Dec 12 (Reuters) – A Bolivian judge on Friday said ex-President Luis Arce will be held in pre-trial detention for five months following his detention earlier this week as he is investigated for alleged embezzlement. Arce, who left office last month, will be held in a prison in the capital La Paz and will likely …
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By Fernando Cardoso, Lisandra Paraguassu and Daphne Psaledakis BRASILIA/WASHINGTON, Dec 12 (Reuters) – The United States has removed sanctions against the Brazilian Supreme Court judge targeted for overseeing a criminal case against an ally of President Donald Trump, the Treasury Department said on Friday. The reversal in less than five months, coming after the U.S. …
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Dec 12 (Reuters) – Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado on Friday promised political change after slipping out of the country in secret to collect the Nobel Peace Prize, as the shock waves intensified from the Trump administration’s seizure of an oil tanker earlier this week. That escalation came on the heels of a large-scale …
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By Phil Stewart MIAMI, Dec 12 (Reuters) – The admiral in charge of U.S. military forces in Latin America retired two years early on Friday, amid rising tensions with Venezuela that include Wednesday’s seizure of an oil tanker and more than 20 deadly strikes on suspected drug-smuggling boats. Three U.S. officials and two people familiar …
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By Jonathan Saul, Marianna Parraga and Arathy Somasekhar HOUSTON, Dec 12 (Reuters) – The oil supertanker Skipper that was seized by the U.S. near Venezuela this week as part of an increased pressure strategy against President Nicolas Maduro, is heading to Houston, two sources said on Friday. The Very Large Crude Carrier is carrying about …
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WASHINGTON, Dec 12 (Reuters) – A U.S. special operations team in the Indian Ocean raided a ship headed to Iran from China last month and seized military-related articles, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, citing U.S. officials. The cargo consisted of components potentially useful for Iran’s conventional weapons, one official said, adding the shipment …
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By Olivia Le Poidevin GENEVA, Dec 12 (Reuters) – Hundreds of thousands of displaced Gazans face flooding of their tents and shelters by heavy rains, and materials for shelters and sandbags are not being allowed to enter the enclave, the U.N. International Organization for Migration said on Friday. Torrential rain swept across the Gaza Strip …
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By Luis Jaime Acosta BOGOTA, Dec 12 (Reuters) – The top leaders of Colombia’s Clan del Golfo crime gang, the country’s largest illegal armed group, would definitely serve prison time under a possible deal with the government, the government’s chief negotiator said on Friday, adding that officials are seeking to make progress at talks “irreversible” …
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RIO DE JANEIRO, Dec 12 (Reuters) – Brazil’s federal police arrested former Peruvian Foreign Affairs Minister Augusto Blacker Miller in Rio de Janeiro on Thursday, two sources told Reuters on Friday. Miller, who served in President Alberto Fujimori’s administration in the 1990s, had been on the run since an Albanian court sentenced him in a fraud …
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By Dave Sherwood and Marianna Parraga HAVANA/HOUSTON, Dec 12 (Reuters) – A U.S. move this week to seize an oil tanker out of Venezuela is poised to make a bad situation worse for a crisis-stricken Cuba already struggling to source enough oil to power its ailing economy and electrical grid. The Communist-run nation, a nearby …
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