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23 August, 2024
Suriname’s President Desi Bouterse attends a meeting at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing in November 2019. Photo: AFP
Obituaries

Suriname ex-dictator and fugitive Desi Bouterse dead at 79

The former leader was convicted of executing political opponents but refused to turn himself in and lived out his life in hiding.

Donald Trump

‘It’s hard to tell’: is Trump serious about Greenland, Panama Canal?

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Brazil

Small plane crashes in Brazil tourist city, killing at least 10

Brazil

Death toll in Brazil bus crash rises to 41

The bus was hit by a large block of granite that apparently fell from a truck travelling in the opposite direction.

A crane works on the site of a crash in Teofilo Otoni, Minas Gerais state in Brazil. Photo: AFP/Minas Gerais Fire Department
Donald Trump

Letters | Why Trump 2.0 shows dangerous signs of failing

Readers discuss the trouble with leaders who value loyalty over ability, the problem facing successful Asian countries, and economic fate.

Brazil

Brazil’s Lula discharged from hospital after emergency head surgery

President Lula wore a fedora-style hat that covered signs of operations related to a fall he took at his home.

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Donald Trump

Argentina’s Milei says he expects to attend Trump’s inauguration

China’s Xi Jinping and other world leaders have been invited, but no foreign head of state has attended such an event in at least a century.

Argentine President Javier Milei waves during a gala at Mar-A-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, in November. Photo: Reuters
Brazil

Latest operation on Brazil’s Lula a ‘success’, doctor says

The ‘low risk’ procedure is meant to minimise the risk of future bleeding under the president’s skull after he hurt his head in a fall.

Brazil

Brazil’s Lula alert, ‘progressed well’ since emergency brain surgery

Doctors successfully drained a bleed on the president’s brain, related to a fall in October.

War and conflict

Gang leader’s witchcraft accusations sparked Haiti massacre that left 184 dead

Rights group says gang leader ordered massacre with machetes and knives after his child became sick.

People take cover from gunfire during clashes between police and gangs in the Delmas neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on December 2. Photo: AP
Hong Kong economy

Opinion | Can Hong Kong reclaim its role as Asia’s gateway to the Americas?

As China expands trade and investment in Latin America, a proactive Hong Kong should seize the opportunity to connect all parties involved.

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Ursula Desilu Leon Chempen (left), Peru’s foreign trade and tourism minister, and Algernon Yau Ying-wah (right), Hong Kong’s commerce and economic development secretary, sign a free-trade agreement in Lima, Peru, on November 16. Photo: Handout
US-Cuba relations

Cuba suffers third nationwide blackout in 2 months

Cuba’s power grid collapses again, leaving the entire island in the dark.

Peru

Peru rocked by president’s nose job controversy

Peruvian president faces calls for removal after she disappeared from public view for nose surgery without delegating her powers.

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Mexico

Mexico raids stores selling counterfeit Chinese goods, vows national crackdown

The operation comes soon after Trump’s tariff threat, and amid concerns that Chinese goods are flowing through Mexico to flood the US market.

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Members of the Mexican Navy keep watch outside the Mexico Mart shopping centre in Mexico City during an operation to seize Chinese counterfeit goods on Friday. Photo: Reuters
China trade

China extends reach into Latin America as crane exports pick up

China is expanding its maritime footprint in Latin America, with more exports of cranes amid rising tensions with the US.

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The Port of Chanca. Photo: EPA-EFE
Brazil

Brazil’s Bolsonaro ‘actively’ took part in coup plot against Lula, police say

The ex-president was also ‘fully aware’ of an alleged plan by elite soldiers to assassinate his successor, the 884-page report adds.

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Fame and celebrity

Disturbing new details emerge in Liam Payne death investigation

New footage reveals Liam Payne’s struggle with hotel staff before his fatal fall from a Buenos Aires balcony last month.

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Diplomacy

Xi’s South American tour: China takes centre stage as US heads for the wings

Chinese President Xi Jinping’s nine-day trip to Peru and Brazil shows Beijing’s growing profile while US awaits the coming of Trump 2.0.

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Illustration: Henry Wong

Left-wing candidate Yamandu Orsi wins Uruguay presidential election

South American nation joins others around the world in rebuking the incumbent party in a year of landmark elections.

China

Uruguay’s once-dull election has become a dead heat in presidential run-off

Conservative governing party and left-leaning coalition locked in close run-off after failing to win outright majority in last month’s vote.

Mexico

Mexico ditches Chinese products amid fears of exclusion from US-Canada trade pact

Mexican officials fear their country could be left out of the USMCA over alleged trade in Chinese steel and automotive products.

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Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum during a press conference at the National Palace in Mexico City, Mexico, on Friday. Photo: EPA-EFE
China trade

Amid US tariff threats, can port in Peru open up new markets for China?

US$3.5 billion Chancay port will initially be able to handle 1 million containers a year.

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Illustration: Henry Wong
Brazil

Brazil police indict Bolsonaro and aides over alleged 2022 coup attempt

Ex-president Bolsonaro accused of plot to overthrow election result, but he rejects the accusations against him.

Nicaragua’s Ortega proposes making him and wife ‘co-presidents’

Vice-President Rosario Murillo has become the face of the government as her husband rarely makes public appearances.

Venezuela

US calls Venezuela opposition’s Gonzalez ‘president-elect’

The Biden administration’s use of the term prompted a furious reaction from Caracas.

Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia voting in Caracas earlier this year. Photo: AFP
Crime

Bodies burned in streets after Haiti police, civilians kill 28 suspected gang members

Grisly scenes in Haiti’s capital as residents stand with police in a battle to repel the latest gang attack.

Residents question a person who is not from the neighbourhood after an attempted overnight attack by gangs. Photo: Reuters
Crime

Police arrest ex-Bolsonaro aide, 4 others, in alleged plot to kill Brazil’s Lula

The alleged plot involved killing Lula and his vice-president, and installing an “Institutional Crisis Management Office” to manage the coup’s aftermath.

Social media

Brazil’s first lady insults Elon Musk at G20 social event

The swear word incident adds a new twist to Brazil’s already strained relationship with the tech billionaire right before the G20.

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