Latin America

• Tuesday, May 31st 2022 - 10:55 UTC

  “Colombian Trump” now 3 weeks from being elected

  

  Non-leftwing voters have all their eggs now in Rodolfo Hernandez's basket, after the candidate many dub the “Colombian Trump” made it to the second round against all forecasts, to face off former M19 guerrilla leader and current Senator Gustavo Petro June 19.

• Tuesday, May 31st 2022 - 10:04 UTC

  Hurricane Agatha makes landfall in Mexican state of Oaxaca

  

  Agatha Monday made landfall in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca as a Class 2 hurricane, according to reports from the National Meteorological Service (SMN).

• Tuesday, May 31st 2022 - 09:49 UTC

  WHO says tobacco industry poisoning the planet, and sponsors “polluter pays principle” and banning cigarette filters

  

  The World Health Organization (WHO) revealed on Tuesday new information on the extent to which tobacco damages both the environment and human health, calling for steps to make the industry more accountable for the destruction it is causing.

• Tuesday, May 31st 2022 - 09:30 UTC

  Mexico facing water shortages despite approaching heavy storms

  

  Mexico's National Water Commission (Conagua) has been reported to be drafting a new emergency declaration after several of the country's basins are affected by severe droughts in at least one-third of the country.

• Monday, May 30th 2022 - 09:55 UTC

  Surprise runner-up to take on Petro in Colombia's presidential runoff

  

  Leftwing candidate and former M19 guerrilla leader Gustavo Petro, 62, won Sunday's presidential elections in Colombia, as all polls had foreseen. But he will face 77-year-old populist Rodolfo Hernández at the runoff in three weeks, which nobody saw coming.

• Monday, May 30th 2022 - 09:49 UTC

  More prosecutors killed in Latin America

  

  Following the assassination of Paraguay's Marcelo Pecci while honeymooning in Colombia, two other crimes have hit Latin American prosecutors in the last days of May.

• Monday, May 30th 2022 - 09:18 UTC

  Car bomb goes off in Ecuador – no victims this time around

  

  Nobody was injured as a car bomb went off in front of a Guayaquil police precinct, it was reported Sunday.

• Saturday, May 28th 2022 - 10:20 UTC

  Senator Petro ahead in all polls for Sunday's elections in Colombia

  

  The 62-year-old Senator Gustavo Petro is poised to win Sunday's presidential elections in Colombia, according to all surveys, in what would be a historic turn to the left for the only NATO associate country in South America.

• Saturday, May 28th 2022 - 10:10 UTC

  Bolivia to import diesel to relief drivers in the west

  

  Bolivia's state-run oil company YPFB will import 2.5 million liters of diesel fuel from Chile to reverse the current shortage, it was announced.

• Saturday, May 28th 2022 - 10:07 UTC

  Lula celebrates new polls and asks Colombians to support Petro

  

  Former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva Friday celebrated the results of Datafolha's most recent survey, according to which he might win the Oct. 2 elections, even probably in the first round.