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  • The Bob Menendez Scandal Has Gotten So Weird

  • The scandal surrounding New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez has evolved from a sex scandal to a donor scandal to a weird mystery about who set him up, with the FBI talking to sugar baron brothers and an ex-CIA operative. Last fall, the Daily Caller showed videos of women who said Menendez had paid them for sex in the Dominican Republic while partying with a wealthy Florida eye doctor, Salomon Melgen. The women later said they were paid to make the claims. ...
  • Alleged Dominican head of New York ATM thefts was shot dead

  • A woman looks at a map showing where eight members belonging to a New York-based cell of a global cyber criminal organization withdrew money from ATM machines, during a news conference in New YorkBy Manuel Jimenez SANTO DOMINGO (Reuters) - An alleged leader of the New York arm of a global cyber crime ring, which stole $45 million from two Middle Eastern banks, was shot dead during an attempted robbery in the Dominican Republic last month, Dominican police said on Friday. Alberto Lajud-Pena, 23, was killed on April 27 in a house in the city of San Francisco de Macoris about 100 miles northeast of the capital, Santo Domingo, according to police. ...



  • Huge cyber bank theft spans 27 countries

  • Lynch, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, speaks at a news conference in New YorkBy Jessica Dye, Joseph Ax and Jim Finkle NEW YORK/BOSTON (Reuters) - In one of the biggest ever bank heists, a global cyber crime ring stole $45 million from two Middle Eastern banks by hacking into credit card processing firms and withdrawing money from ATMs in 27 countries, U.S. prosecutors said on Thursday. The U.S. Justice Department accused eight men of allegedly forming the New York-based cell of the organization, and said seven of them have been arrested. The eighth, allegedly a leader of the cell, was reported to have been murdered in the Dominican Republic on April 27. ...



  • More Haitians using Puerto Rico as migrant route

  • In this May 4, 2013 photo, workers build a sailboat on the beach of Leogane, Haiti. The 30-foot-long boats are purchased by smugglers for around $12,000 and then taken to northern Haiti to find passengers. There are no official statistics on how many Haitians have successfully made their way illegally to Puerto Rico, or how many have traveled on to the U.S. mainland. But the trend worries officials in the U.S. and the Dominican Republic, with both countries reporting that arrests of Puerto Rico-bound Haitians have soared. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Haitians have fled their troubled country for years, attempting to reach the U.S. or other Caribbean islands by heading north across the open sea or trekking across the island of Hispaniola to scratch out a living in the Dominican Republic.



  • Cuba launches challenge to Australian tobacco laws at WTO

  • GENEVA (Reuters) - Cuba has launched a legal challenge to Australia's tobacco packaging laws at the World Trade Organization, the Geneva-based trade body said in a statement on Monday. Cuba has never before launched WTO litigation. Its challenge follows similar complaints about Australia's tough tobacco packaging rules by Ukraine, Honduras and Dominican Republic. By taking the first step in a dispute, Cuba has triggered a 60-day window for Australia to try to resolve the problem in talks with Cuba. After that Cuba could ask the WTO to appoint a panel of adjudicators to judge its complaint. ...
  • Haitian businessman pleads not guilty in Miami to U.S. drug charges

  • MIAMI (Reuters) - A Haitian businessman pleaded not guilty to drug trafficking charges in federal court in Miami on Monday, days after he was arrested in a luxury hotel in the Dominican Republic. U.S. law enforcement officials took Rodolphe Jaar into custody on Saturday after he was extradited to the United States, said Mia Ro, a spokeswoman for the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). ...
  • Barrick suffering big setbacks in Latin America

  • FILE - In this March 22, 2006 file photo, a woman plays a Kultrum, a traditional Mapuche instrument, during a demonstration on World Water Day by people holding a sign that reads in Spanish ""Let us take care the water, No to Pascua Lama" rejecting a gold mining project they claim will affect water supply to a fertile valley in northern Chile, outside the presidential palace La Moneda in Santiago, Chile. A Chilean court halted on April 10, 2013 the construction of Barrick Gold Corp.’s $8 billion, border-straddling mine on the high-altitude spine of the Andes. Barrick also faces growing environmental resistance in Argentina, which shares the Pascua-Lama project, and the Dominican Republic’s government is insisting on rewriting the royalties contract for its $4 billion Pueblo Viejo mine. (AP Photo/Santiago Llanquin, File)SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — A Chilean court's halt to construction of Barrick Gold Corp.'s $8 billion, border-straddling mine on the high spine of the Andes is only the latest setback in Latin America for the world's largest gold miner.



  • In Venezuela election, food is a voting issue

  • In this April 6, 2013 photo, a customer points to fresh chicken at a food market in Caracas, Venezuela. Private food makers, large and small, often sell at a loss because of hundreds of price controls that the government imposed in a losing fight against runaway inflation. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelans complain that what goes into their Sunday dinner plate comes from abroad: Steak, from Brazil; plantains, the Dominican Republic; rice, South Africa; Parmesan cheese, Uruguay; oats, Chile. Even coffee, in a country famed for it, often is Colombian.



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