – Nicaraguan firefighters on Friday were trying to bring under control a huge fire at their country’s only oil refinery that has been burning for two days, creating health fears over noxious smoke. The blaze started Wednesday when one of four big fuel tanks exploded at the Puma Energy facility in the Pacific port of Puerto Sandino, some 70 kilometers (40 miles) northwest of the capital Managua. A second tank ignited on Thursday […]
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP) – by Amelie BARON The United Nations’ belated acknowledgement it played a role in a cholera epidemic in Haiti that has killed nearly 10,000 people was hailed by victims’ advocates Thursday as vindication of their efforts to hold the world body accountable. The epidemic broke out in 2010 in the vicinity of a base housing UN peacekeepers, in an impoverished Caribbean country that previously had been considered cholera-free. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s […]
MEXICO CITY, Mexico (AFP) by Jennifer GONZALEZ COVARRUBIAS Mexican authorities transferred aging drug lord Ernesto Fonseca Carrillo to house arrest Thursday after serving 31 years in prison for the killing of a US undercover agent. Eduardo Guerrero, head of Mexico’s penitentiary system, said Fonseca Carrillo was moved to a house near Mexico City before dawn to finish the last nine years of his 40-year sentence following a judge’s order. “We tried for more than a year […]
Haitian legislators on Tuesday (June 21) delayed a vote on whether to extend the mandate of interim President Jocelerme Privert. Dozens of demonstrators supporting the interim government of interim President Jocelerme Privert protested outside a heavily guarded National Assembly. Some reports indicated that some legislators could not reach the building because of the protesters. Other reports said legislators simply did not show up. The Caribbean nation held a first-round vote in October, but a second-round […]
