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Nicaragua Charges Local Owner of Miss Universe Franchise With Treason, Organized Crime
2Dec By adminNo Comments
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Nicaragua Charges Local Owner of Miss Universe Franchise With Treason, Organized Crime

MEXICO CITY—Nicaragua’s government charged the owner of the local Miss Universe franchise with treason, organized crime and inciting hatred as part of a plot to overthrow President Daniel Ortega’s regime two weeks after the country’s first victory in the pageant.Nicaraguan police accused the contest’s local organizer, Karen Celebertti, a past beauty queen and owner of a modeling agency, her husband and son of rigging contests so that antigovernment winners would emerge at the pageants.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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The World’s Key Canal Is Clogged Up. Winter Fuel Prices Could Get Wacky.
1Dec By adminNo Comments
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The World’s Key Canal Is Clogged Up. Winter Fuel Prices Could Get Wacky.

Climate change may be making winters more unpredictable. It could make your winter heating bills more unpredictable too, particularly if you live at the end of long and vulnerable fuel supply chains.The price of liquefied petroleum gas, a significant U.S. export, has rocketed higher recently in Asia, a remarkable development given that crude oil prices have been falling. Prices for Brent crude, the main global benchmark, are down about $9 a barrel, or about 10%, since mid-September. But Asian propane LPG prices are lower only by 3%, data from Argus Media shows, trading around $665 per metric ton in late November.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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U.S. to Restrict Visas of Charter Operators Flying Migrants to Nicaragua
22Nov By adminNo Comments
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U.S. to Restrict Visas of Charter Operators Flying Migrants to Nicaragua

The U.S. government said Tuesday it would impose visa restrictions on individuals running charter flights into Nicaragua, flooding the Central American country with tens of thousands of U.S.-bound migrants, mostly from Haiti, Cuba and Africa.The authoritarian government of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, which has strained ties with the U.S., has in recent months allowed several little-known charter airlines and travel agencies to operate flights from Haiti, Cuba and other Caribbean airports to Nicaragua, according to Haitian and Nicaraguan civil aviation data.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Panama Canal to Halve Daily Sailings This Winter Due to Drought
1Nov By adminNo Comments
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Panama Canal to Halve Daily Sailings This Winter Due to Drought

Panama Canal officials will cut available slots for ship transits by half this winter as extreme drought leaves the man-made waterway lacking enough water.  The changes come after Panama Canal experienced its driest October on record, continuing a monthslong spell of warmer temperatures and low rainfall. Officials have already restricted traffic on the waterway, which handles around 7% of global seaborne trade.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Basic Materials Roundup: Market Talk
31Oct By adminNo Comments
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Basic Materials Roundup: Market Talk

Updated Oct. 31, 2023 5:42 pm ETThe latest Market Talks covering Basic Materials. Published exclusively on Dow Jones Newswires at 4:20 ET, 12:20 ET and 16:50 ET.1224 ET – First Quantum Minerals shares continued their decline on Tuesday as uncertainty over the future of its big Cobre Panama copper mine remains. Shares were down nearly 16% at C$16.88. First Quantum says it noted the Panamanian government’s intention to hold a popular consultation in December over Law 406 which approved the company’s revised contract for Cobre Panama. “First Quantum has contacted the government in order to understand the details in respect of the popular consultation,” it said. On Monday, analysts at National Bank of Canada lowered their rating on First Quantum’s stock to sector perform from outperform and c...
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“La Isla” Shows the Absences Left by El Salvador’s Mass Arrests
27Sep By adminNo Comments
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“La Isla” Shows the Absences Left by El Salvador’s Mass Arrests

When the government of El Salvador declared a “state of exception” in March of last year, after a sudden spike in gang killings, it was supposed to be temporary. Soldiers and police officers could arrest anyone they considered suspicious. No one was entitled to a legal defense. Each month, the country’s Assembly would have to vote to extend this state of affairs. But the party in power, called Nuevas Ideas, held a super-majority. Their fealty to the President, Nayib Bukele, was total, as was his commitment to an indefinite campaign of law and order based on mass arrests.The state of exception has now been renewed eighteen times. As one journalist put it to me, el régimen de excepción has become la normalidad excepcional, the exceptional norm. In the past year and a half, the government ha...
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