Nicaragua will hold general elections on November 6, to elect president, vice president, 90 national MPs and 20 representatives to the Central American Parliament, the Supreme Electoral Council announced late Friday. ... More
The Bolivian government has signed a contract with German engineering firm Siemens in order to expand the generating capacity of a thermoelectric plant from 200 to 480 megawatts of power. ... More
Mexican officials have began to sing a different song about presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump. As there is now the possibility that he could win in November, members of the Mexican government have taken a softer tone towards the controversial Trump. ... More
A special committee of Brazil's Senate has voted to continue impeachment measures against President Dilma Rousseff... More
The Secretary General of the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR), Ernesto Samper, has expressed serious concern regarding efforts by Brazilian lawmakers to impeach President Dilma Rousseff.... More
The Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America - Peoples’ Trade Treaty (Alba-TCP) has condemned Washington's renewal of the “Venezuela Defense of Human Rights and Civil Society Act” of 2014, by means of which the United States has extended sanctions imposed on the Bolivarian nation until 2019.... More
The Ecuadorean state-owned insurance company “Seguros Sucre” confirmed Wednesday that it would disburse between US$500 to 800 million in compensation to those whose insured buildings suffered damage as a result of the 7.8 earthquake that hit the country on April 16th.... More
Police in the Chilean capital of Santiago have fired water cannons at student protesters during a rally against the government’s educational reforms.... More
Hundreds marched in Mexico to mark 10 years since a brutal police raid on the town of Atenco.... More
Israeli warplanes have bombed the Gaza Strip for the third straight day, escalating fears of a new flare-up in a military confrontation with the Palestinians... More
Greek labor unions are taking a three-day general industrial action to vent their anger at a new round of austerity measures demanded by international lenders under the cash-strapped country’s third bailout package.... More
U.S. Speaker of the House Paul Ryan says he is "just not ready" to support Donald Trump as the Republican Party’s presumptive presidential nominee.... More
A U.S. federal judge in Washington says he may order Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton to testify under oath about whether she used a private e-mail server as U.S. secretary of state to evade public records disclosures.... More
Thousands of people have been airlifted from camps in the Fort McMurray area in Canada’s Alberta Province as a massive wildfire rages nearby. ... More
Most U.S. citizens say it would be better if the United States just dealt with its own problems and let other nations deal with their own problems as best they can, according to a new poll from the Pew Research Center.... More
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