Mexican drug lord Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada would have been deceived by the son of Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán and violently forced to board an aircraft that took him from Sinaloa to El Paso, Texas, United States, according to his testimony given to Reuters on Saturday by his lawyer in that country. “El Mayo,” explained ...
According to reports this Saturday, In the coming days, a direct conversation will take place between Presidents Gustavo Petro, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Andrés Manuel López Obrador with the dictator leader, Nicolás Maduro.in order to seek alternatives that allow a democratic transition in the neighboring country and to confront the wave of violence ...
The Israeli currency and dollar bonds posted some of the biggest gains in emerging markets after the country announced it would send a delegation to a new round of talks on a ceasefire agreement with Hamas. The shekel rose 1.1% against the U.S. dollar as of 11:41 a.m. in Tel Aviv, one of the biggest ...
Colombia is among the countries that have experienced the largest reduction in its birth rate between 2022 and 2023.The country is fourth, after Poland, Ireland and the Czech Republic, in which fewer women are giving birth. On the other hand, in developing countries such as the Philippines, Thailand and Malaysia the birth rate is growing. ...
The Observer – Montevideo The Central Bank of Uruguay (BCU) projects that the Uruguayan economy will grow by an average of 2.5% this year.and with exports as the “main driver”, boosted by the reversal of the effects of the drought on agriculture. That estimate is 0.5 percentage points lower than the one released in the ...
Defying an arrest warrant against him, former Catalan independence leader Carles Puigdemont He appeared at a rally in Barcelona on Thursday after seven years of self-imposed exile and then disappeared, prompting a frantic police search for him. Faced with a heavy police presence, Puigdemont spoke to a crowd of thousands of supporters in the Catalan ...
The Argentine government on Tuesday reduced a tax on beef exports by 25% to 6.75% from 9% previously.partly fulfilling a promise that libertarian president Javier Milei had made to agricultural producers. Argentina is a traditional world exporter of beef, The main destination of which is the Chinese market, which in the first half of the ...
The election of the vice president Kamala Harris for his running mate came down to two governors: one who offered to hand over the most populous battleground of 2024 but threatened to alienate important factions of the partyand a little-known contender with progressive credentials from a reliably blue state. In the end, Harris passed over ...
Following the conclusion of a mission by the International Monetary Fund to El Salvador, headed by Raphael Espinoza, the multilateral organization recognized the measures taken by the government of the Central American country in order to address macroeconomic imbalances, strengthen public finances and increase banks’ “reserve buffers”. On the fiscal front, agreements were reached for ...
The United States and its allies worked to prevent an Iranian attack on Israel and avert a wider regional war as concerns grew that a retaliatory strike could come at any time for the killing of a senior Hamas leader in Tehran. The Biden administration moved additional forces to the region and Secretary of State ...
