MEXICO CITY (Sputnik) – More than 90 people, including civilians and police officers, were injured during street demonstrations in the Colombian capital over the past day, Secretary of Bogota’s government Luis Ernesto Gomez said on Wednesday.

Colombia has been swept by protests against a proposed tax reform, even though Colombian President Ivan Duque eventually revoked it.

British supermarkets, food suppliers, and manufacturers have warned politicians in Brazil that goods from the country will be banned in the UK if a law propelling deforestation in the Amazon is passed.

MEXICO CITY (Sputnik) - Hackers from the "Anonymous Colombia" group claim that they have shut down several government webpages and have leaked National Army and Senate data.

American actor, producer and musician Steven Seagal, who received Russian citizenship in 2016 and was subsequently appointed as a Russian special envoy for humanitarian liaison with the US, is also a widely-renowned aikido ace.

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - The US Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman, Bob Menendez, in a statement expressed concern over the risk the recent deadly clashes between police and protesters in the Colombian city of Cali poses to regional stability.

MEXICO CITY (Sputnik) - The death toll from the collapse of an overpass carrying a subway train in Mexico City has gone up to 24, municipal authorities said on Tuesday.

The metro overpass collapse, which happened earlier on Tuesday, claimed at least 23 lives, while 79 people were hospitalized. A rescue operation was launched after the incident.

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - The United States and its allies will continue to pressure the Venezuelan government to return the country to democracy, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Tuesday.

According to sources in law enforcement, they received their first reports from residents and employees of the school about an incident there around 10:35am local time.

RIO DE JANEIRO (Sputnik) - The Brazilian foreign and health ministries are willing to continue the conversation about Russia's coronavirus vaccine Sputnik V so it can be authorised for use in the country.

MEXICO CITY (Sputnik) - Colombia's Finance Minister Alberto Carrasquilla has resigned to provide a possibility to find a quick consensus on tax reform.

According to preliminary reports, medics and emergency services have already been dispatched to the site of the incident, while the head of the Mexico City government Claudia Sheinbaum has arrived at the scene.

MEXICO CITY (Sputnik) - Nationwide protests against tax reform in Colombia have killed 17, including a police officer, with several hundred injured, La FM radio station reported on Monday, citing the ombudsman's office.

On Saturday, a Mexican court moved to acquit Sinaloa drug cartel co-founder Héctor Luis Palma Salazar, alias "El Güero Palma," of organized crime charges. Despite his acquittal, Palma Salazar - who was previously extradited to, and back from the US - still remains in Mexican custody.

In 2018, Caracas launched its own cryptocurrency called the Petro backed by Venezuela's oil reserves, in a move that came against the backdrop of a severe economic meltdown in the South American nation. At the time, President Maduro vowed the government would create a single exchange rate linked to the Petro.

MEXICO CITY (Sputnik) - Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro says his country has received yet another delivery of Russia’s Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine.

The unpopular draft initiative, dubbed the Sustainable Solidarity Law, was proposed by President Ivan Duque in April in a bid to cushion the negative impact of the pandemic. The motion sparked mass protests among the populace, which views the proposed reform as a new tax burden.

The people of Chile and neighbouring countries are used to earthquakes, as the region is part the Ring of Fire - an area around much of the rim of the Pacific Ocean where many volcanic eruptions and earthquakes occur due to the collision of lithospheric plates.

MEXICO CITY (Sputnik) - Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro says the government has approved using the Petro cryptocurrency as the basis for calculating social benefit payments, in order to tackle inflation.