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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 operator said the outage began at 1 p.m. (1900 GMT) but the cause and specific origin of the massive loss ...

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 within 180 days a list of high profile individuals it regarded as corrupt in the Northern Triangle c...

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 enacted by Congress in December that required the State Department to assemble within 180 days a list...

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 letter seeking the re-negotiation of the contract, but that does not imply the return of the money," ...

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 million doses of the vaccine. It has received just 150,000 of them. "There is a letter seeking the ...