September, 19 2017 (Panampost) By Fernando Valdés In Mexico, freedom of expression is fully recognized by the law, and in day-to-day life it seems to be absolute; however, this is only true until the moment when truth clears the blurry line between what is political and what is criminal. Murder “Beware. They are coming for [...]

September, 19 2017 (Panampost) President Ecuador Lenin Moreno directly addressed former President Rafael Correa during his weekly television program, regarding a hidden camera that was found in his office. “Did you give the order to have that camera installed?” He asked. “What did you use it for? Why was I was not informed of its [...]

September, 21 2017 (Reuters) NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said on Thursday a range of options remained on the table, including a possible oil embargo, if Venezuela did not move to restore its democratic processes. “There’s a lot of support in Latin America to see Venezuela start to [...]

September, 11 2017 (Marketslant) If you think all this conspiracy theory stuff is just nonsense, we are with you. But the WTC 7 collapse still doesn't make sense to us. It has always had more in common with an opportunist insurance scam than a true collapse. But we are beyond looking deeper. Thankfully, some are [...]

September, 17 2017 (BBC) Lawmakers from Bolivia's governing Movement Towards Socialism party (MAS) have asked the Constitutional Court to allow President Evo Morales to run for a fourth term, despite the constitution preventing him from doing so. The move comes a year and a half after Bolivians voted against changing the constitution to remove term [...]

September, 18 2017 (Boingboing) Florida Power and Light's grid did not fare well under Hurricane Irma, despite the company's assurances that it had spent billions hardening its systems after 90% of its customers lost power to 2005's Hurricane Wilma. But one thing has changed since 2005: solar. Many of the FPL customers who are living [...]

September, 21 2017 (Reuters) MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Tempers frayed in Mexico City on Friday as the search for survivors amidst twisted rubble of collapsed buildings began to wind down three days after the country’s most deadly earthquake in a generation. The 7.1 magnitude quake leveled 52 buildings in the sprawling Mexican capital at lunchtime [...]

September, 13 2017 (Panampost) International Criminal Court Chief Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda traveled to Colombia with several concerns about the implementation of the FARC disarmament treaty established with President Juan Manuel Santos’ administration, which has been criticized for slowness and an alarming number of extrajudicial executions. Bensouda’s agenda in the country included following up on the [...]

September, 13 2017 (Panampost) Citigroup released a report following a meeting that its representatives and investors held with Mexico‘s left-wing leader Andrés Manuel López Obrador, also known as AMLO. In the statement, the bank expressed its doubts about the viability of the plan AMLO intends to implement should he become President in 2018. Analysts from [...]

September, 13 2017 (Reuters) SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazil’s federal police on Wednesday arrested the chief executive of JBS SA, the world’s No. 1 meatpacker, accusing him of insider trading ahead of a plea bargain he signed this year whose disclosure pummeled the company’s stock. Wesley Batista, who has been at the helm of JBS [...]

September, 12 2017 (BBC) A ballet dancer jailed for hiding Peru's most-wanted man in her flat has been released after 25 years in jail. Maritza Garrido Lecca, 52, was sentenced in 1992 after the leader of the Shining Path rebel group, Abimael Guzmán, was found in her apartment. The Maoist guerrilla group was largely dismantled [...]

September, 12 2017 (BBC) Brazil's President Michel Temer has accused his country's judiciary of using allegations of corruption to destroy reputations. Mr Temer's statement came just hours before a Supreme Court justice authorised a new corruption investigation into the president. The president, like dozens of other Brazilian politicians, is already implicated in Operation Car Wash. [...]