Latin America

Saturday, August 13th 2022 - 09:32 UTC
HRW concerned as 2 journalists indicted in Bolivia

Human Rights Watch Friday posted messages on Twitter admitting to the organization's concern over the charges filed in Bolivia by Prosecutor Junior Flores against journalists Andrés Rojas and Adriana G., whose arrest was requested.
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Saturday, August 13th 2022 - 09:27 UTC
Colombia: ELN rebels release hostages while returning to peace talks

As peace negotiations between the Colombian Government and the National Liberation Army (ELN) kick off in Cuba, the guerrilla movement has released nine people who were being held hostage since last month in the department of Arauca.
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Friday, August 12th 2022 - 13:51 UTC
Petro: Pecci murder by Uruguayan drug trafficker “shows that drug trafficking has long ceased to be a US-Colombian bilateral problem”

Colombian new president Gustavo Petro has referred to the murder of Paraguayan prosecutor Marcelo Pecci, who was killed in May on the island of Barú, in the Colombian Caribbean. This crime has been linked this week to Uruguayan drug trafficker Sebastián Marset, fugitive of Uruguay’s and Paraguay’s justice, and accused of ordering Pecci’s execution.
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Friday, August 12th 2022 - 10:15 UTC
Uruguayan drug trafficker involved in several crimes, accused of ordering murder of Paraguayan prosecutor Marcelo Pecci

Uruguayan drug trafficker Sebastián Marset has been accused of ordering the death of Paraguayan prosecutor Marcelo Pecci, who was murdered in May on the island of Barú, in the Colombian Caribbean, reported Colombian newspaper El Tiempo on Tuesday.
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Thursday, August 11th 2022 - 09:24 UTC
Argentine MSMEs reach record exports in first semester of 2022

Argentine Micro, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (MSMEs) have reached peak export figures during the first semester of 2022.
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Wednesday, August 10th 2022 - 09:58 UTC
Mexico: AMLO announcement dubbed “a soft coup”

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) Tuesday came under heavy criticism when he announced that he would transfer the National Guard to the scope of the Armed Forces, which was regarded as a “soft” coup d'état.
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Tuesday, August 9th 2022 - 09:10 UTC
Boric and Petro discuss region's leaning to the left

Chile's President Gabriel Boric Font Monday became the first foreign leader welcomed for a one-on-one meeting by Colombia's new head of state Gustavo Petro.
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Monday, August 8th 2022 - 10:02 UTC
Pilcomayo river under environmental threat in northern Argentina

Authorities in the Argentine province of Salta have issued a recommendation not to bathe, fish, or drink water from the Pilcomayo river pending studies undertaken by the Secretariat of Water Resources after the collapse of a dam in Bolivia.
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Monday, August 8th 2022 - 09:55 UTC
Petro sworn in as President of Colombia: times of change ahead

Gustavo Petro was sworn in Sunday as Colombia's first-ever leftwing president, thus succeeding the conservative and highly unpopular Iván Duque.
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Saturday, August 6th 2022 - 11:23 UTC
Puebla Group approaches Argentine President to funnel agenda

The forum bringing together leftwing leaders known as the Puebla Group is to bring Argentine President Alberto Fernández a proposal for the convergence of the different integration mechanisms existing in the region, former Colombian President Ernesto Samper (1994-1998) announced Friday.
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