Latin America

• Monday, October 18th 2021 - 10:05 UTC

  Buenos Aires key to the region's future, says Pepe Mujica

  

  Former Uruguayan President José “Pepe” Mujica said this weekend in a newspaper interview that the future of the River Plate area was at stake and it hinged on whatever happens in the Argentine capital.

• Monday, October 18th 2021 - 09:57 UTC

  PAHO/ECLAC report on Covid-19 exposes the fragility of Latin America's health systems

  

  In n a new joint report released the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) urge the governments of the region to accelerate vaccination processes and improve health systems.

• Monday, October 18th 2021 - 09:48 UTC

  Bolivia's ruling party sets up headquarters in Peru

  

  Just a couple of days after Peru's President Pedro Castillo Terrones lost support from his Marxist Peru Libre party, which decided not to support his new cabinet, press reports have come out indicating former Bolivian President Evo Morales's Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) has set foot into the country and even has established its headquarters in Cusco.

• Monday, October 18th 2021 - 00:10 UTC

  Maduro associate extradited from Cape Verde to face criminal charges in Miami; Venezuela claims “kidnapping”

  

  The Venezuelan government walked out of negotiations with the opposition following on the extradition of Colombian businessman Alex Saab from Cape Verde to the United States where he faces trial on money laundering and corruption.

• Sunday, October 17th 2021 - 08:16 UTC

  Bolivia's Constitutional Court rules Áñez presidency was illegal

  

  The swearing-in of Jeanine Áñez as president of Bolivia was unconstitutional. © AFP Jeanine Áñez's swearing-in as president of Bolivia was unconstitutional.

• Saturday, October 16th 2021 - 09:21 UTC

  Peru's ruling party diverts from proposed cabinet

  

  The leader of Peru's ruling party Peru Libre, Vladimir Cerrón, Friday said he believed the proposed cabinet had changed course from the movement's original guidelines in an “undeniable political turn towards the centre-right, where the 'caviar' representatives increased.”

• Friday, October 15th 2021 - 09:59 UTC

  Uruguay to make vaccination an option for tourists after borders reopen

  

  Uruguay's Tourism Minister Tabaré Viera Thursday announced his country would include COVID-19 vaccination to incoming foreign travellers when the country's borders are fully reopened.

• Friday, October 15th 2021 - 09:50 UTC

  Death of Venezuelan political prisoner rattles Washington DC

  

  Organization of American States (OAS) Secretary-General Luis Almagro Thursday pledged he would ask the United Nations to request the exhumation and autopsy of the late Venezuelan General Raúl Baduel, who died of COVID-19 while incarcerated by the Nicolás Maduro regime for alleged political crimes.

• Friday, October 15th 2021 - 09:20 UTC

  IDB 2022 Annual Assembly to be held in Uruguayan resort of Punta del Este

  

  The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) will hold its 2022 annual meeting of governors between March 17 and 20, 2022 at the most exclusive Uruguayan beach resort of Punta del Este, it was announced this week in Washington DC.

• Friday, October 15th 2021 - 09:20 UTC

  Peruvian President praises China's meaning to his country's exports

  

  Peru's President Pedro Castillo Thursday highlighted China's importance as a strategic Asia-Pacific partner in terms of foreign trade and investments.