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(Reuters) Mariangel Caceres’ teachers, whose salaries do not buy enough food to live on, stopped showing up for classes early this year. The state school in the verdant Andean state of Tachira in Venezuela also had to cut back on providing meals due to nationwide food shortages. So when the leftist government in April decreed Friday school closings to save electricity, it was the last straw. “I left school a week after Easter,” said Caceres, […]
United Nations, United States—Israel on Monday was elected to chair a United Nations committee for the first time in the world body’s 71-year history, triggering strong protests from Arab countries and the Palestinians. Israeli Ambassador Danny Danon won the chair of the legal affairs committee of the General Assembly by picking up 109 votes from the 193 member-states. Danon’s candidacy was put to a vote by secret ballot at the request of Arab countries. All […]
PUEBLA, Mexico (AFP)–Two people were killed and at least six others seriously wounded in Mexico when armed men opened fire on players and spectators at an amateur baseball game, authorities said. The attorney general’s office in the state of Puebla said the attack occurred Sunday in the town of Acatzingo, 170 kilometers (105 miles) from Mexico City. “According to witnesses, three vehicles arrived, the occupants dismounted and opened fire. They opened fire equally against players and […]
Former investment banker Pedro Pablo Kuczynski had a wafer-thin lead on Tuesday (June 07) over rival Keiko Fujimori in the latest tally from Peru’s presidential race, with tens of thousands of votes from abroad and in remote jungle villages still to be counted. The results in Peru’s tightest election in at least 50 years gave Kuczynski a 0.34 percentage point edge over Fujimori, the daughter of a jailed former president. Ballots from Peruvians living in […]
MEXICO CITY, Mexico (AFP)–Mexico’s government announced Tuesday measures to reduce smog in the capital by preventing corruption at emission inspection centers that have allowed polluting cars to stay on the road. The environment ministry unveiled the new rules three months after authorities issued the first air quality alert in 13 years in the greater Mexico City area. Normally, cars that pass emissions tests are allowed to drive every day while those that fail have to stay off […]
Haiti’s electoral council on Monday (June 06) announced that it is scrapping the results of a disputed presidential vote and setting a new election date, a move that could see interim president Jocelerme Privert stay in office until next year. The Caribbean nation held a first-round vote in October, but a second-round run-off was postponed several times after losing candidates alleged fraud. Privert was chosen as an interim leader when the last president left office […]
Ecuadorean authorities signed on Monday (June 6), a 1.2 billion-dollar contract with Dubai’s DP World, for the construction of Ecuador’s first deep water port. Authorities from the Arab Emirates’s state company attended the signing in Quito, where the contract was finalised for the public-private endeavour involving the construction and 50 years’ of operation of the Posorja Port, connecting to the Panama Canal. Critics said the contract should have been awarded via a public tender, given […]
Voting in Mexico’s regional elections got underway without major incidents, Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto said on Sunday (June 5). The regional elections pose a major test for the ruling party’s hopes of retaining the presidency in 2018 as discontent over corruption and violence fuels support for the anti-establishment message of a resurgent leftist firebrand. Voters were choosing new governors in a dozen of Mexico’s 31 states, including bastions of President Pena Nieto’s Institutional Revolutionary […]
Rio Mayor Eduardo Paes inaugurated a stretch of the city’s new tramway on Sunday (June 5), exactly two months ahead of the start of the Olympics Games. The Very Light Tramway, or VLT as the tram is known in Rio, was inaugurated in a carnival spirit, with a samba band entertaining as the system’s first passengers. Paes stressed, however, that the Olympics were more than just a celebration. “It is a legacy for the city. […]
Polling firm Ipsos said a quick count of 84.5 percent of sample ballots in Peru’s presidential election showed Pedro Pablo Kuczynski won 50.9 percent of votes compared to Keiko Fujimori’s 49.1 percent in Peru’s presidential election on Sunday (June 5). Polling company GfK said Kuczynski likely won 51.5 percent of votes and Fujimori 48.5 percent with 77 percent of sample ballots counted. Kuczynski waved to supporters gathered in Lima along with his wife Nancy Lange […]
by Sebastian Smith RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AFP) — Rio police arrested two men Monday and hunted four others in the alleged gang rape of an unconscious teenage girl that came to light in an online video that shocked Brazil. Globo television showed footage of heavily armed police in black uniforms outside a house in a favela in the west of Rio de Janeiro, which will host the Olympics in August. They were searching for […]
by Luis Jaime CISNEROS LIMA, Peru (AFP) — Peru presidential hopeful Keiko Fujimori touted her political leadership skills Sunday in a final debate with center-right rival Pedro Pablo Kuczynski one week before a runoff vote. Fujimori, 41, a right-wing populist with the Popular Force party, has 46 percent of public backing going into the June 5 vote, polling firm Ipsos found in a survey also published on Sunday. Her rival, 77 year-old center-right economist Kuczynski, […]
