America Venezuela As part of the 10th anniversary of former leader Hugo Chavez’s death, who boosted cooperation with Russian oil, government officials met with their Russian counterparts to boost crude oil production and seek new business opportunities
America Canada Two First Nations have reached an agreement with Ontario to build a road to potential mining sites in the Ring of Fire area, about 500 km north of Thunder Bay, thought to be rich in critical minerals for electric vehicle batteries
America Dominican Republic The damage caused by the road of the construction site of the wall at the border with Haiti will be unrecoverable, said the Natural Sciences Commission: the disrespect of environmental regulations puts at risk crucial wetland area Laguna Saladillo
America Suriname The Surinamese Red Cross has honoured local entrepreneur Hemradj Dassasingh for having donated blood for the 100th time
America Belize During the country’s celebration of Women’s Month, the government announced that it will officially eliminate the General Sales Tax on all women’s sanitary products, now being classified as part of the basic supplies of a household
America Bolivia The government is currently working on a plan to fully industrialise lithium by the end of this year, by carefully studying and selecting the companies that will be extracting and processing the good for its commercialisation in the next years
America Ecuador President Guillermo Lasso and his Costa Rican counterpart, Rodrigo Chaves, have signed a historic free trade agreement between both countries, which includes free trade for 97% of Ecuadorian products and over 90% of Costa Rican products
America Paraguay 7.000 farmers marched to Asuncion City to denounce President Mario Abdo Benítez's alleged failure to comply with the agreements reached in March 2022, where the state promised to support family farming and resolve the producers' debts
America Trinidad and Tobago As debate over human trafficking and prostitution in Trinidad and Tobago continues, an official list of convicted sex offenders has been made public for the first time through an online registry, the Trinidad and Tobago Public Sex Offenders Website
America Colombia A group of 79 police officers and oilfield workers were taken hostage by residents blocking an oil exploration, and have now been freed in exchange of government negotiations to suspend the operation
America Mexico Ovidio Guzmán, a son of the drug lord Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, currently suspected of leading the powerful Sinaloa drug cartel which his father founded, is the object of a formal extradition request by the USA
America Uruguay Thanks to a growing economy and improving public finances, President Luis Lacalle Pou is currently working on a bill to increase tax reductions on 75% of tax payers and have around 63.000 low-income workers not pay taxes at all
America Argentina The government has once again asked the UK to restart negotiations at the UN over the sovereignty of the British-run Falkland Islands, as the country has yet again claimed ownership over such land