LATAM POLITICS TODAY-Brazil, China urge more climate change funding from developed countries

Pulido was a financial operator linked to lawmaker Hugbel Roa, also arrested in connection with alleged corruption at PDVSA, Communications Minister Freddy Nanez wrote on Twitter, without giving further details. U.S. charges El Chapo sons, Chinese businessmen with fentanyl trafficking The United States has charged leaders of the Mexico-based Sinaloa Cartel with running a fentanyl trafficking operation fueled by Chinese chemical and pharmaceutical companies, U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland said on Friday. Three sons of Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, the onetime leader of the Sinaloa Cartel now imprisoned in the United States, were among those charged, Garland said.

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Brazil, China urge more climate change funding from developed countries BRASILIA - Developed countries should speed up agreed climate change mitigation investments and technology development, said a joint statement from Brazil and China on Friday.

"We remain very concerned that funding provided by developed countries continues to fall short of the commitment of $100 billion per year," said the statement signed by Presidents Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and Xi Jinping, referring to the 2009 COP15 climate action commitments. Colombian businessman arrested in Venezuela PDVSA graft probe

CARACAS - Venezuelan authorities have arrested Colombian businessman Alvaro Pulido in an ongoing investigation into alleged corruption at Venezuelan state-run oil company PDVSA, Venezuela's communications minister said on Friday. Pulido was a financial operator linked to lawmaker Hugbel Roa, also arrested in connection with alleged corruption at PDVSA, Communications Minister Freddy Nanez wrote on Twitter, without giving further details.

U.S. charges El Chapo sons, Chinese businessmen with fentanyl trafficking The United States has charged leaders of the Mexico-based Sinaloa Cartel with running a fentanyl trafficking operation fueled by Chinese chemical and pharmaceutical companies, U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland said on Friday.

Three sons of Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, the onetime leader of the Sinaloa Cartel now imprisoned in the United States, were among those charged, Garland said. Ovidio Guzman Lopez, one of his sons, was arrested in Mexico and is awaiting extradition proceedings, federal prosecutors in Manhattan said. (Compiled by Steven Grattan; Editing by Bill Berkrot)

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