Latin America

• Wednesday, May 25th 2022 - 03:31 UTC

  Bolsonaro angry at YPFB for selling Argentina the gas that was for Brazil

  

  Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro complained that Bolivia's state-owned oil company Yacimientos Petróliferos Fiscales Bolivianos (YPFB) funneled 30% of the gas that was to be sold to Brazil and sent it to Argentina as a part of an “orchestrated plan” against him and added Petrobras was behind it.

• Tuesday, May 24th 2022 - 10:03 UTC

  Defense ministers to create “Argentine-Bolivian Working Group”

  

  Argentine Defense Minister Jorge Taiana Monday welcomed his Bolivian counterpart Edmundo Novillo Aguilar in Buenos Aires. During the meeting, an agreement to create the so-called “Argentine-Bolivian Working Group” was signed.

• Monday, May 23rd 2022 - 22:37 UTC

  Nearly 34,000 arrested under El Salvador's state of emergency

  

  Around 34,000 people have been placed under arrest thanks to the state of emergency in force in El Salvador since March 27, it was reported Monday as Congress is set to agree on yet another extension of the measure. Human rights organizations have warned of arbitrary arrests.

• Monday, May 23rd 2022 - 10:54 UTC

  Colombian candidates round up presidential campaign

  

  Candidates in Colombia have rounded up their campaigns over the weekend, ahead of the May 29 Presidential elections in which leftwing hopeful Gustavo Petro is expected to win, according to most polls.

• Monday, May 23rd 2022 - 10:30 UTC

  Complicated Colombian presidential election; left-wing candidate leads but with a ceiling in the runoff

  

  Next Sunday Colombia will be voting for a new president and a last set of public opinion polls indicate that a left wing candidate, former guerrilla and ex mayor of the capital Bogotá has the most chances of succeeding current president Ivan Duque.

• Monday, May 23rd 2022 - 10:01 UTC

  Never-graduating student leader arrested in Bolivia for embezzlement

  

  A 52-year-old Bolivian student leader who has spent the last 33 years of his life unsuccessfully pursuing a law degree has been arrested over fudgy dealings as president of the Bolivian University Confederation (CUB).

• Monday, May 23rd 2022 - 09:20 UTC

  Uruguay, Peru take preventive action against monkeypox

  

  Uruguayan health authorities announced during the weekend they were monitoring the possible local appearance of suspected cases of monkeypox, based on “the symptomatology and travel history” of individuals.

• Saturday, May 21st 2022 - 23:03 UTC

  US refineries purchasing more oil and fuel from Mexico, Colombia and Argentina

  

  Complying with President Jose Biden's administration sanctions on Russia, United States refiners imported some 1.3 million barrels per day (bpd) of Latin American crude and fuel oil, the highest level in seven months, according to US customs data.

• Saturday, May 21st 2022 - 08:39 UTC

  Argentina extends Paraná river water emergency

  

  The Argentine government of President Alberto Fernández Friday announced it was extending the declaration of emergency for another 180 days in the Paraná River area as water levels remained at historically low levels.

• Saturday, May 21st 2022 - 07:45 UTC

  Queues of vessels waiting to cross the Panama Canal as post pandemic global trade picks up

  

  Global transportation bottlenecks that have surged since the pandemic have shaken industries, consumers, deliveries, and prices. Clear evidence of this can be seen in the current Panama Canal queues of vessels.