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By Reuters Staff (Recasts with new details) TEGUCIGALPA, July 7 (Reuters) - A major power outage in Central America cut electricity to some 15 million residents on Wednesday, with the worst impact felt in Honduras and Nicaragua, according to regional power operator EOR, as efforts to get the lights back on were ramped up. The two most-affected countries saw power for nearly all residents “practically go down to zero volts,” EOR communications head Evelyn Flores told Reuters. The grid operat...

By Nelson Renteria, Sofia Menchu and Ted Hesson SAN SALVADOR, July 1 (Reuters) - Central American presidential aides, top judges and former presidents were put on a U.S. State Department list on Thursday that names individuals the U.S. government accuses of corruption, obstructing justice, or undermining democracy. The so-called Engel List was created under a law sponsored by then-U.S. Representative Eliot Engel and enacted by Congress in December that required the State Department to assemble ...

Central American officials blacklisted by U.S. as part of corruption crackdown By Nelson Renteria, Sofia Menchu and Ted Hesson Reuters SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) -Central American presidential aides, top judges and former presidents were put on a U.S. State Department list on Thursday that names individuals the U.S. government accuses of corruption, obstructing justice, or undermining democracy. The so-called Engel List was created under a law sponsored by then-U.S. Representative Eliot Engel and e...

Sofia Menchu 2 minute read GUATEMALA CITY, June 30 (Reuters) - Guatemalan Health Minister Amelia Flores clarified on Wednesday she was not yet requesting a refund from Russia after delayed deliveries of the Sputnik V vaccine against COVID-19 and that both countries were still negotiating. Flores had said a day earlier that the country was requesting a refund after paying some $80 million in April for 8 million doses of the vaccine. It has received just 150,000 of them. read more "There is a l...

UPDATE 1-Guatemala not yet seeking refund from Russia over vaccine delays: minister Reuters 11 hrs ago By Sofia Menchu GUATEMALA CITY, June 30 (Reuters) - Guatemalan Health Minister Amelia Flores clarified on Wednesday she was not yet requesting a refund from Russia after delayed deliveries of the Sputnik V vaccine against COVID-19 and that both countries were still negotiating. Flores had said a day earlier that the country was requesting a refund after paying some $80 million in April for 8...

A judge in Guatemala on Wednesday charged six ex-military members for their alleged participation in the death and forced disappearance of at least 183 civilians during Guatemala's civil war in the 1980s. Judge Miguel Galvez said there was sufficient evidence to bring the retired soldiers to trial for the 1983-1985 crimes, part of a conflict between leftists and the government from 1960-1996 that killed 200,000 people. Another six people arrested on suspicion of the crimes were not yet ch...

Guatemalan judge linked to graft case ascends to top court

USA-IMMIGRATION/HARRIS-GUATEMALA (EXCLUSIVE, PIX, TV):EXCLUSIVE-Guatemalan president says graft fighter biased, ahead of Harris visit

GUATEMALA CITY — Guatemala’s President Alejandro Giammattei criticized the country’s best-known graft prosecutor for what he said was a left-wing…

Guatemala Congress due to swear in judge linked to graft case This content was published on June 1, 2021 - 01:28 June 1, 2021 - 01:28 GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - Guatemalas Congress on Monday will swear in a judge linked to a judicial corruption probe to serve on the countrys top court, a few days ahead of a visit by U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris, whose government has urged the country to fight graft. Incoming Constitutional Court justice Nester Vasquez is due to take the oath of office afte...