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Montevideo, June 7th 2025 - 14:47 UTC

Latin America

  • Friday, October 4th 2024 - 09:41 UTC

    Arrest warrant against Evo Morales issued and repealed

    Morales is said to have been involved in a rape and human trafficking case with a 15-year-old girl back in 20016 when he was still president

    Bolivia's Judiciary issued an arrest warrant against former President Evo Morales in connection with a human trafficking case involving a minor but the measure was halted later, despite which the indigenous leader claimed he felt persecuted and threatened.

  • Thursday, October 3rd 2024 - 10:27 UTC

    Peru's Air Force contemplating ambitious purchase program

    “At last, we are giving importance to investments as thought with a State vision,” Astudillo underlined

    Peruvian authorities will move on with the project to purchase 24 new fighter jets for the South American country's Air Force (FAP), Defense Minister Walter Enrique Astudillo Chávez confirmed.

  • Thursday, October 3rd 2024 - 09:58 UTC

    Evo's refugee status revoked in Argentina

    Morales landed in Argentina once Alberto Fernández was sworn in

    The Argentine Government of Javier Milei announced Wednesday that it was terminating former Bolivian President Evo Morales' refugee status, according to a posting by Presidential Spokesman Manuel Adorni on X: “Juan Evo Morales Ayma's refugee status has been terminated,” Adorni wrote in his @madorni account.

  • Thursday, October 3rd 2024 - 02:21 UTC

    What new Latin American movies are available to stream?

    Photo: Netflix

    The arrival of streaming services has allowed Latin American movies to reach a wider audience than ever before. With a variety of films from across the region making waves recently, what are some of the best new movies you might want to stream?

  • Tuesday, October 1st 2024 - 22:45 UTC

    Leftist Sheinbaum sworn in as Mexico's first female president

    The new head of state has a PhD in energy engineering and considers herself a strong believer in science

    The 62-year-old Claudia Sheinbaum became Mexico's first-ever woman president Tuesday after being sworn in on Tuesday. The former Mexico City Mayor thus succeeds her leftwing MoReNa (Movimiento de Regeneración Nacional) mentor Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who has announced he would be retiring from politics.

  • Tuesday, October 1st 2024 - 09:16 UTC

    Milei welcomes Bukele at Casa Rosada

    Bukele arrived in Buenos Aires last Friday but his activities during the weekend remained under the utmost secrecy

    Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele met Monday in Casa Rosada with his Argentine counterpart Javier Milei to discuss bilateral cooperation on issues such as “energy, trade, and security,” it was reported in Buenos Aires. During his stay in the Argentine capital, Bukele also held an encounter with Foreign Minister Diana Mondino and participated in other protocol engagements.

  • Monday, September 30th 2024 - 09:47 UTC

    Bolivia stops gas sales to Argentina, shifts toward Brazil

    The western Brazilian market is a Bolivian gas market, Dorgathen explained

    After terminating the supply to Argentina, Bolivia will up its gas pumping towards Brazil according to an agreement between YPFB and Petrobras. Buenos Aires announced it would no longer be needing Bolivian gas since Vaca Muerta, the second-largest reserve in the world and the fourth-largest oil reserve, guarantees the supply for its domestic market.

  • Thursday, September 26th 2024 - 10:32 UTC

    Quito fires lead Noboa to cancel UN engagements and return to Ecuador

    At least six people were killed in the Ecuadorean capital

    Ecuador's President Daniel Noboa Wednesday halted his agenda in New York and returned to his country after a suspect was arrested in connecting with arson maneuvers in Quito that have the country's capital under fire. The head of state also explained that terrorism charges would be filed against the perpetrator, who would thus face between 10 to 13 years in prison.

  • Wednesday, September 25th 2024 - 15:40 UTC

    Well-preserved Ice Age mastodons found in Peru

    The near-complete preservation of one specimen heralded possible findings of global importance if the skull is found, it was explained

    Peruvian archaeologists found the fossilized remains of three Ice Age mastodons, which shed new light on these animals' presence in the region, with further specimes hoped to be unearthed shortly as the excavations that began in 2019 in the Chambara Valley, 300 kilometers east of Lima, are scheduled to continue. The behemoths found there are believed to be between 11,000 and 12,000 years old.

  • Wednesday, September 25th 2024 - 11:09 UTC

    Colombian President critical of Argentine colleague before UN

    Petro did not mention Milei by name but criticized people who go around chanting “Long fucking live freedom”

    Colombian President Gustavo Petro criticized the advance of global right leaders who chant “Long fucking live freedom“ but mean ”only the freedom of the richest 1% of the world's population.” Although he did not mention him by name, Petro was undoubtedly referring to his Argentine colleague Javier Milei's war cry. “Their mercantile and free sentiment leads to the destruction of the atmosphere and of life,” Colombia's first-ever leftwing head of state elaborated in defense of the environment.