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Brazil: Senate debates Dilma Rousseff's impeachment
Edit Al Jazeera 11 May 2016
Brazil's senators have begun debating whether to put President Dilma Rousseff on trial over allegations she illegally manipulated the budget to hide a growing fiscal deficit ... A two-thirds majority in the upper house is what is required to remove her from office permanently. Al Jazeera's Lucia Newman, reporting from Brasilia, said that Rousseff was expected to lose by an overwhelming majority ... About 11 million people are out of work ... ....
Obama calls on US Congress to end Cuban trade embargo
Edit Al Jazeera 22 Mar 2016
President Barack Obama called on US Congress to lift the decades-old trade embargo on Cuba, saying the United States must admit the economic sanctions imposed in 1962 were a failure and it is time to move on ... "We have to have courage to acknowledge that it was not working ... Al Jazeera's Lucia Newman, reporting from Havana, said Cuban citizens were "very moved" by Obama's speech ... Source ... ....
Barack Obama: 'Change going to happen' in Cuba
Edit Al Jazeera 21 Mar 2016
Obama is set to meet Cuban dissidents on Tuesday, a move Al Jazeera's Lucia Newman said would have been considered "intolerable" by the government in the past. "The Cuban government is clearly not happy about it and to make the point, as the president's plane was coming here, some 50 dissidents were actually arrested," reported Newman from Havana....
Obama visits Cuba, hails 'historic opportunity'
Edit Al Jazeera 21 Mar 2016
Excitement in Havana. Al Jazeera's Lucia Newman, reporting from Havana, said the visit had excited Cubans, many hopeful of what the newly re-established ties could bring ... READ MORE. Cuba's combat rappers fight for the country's youth. Obama is set to meet Cuban dissidents during his visit, a move our correspondent Newman said would have been considered "intolerable" by the government in the past ... Cold War rivalry ... Source. Al Jazeera. ....
Obama hails 'historic opportunity' to engage with Cuba
Edit Al Jazeera 21 Mar 2016
Excitement in Havana. Al Jazeera's Lucia Newman, reporting from Havana, said the visit had excited Cubans, many hopeful of what the newly re-established ties could bring ... READ MORE. Cuba's combat rappers fight for the country's youth. Obama is set to meet Cuban dissidents during his visit, a move our correspondent Newman said would have been considered "intolerable" by the government in the past ... Cold War rivalry ... Source. Al Jazeera. ....
Rio Olympics 'to go ahead' despite Zika virus outbreak
Edit Al Jazeera 02 Feb 2016
The Olympics in Rio de Janeiro will not be cancelled and the mosquito-borne virus will not affect the Games, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has said ... "The risk, which I would say is serious, is for pregnant women ... Al Jazeera's Lucia Newman, reporting from Rio de Janeiro, said the increased scientific and financial help from the international community cannot come fast enough ... READ MORE. The threat of Zika - Q&A; ... Source ... ....
Mosquito-borne Zika virus 'spreading explosively'
Edit Al Jazeera 29 Jan 2016
The syndrome can cause temporary paralysis. WHO ... "All of the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean are trying to coordinate so that they take exactly the same measures to diminish not only the breeding grounds of this mosquito which also carries dengue and chikungunya, but also to prevent it from spreading from one country to another," Al Jazeera's Lucia Newman reported from Santiago, the capital of Chile ... Source ... ....
Venezuela heads to polls in crunch legislative election
Edit Al Jazeera 06 Dec 2015
People in Venezuela are voting in key parliamentary elections, with the country's economic troubles putting heavy pressure on the socialist government led by President Nicolas Maduro. Voters in working-class parts of the capital Caracas rose early on Sunday morning to the sound of government sponsored music and fireworks ... "Things could get violent.". Interactive ... Read more ... Reporting from Caracas, Al Jazeera's Lucia Newman said ... Source ... ....
Is the world addicted to debt?
Edit Al Jazeera 11 Oct 2015
Debt was the trigger for the financial crisis in 2008, and what followed - from the collapse of Lehman Brothers to the Greek debt crisis - suggested that the world would no longer fall foul of debt. But debt continues to pile up around the world ... Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari is trying to tackle widespread corruption in the country's oil industry ... Lucia Newman reports from Chile's capital, Santiago. Source. Al Jazeera. ....
Horse-riding Mexican governor vows to go tough on crime
Edit Al Jazeera 05 Oct 2015
Mexico's first ever independent governor has been sworn in in the northern border state of Nuevo Leon ... Al Jazeera's Lucia Newman reports from Nuevo Leon ... ....
Colombia leader and FARC declare breakthrough in talks
Edit Al Jazeera 24 Sep 2015
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos and FARC commanders have announced an important breakthrough in peace talks that sets the stage to end Latin America's longest-running armed conflict within the next six months ... Al Jazeera's Lucia Newman, reporting from the Cuban capital, said Santos had announced March 23, 2016 as the date for a peace deal to be signed and that fighters would then have 60 days to lay down their arms ... Source. AP. ....
Visiting Cuba Pope Francis backs reconciliation with US
Edit Al Jazeera 20 Sep 2015
Pope Francis has called on the US and Cuba to continue their reconciliation after he touched down in Havana - the first stop in a two-nation visit that will also take him to the US ... Al Jazeera's Latin America Editor Lucia Newman, reporting from Havana, quoted Vatican spokesman Father Federico Lombardi as saying that a meeting between Francis and Cuban dissidents has not been ruled out ... RELATED ... Source. Al Jazeera and agencies. ....
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