Odebrecht mess leaves devastation trail from Andes to Caribbean
By David Biller and John Quigley From Bloomberg In Peru, Colombia, Dominican Republic politicians in trouble Spreading scandal so big that Peru’s GDP has been affected Trucks ascended to Braulio Pucllo’s pasture high in the Andes mountains five months ago…
InselAir: UK Foreign Office warns against major Caribbean airline
By Rosie Giorgi From Easy Voyage TRAVEL WARNING ISSUED FOR INSELAIR The Foreign Office has issued a travel warning after safety concerns were raised about InselAir, a major Caribbean airline. The Curacao-based airline flies to 26 destinations across Brazil, the…
Traffic study ranks Los Angeles as world’s most clogged city
From Reflector When it comes to getting stuck in traffic on the way to and from work, Los Angeles leads the world DETROIT (AP) — When it comes to getting stuck in traffic on the way to and from work,…
Destination of the week
Canada Named Best Travel Destination In 2017 By Lonely Planet By Alexandra Talty From Forbes It seems that every election season American interest in Canada spikes and this year is no different. But our northern neighbor can offer more than…
Trinidad and Tobago among Latin America and Caribbean countries with improving education systems
From Antigua Observer WASHINGTON, Dec 6, CMC – A new study has found that while students throughout Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) continue to be among the lowest achievers on international learning assessments, countries like Peru, Colombia, Uruguay, and…
Pilot reported he was out of fuel moments before airplane carrying Brazilian soccer team crashed, killing 71
By Fernando Vergara and Joshua Goodman, Associated Press From Business Insider MEDELLIN, Colombia (AP) — The pilot of the chartered plane carrying a Brazilian soccer team told air traffic controllers he had run out of fuel before crashing into the…
Brazil Chapecoense football team in Colombia plane crash
From BBC A plane carrying 81 people, including a top Brazilian football team, has crashed on its approach to the city of Medellin in Colombia. Colombia’s civil aviation body says only six people survived the crash, that occurred on a…
Zika’s million-dollar question: Where are the birth defects?
By Will Carless From PRI For experts studying the mosquito-borne virus Zika, the data just got even more confusing. A curious conclusion is emerging: While the virus has spread like wildfire across the Americas, outside Brazil, an epidemic of birth…
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Mosquitos to be infected with bacteria in fight against Zika virus
By Sarah Boseley Health From The Guardian UK Wolbachia bacteria, which stops mosquitos transmitting virus, to be spread among insects in areas of Brazil and Colombia Mosquitoes in two large areas of Brazil and Colombia are to be infected with…
Cocaine prices in the US have barely moved in decades — here’s how cartels distort the market
By Christopher Woody From Business Insider Efforts to staunch the flow of cocaine in recent years have focused on the source — ripping coca plants out of the ground or dousing them with herbicide. And attacking cocaine production at the…
