Reuters witnesses reported the raging flames that ravaged a four-tank segment of the Matanzas super tanker port had died down and the towering plumes of thick black smoke streaming from the area were diminished and now mostly gray. Matanzas is Cuba’s largest port for receiving crude oil and fuel imports. Cuban heavy crude, as well […]
Peltier, who grew up in Wiikwemkoong First Nation on Ontario’s Manitoulin Island, first became aware of the need for water advocacy at just eight years old. When visiting a neighboring indigenous community, she discovered that they were unable to drink their tap water due to pollution. That kickstarted her career as an activist. “I believe […]
The mysterious hole of 36.5 meters (120 feet) in diameter that emerged in late July has provoked the mobilization of local authorities and led the mining regulator Sernageomin to suspend operations of a nearby mine owned by Canada‘s Lundin in the northern district of Candelaria. “We are going to go all the way with consequences, […]
Rio police first took Hahn into custody on Saturday after his husband, Walter Henri Maximilien Biot, 52, was found dead in an apartment in the Ipanema neighborhood, police said. Video showed Hahn being escorted by Brazilian police outside a police station in Rio on Sunday. Brazilian judge Rafael de Almeida Rezende cited alleged attempts to […]
“Can you see where it came from?” the SWAT members breathlessly asked each other inside the armored vehicle. It provides only a tiny sliver of a window onto the streets outside, which at one moment appear deserted, the next teeming with civilians trying to flee to safety. In the past 72 hours, police have killed […]
The incident was reported Wednesday afternoon, when the miners encountered an abandoned tunnel with water that flooded the mine, authorities said. Rescuers managed to extract five people from the mine on Wednesday, and are now working to pump water out of the flooded area, according to National Coordinator of Civil Protection, Laura Velazquez, who is […]
Last week, Eduardo Bim, president of environmental agency IBAMA, authorized Brazil’s federal government to begin repaving highway BR-319 between the cities of Manaus, in Amazonas state, and Porto Velho, in neighboring Rondonia, a route which cuts through the most pristine area of the country’s Amazon rainforest. The decision was immediately criticized by environmental groups who […]
Authorities say that Zamora, who is the director of the newspaper El Periódico, is suspected of involvement in a money laundering case. But his son José Carlos Zamora told CNN that he believed the arrest was an act of retaliation, and an attempt at censorship due to the newspaper’s criticism of President Alejandro Giammattei’s government. […]
The sentence was imposed by Judge Ulisa Tapia Silva at a court in the capital, Managua. He was sentenced to five years in jail for conspiracy to undermine national integrity and a further five years for spreading false news, as well as a fine equivalent to about $1,500, the group said. CENIDH, where Suazo served […]
Viktor Bout, a former Soviet military officer, is currently serving a 25-year prison sentence in the United States on charges of conspiring to kill Americans, acquire and export anti-aircraft missiles, and provide material support to a terrorist organization. Bout has maintained he is innocent. The Kremlin has long called for Bout’s release, slamming his sentencing […]
