More than 30 inmates have been killed in Brazil’s second macabre prison riot this week as warring jail-based drug gangs battle for control over the Amazon’s lucrative cocaine smuggling routes.
Protests and looting continue in response to the government’s decision to raise fuel prices by as much as 20%. A police officer and a pedestrian were killed in separate incidents.
The construction giant, which agreed to pay as much as $4.5 billion to settle international bribery charges, is banned from bidding on public works projects in a growing number of countries.
President Nicolás Maduro shuffled his cabinet amid one of the world’s deepest recessions, appointing a state governor to the vice presidency and naming his sixth new economy minister in three years.
Brazil received a record 6.6 million foreign tourists in 2016, boosted by visitors attending the Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games, according to figures released by the country´s Tourism Ministry.
Late Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez gave Odebrecht SA of Brazil $11 billion in contracts to build megaprojects, but those dreams melted and the company is now mired in scandal.
More than 130 escaped prisoners in Brazil were on the run Tuesday after breaking out during a bloody prison riot that left 60 inmates dead and sparked criticism of chronic overcrowding in the country’s jails.
A fight between rival drug gangs sparked a prison riot that left about 60 inmates dead in the Brazilian city of Manaus, according to local authorities.
Mexicans protested against sharp increases in gasoline and diesel prices at the start of the year, blocking roads, gas stations and fuel facilities in various parts of the country.
Brazil posted its biggest trade surplus ever in 2016 as imports plunged amid the country’s worst economic recession on record. The country had a surplus of $4.4 billion in December, bringing the total for the year to $47.7 billion, the trade ministry said.
Venezuela’s government has freed a former presidential candidate and several student activists who were jailed during 2014 antigovernment protests.
Mexico’s minimum wage will rise almost 10% on Sunday, in a jolt to the system meant to stoke the poorest workers’ buying power, which has been eroded by recessions and past bouts of high inflation.
Venezuelans have until Jan. 20 to stop using the notes, the second time President Nicolás Maduro has delayed plans to withdraw the nation’s most widely used bank note.
An Argentine appeals court on Thursday reopened an investigation into allegations that former President Cristina Kirchner and other officials plotted with Iran to cover up that nation’s alleged role in a 1994 bombing of a Jewish center.
Brazilian President Michel Temer will veto a bill that would have offered relief to indebted states, a spokesman for his chief of staff said.
Brazilian President Michel Temer plans to veto a bill that would have offered relief to indebted states because lawmakers removed some austerity measures that the central government wanted to impose.
A judge indicted ex-President Cristina Kirchner on corruption charges involving public works and ordered millions of dollars of her assets to be frozen.
The maximum retail price of regular gasoline in Mexico will rise on average 14% as of Jan. 1, a widely expected move intended to incorporate higher oil prices and a weaker peso into the cost as Mexico moves to market-set prices for the fuel in 2017.
As an ever-spreading sweep of the U.S. is giving up the fight against pot, Mexicans are debating the effectiveness of the government’s protracted battle against drug cartels.