RIO DE JANEIRO/SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Senator Flavio Bolsonaro received today endorsements from Ronaldo Caiado and Romeu Zema, two right-wing politicians who ran against him in yesterday’s first-round vote, for the runoff against President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva later this month.
(BBC) The right-wing Flávio Bolsonaro has won the first round of Brazil’s presidential election, beating the incumbent left-wing President Lula da Silva.
SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s lead over Senator Flavio Bolsonaro narrowed ahead of tomorrow’s first-round vote, a CNT/MDA poll showed today, while also pointing to a tighter race in a likely runoff.
(Reuters) – Former US Congressman David Rivera was sentenced to 10 years in prison yesterday for illegally lobbying US officials to ease pressure on ousted Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s government.
SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Brazil’s presidential campaign draws to a close today, ahead of voting on Sunday in a race that will determine whether Latin America’s largest nation follows the conservative shift that has swept the region or charts its own course.
LONDON, (Reuters) – The International Monetary Fund is looking to set up an office in Venezuela it said today, although the country’s government has not requested an IMF programme or any other sort of funding at this stage.
(US State Department release) Under the Trump Administration, corrupt foreign officials can no longer freely enter the United States.
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s interim President Delcy Rodriguez arrived in New York this week for the UN General Assembly seeking business deals on debt, energy and mining, to demonstrate the once sanctioned country was open for business again after US forces removed her predecessor in January.
(Reuters) – Brazil does not underestimate the threat posed by organized crime and is prepared to combat criminal groups operating in the country and across borders, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva told the UN General Assembly today.Lula
GENEVA, (Reuters) – Nicaragua’s state institutions have together carried out enforced disappearances, torture and arbitrary detention of political opponents, conduct that amounts to crimes against humanity, according to a report published today by UN experts.
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – The Inter-American Development Bank is drawing up a two-year engagement plan for Venezuela focused partly on electricity and social protection, IDB President Ilan Goldfajn said today.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – US President Donald Trump will have a meeting with Venezuela’s interim President Delcy Rodriguez in New York on Tuesday, a senior US official said on Friday, in what will be the first in-person meeting between the two leaders since Washington ousted former Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro in January.
BOGOTA, (Reuters) – The United States has removed Venezuela from its list of countries which have failed to demonstrably combat illegal drug trafficking for the first time in more than 20 years, U.S.
(Reuters) – Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado faces a growing dilemma over when to return home from abroad to rally support amid reticence from the Trump administration about her homecoming, four opposition sources and two political analysts said.
GENEVA, (Reuters) – A U.N.-mandated probe said today that Venezuela’s apparatus of repression remains largely intact despite a reduction in some abuses following President Nicolas Maduro’s removal from power earlier this year.
(Reuters) – A Colombian-born businessman with close ties to ousted Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro pleaded guilty yesterday in a U.S.
SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Two opinion polls released today showed Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and right-wing Senator Flavio Bolsonaro statistically tied in a potential second-round runoff ahead of next month’s election.
QUITO, (Reuters) – An Ecuadorean court sentenced former President Abdala Bucaram to nine years and four months of imprisonment on Wednesday for his involvement in a criminal organization that fraudulently sold medical supplies during the COVID-19 pandemic.
(Reuters) – Following are facts about Venezuela’s mining sector, which is attracting interest from U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration.
BRASÍLIA, (Reuters) – An open conflict between justices has engulfed Brazil’s Supreme Court, as it weighs whether to investigate two of its own in what may be the biggest test of its credibility since the country returned to democracy four decades ago.
