Peter Orsi

March 13, 2017 | Daily Business Review

On Feb. 19, 2016, at a campaign rally in North Charleston, South Carolina, then-candidate Donald Trump gave a stump speech in which he railed against American jobs moving to Mexico: "We lose our jobs, we close our factories, Mexico gets all of the work," he said. "We get nothing." That same day a law firm in Mexico City quietly filed on behalf of his company for trademarks on his name that would authorize the Trump brand, should it choose, to set up shop in a country with which he has sparred over trade, migration and the planned border wall.

By Peter Orsi and Bernard Condon

11 minute read

January 25, 2017 | Daily Business Review

Tamara Alcala Dominguez sobbed, barely able to speak, as she buried her face in the sweater of the woman who cared for her when she was a toddler.

By Manuel Valdes and Peter Orsi, Associated Press

12 minute read

January 20, 2017 | Daily Business Review

Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman's abrupt exit to face charges in the U.S. marks the end of an era in which he was Mexico's most notorious drug cartel boss and, for some, the stuff of folk legend.

By Peter Orsi, Associated Press

10 minute read

November 30, 2016 | Daily Business Review

Thousands of Cubans lined the streets of Havana Wednesday morning, some sleeping on sidewalks overnight, to bid goodbye to Fidel Castro as his ashes began a four-day journey across the country he ruled for nearly 50 years.

By Peter Orsi and Juan Zamorano, Associated Press

7 minute read

October 14, 2016 | Daily Business Review

Hurricane Matthew's destruction in Haiti has put on hold a new policy of deporting Haitians who are in the United States without permission but the government intends to return to it in the future, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said.

By Peter Orsi, Associated Press

5 minute read

May 10, 2016 | Daily Business Review

Questions arose on both sides of the border about the decision to relocate convicted drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman to a region that is one of his cartel's strongholds, and a Mexican security official acknowledged that the sudden transfer was to a less-secure prison.

By Peter Orsi and E. Eduardo Castillo, Associated Press

5 minute read

May 05, 2016 | Daily Business Review

For months before her death, environmental activist Berta Caceres complained of repeated threats warning her to stop leading protests opposing a hydroelectric project on her Lenca people's ancestral lands.

By Freddy Cuevas and Peter Orsi, Associated Press

11 minute read

December 30, 2014 | Daily Business Review

The US' seven-story mission is poised to become an important presence in Cuba as the two countries negotiate the first phase of their historic detente—transforming the complex into a full embassy that would reflect the Obama administration's hopes of new influence on the communist island.

By Peter Orsi

5 minute read

May 28, 2013 | Law.com

Official silence surrounded the case of a Canadian businessman targeted by a corruption probe in Cuba on Friday, as the initial trial of several foreigners suspected of graft entered its second day.

By Peter Orsi

3 minute read