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Q24N (Reuters) Venezuelan opposition leader Edmundo Gonzalez, who stood against President Nicolas Maduro in July’s election, last Wednesday said he was forced to sign a letter accepting a ruling from the country’s top court that recognized Maduro’s victory. “Either I signed or I faced the consequences,” he said in a […]

Q24N (VozdeAmerica) The government of Daniel Ortega opted for an information blackout – which contrary to its intention – ended up promoting an ecosystem of independent digital media that is informing the audience in Nicaragua from exile, according to experts, journalists and organizations that defend freedom of the press. The […]

Q24N (VozdeAmerica) Argentina ordered the issuance of arrest warrants for the purposes of extradition against Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his Minister of the Interior and Justice, Diosdado Cabello, so that they “face the law” for their alleged involvement in crimes against humanity. The Federal Court of Argentina ordered this […]

Q24N (BBC Mundo) Mexico has once again turned to the Japanese market. On August 22, the country placed some 152.2 billion yen (about US$1.04 billion) there through the financial instrument known as samurai bonds, according to its Ministry of Finance and Loans. It is not the first time that Mexico […]

Q24N (TheGuardian) For more than 20 years, Lidieth Gomez’s days have been punctuated by the hum of crop-spraying planes. At dawn and dusk, the skies over Matina, capital of Limón province on Costa Rica’s Caribbean coast, are filled with aircraft spraying a viscous rain of agrochemicals on to banana plantations. […]

Q24N (EFE via 14ymedio) At least 291 migrants have disappeared or died so far in 2024 on the dangerous maritime routes of the Caribbean, and international protection actions must be increased, according to the Program of Missing Migrants of the International Organization for Migration (IOM). The organization added that the […]

Q24N (EFE) The Minister of Security of El Salvador, Gustavo Villatoro, announced lastFriday that the country has a total of 700 non-consecutive days since 2019 without homicides, a count that has been questioned due to the lack of information and the exclusion of certain violent deaths in the figures. “We […]

Q24N (EFE) Panamanian president, José Raúl Mulino, announced last week actions that he will promote to face the “storm” of problems that the state-owned Social Security Fund (CSS) is going through, all to recover the entity, but, he assured, not with the desire to privatize it. “We are in the […]

Q24N — Costa Rica became one of the first countries globally to disband its military forces after its civil war ended in 1948 when José Figueres Ferrer abolished the army and directed defense funding to education and healthcare during his three presidential terms. Despite growing insecurity throughout Central America and […]

Q24N — The death of Alberto Fujimori, the deeply divisive former Peruvian president, comes amid a resurgence of interest in the former strongman – both from supporters and detractors. And in some regards, the usual customs following the demise of a former leader are being observed. Politicians, relatives and defenders […]