Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador MEXICO CITY, Oct 21 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Mexico’s president, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, said his US counterpart Donald Trump called him to express his “solidarity” following an attempt to arrest a drug kingpin’s son that prompted a wave of violence in the northwestern city of…

RIO DE JANEIRO, Oct 21 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The death toll from an apartment building collapse in northeast Brazil reached nine after the body of the last missing person was found in the rubble. Seven people were pulled alive from the debris of the seven-storyresidential building in an upscale neighborhood of…

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Oct 21 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Thousands of people demonstrated in Port-au-Prince, demanding that Haiti’s President Jovenel Moise step down. “Jovenel is incapable and incompetent, he must pack his bags because Haitimust live,” said one of the protesters, Jean Ronald. “It is not normal to live in such an unequal country,”…

LA PAZ, Oct 21 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Evo Morales, seeking a controversialfourth term, led Bolivia’s presidential election race Sunday but faces ahistoric second round run-off against opposition rival Carlos Mesa, partialresults announced by electoral authorities showed. Morales had 45 percent of the vote to Mesa’s 38 percent, the SupremeElectoral Tribunal announced,…

SANTIAGO, Oct 21 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Five people died Sunday when a garment factory was torched by looters near Chile’s capital Santiago, bringing the death toll in a wave of unrest to seven as authorities expanded a state of emergency. Police and the military fired tear gas and used water cannon…

SANTIAGO, Oct 21 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Chilean president Sebastian Pinera announced he would reverse public transport fare hikes which had caused widespread protests in the country.Pinera said in a national address broadcast from the presidential palace in Santiago that he had listened “with humility” to “the voice of my compatriots” and…