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Montevideo, August 6th 2025 - 08:23 UTC

Latin America

  • Wednesday, November 6th 2024 - 21:25 UTC

    World leaders congratulate Trump on his win - still not Harris

    Trump declared victory early Wednesday and announced that America's golden age lay ahead

    While leaders from the world over have congratulated Republican candidate Donald J. Trump on his electoral win on Tuesday which has earned him a second 4-year term at The Oval Office, Vice President Kamala Harris is yet to acknowledge defeat, as is customary in these cases. Perhaps Trump himself was the only one to break that tradition four years ago when rumors of vote count-rigging still gave him hope against Joseph Biden.

  • Tuesday, November 5th 2024 - 10:12 UTC

    Guatemalan authorities have corruption evidence against former President Giammatei

    However, the former head of state has immunity as a member of the Central American Parliament

    Guatemalan authorities found enough evidence to indict former President Alejandro Giammattei for corruption in the so-called “Red Q” case. However, the Attorney General's Office should request Giammatei's immunity lifted before proceeding any further with the “abuse of authority” and “influence peddling” charges in a case of hiring an official who was later sanctioned by the United States, namely the former director of the National Electrification Institute Melvin Quijivix Vega.

  • Monday, November 4th 2024 - 10:27 UTC

    Bolivian gov't announces countermeasures to Evistas

    So far 91 policemen have been injured in clashes with the Evistas

    Bolivian authorities announced Sunday that they would be launching “Operation Recovering the Homeland” after followers of former President Evo Morales seized three military barracks last week, keeping some 200 troops hostage.

  • Monday, November 4th 2024 - 09:36 UTC

    Evo's legal front reaches Argentina

    Del Castillo said Bolivia would be attentive to any requirement that might arrive from Buenos Aires

    Argentine authorities have filed a criminal complaint against former Bolivian President Evo Morales for the alleged rape and human trafficking of four teenage girls while he was under asylum in the country, Security Minister Patricia Bullrich announced during the weekend. Morales will be prosecuted for allegedly “committing crimes of human trafficking and sexual abuse,” Bullrich explained.

  • Saturday, November 2nd 2024 - 10:17 UTC

    Evo goes on hunger strike, calls for end to road blockades to seek dialogue

    Morales called for friendly international help to make Arce (L) understand.....

    Former Bolivian President Evo Morales announced Friday that he would go on a hunger strike as the conflict between him and his former Minister of Economy and ally, and current president, Luis Arce Catacora, continues to escalate.

  • Friday, November 1st 2024 - 10:42 UTC

    Bukele's El Salvador to send troops to Haiti

    Bukele has already claimed he can fix the Haitian gang crisis as he did in his country

    El Salvador's Congress gave its nod this week to the sending of troops to help violence-torn Haiti where crime gangs reign supreme. At first, El Salvador's assistance will be focused on medevac operations in coordination with the United Nations (UN) blue helmets deployed in the Caribbean country. The Parliamentarian decision thus ratified with 57 votes out of 60 the so-called ”Agreement on the Condition of the Multinational Security Support Mission (MMAS) in Haiti” signed by the diplomatic missions of El Salvador and Haiti to the Organization of American States (OAS).

  • Friday, November 1st 2024 - 10:14 UTC

    PAHO warns of surge in measles cases

    The continental agency suggested governments up their vaccination strategies

    Given the recent identification of measles clusters and cases in the Americas, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) issued an epidemiological alert on Thursday. Therefore, the World Health Organization's (WHO) continental subsidiary urged local governments to up their vaccination campaigns.

  • Tuesday, October 29th 2024 - 10:24 UTC

    Maduro lashes out at Itamaraty and Boric

    Boric “believed that supporting the fascists of Venezuela against the Bolivarian Revolution was going to give him votes, on the contrary people do not support cowards,” Maduro argued

    Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro Monday accused Brazil's Foreign Ministry of being an agent at the service of the United States, which would explain his country not being admitted as an associate member of BRICS, unlike Cuba and Bolivia.

  • Monday, October 28th 2024 - 21:44 UTC

    Rosatom completes first batch of nuclear fuel for Bolivia

    Bolivia was the first South American country to use Russian nuclear fuel, said Rosatom's Oleg Grigoriyev

    Russia's State Nuclear Energy Corporation Rosatom has completed the first batch of nuclear fuel for the reactor being built in Bolivian city of El Alto for the South American country's Center for Research and Development in Nuclear Technology (CIDTN), it was announced Monday in Moscow. The Russian Government agency also said in a statement that the chemicals manufactured at Rosatom's facilities in Novosibirsk had “passed acceptance inspection.” The fuel is to be delivered in 2025, it was also explained.

  • Monday, October 28th 2024 - 21:21 UTC

    Noboa hopes Colombia will help Ecuador through the energy crisis

    “If I were a normal citizen, I would be upset with the president if there were blackouts,” Noboa admitted

    Ecuadorean President Daniel Noboa asked neighboring Colombia for help getting through the electricity crisis with power cuts dating back to Sept. 23 affecting households up to 14 hours a day, it was reported Sunday. The head of state admitted his popularity was waning ahead of the Feb. 9, 2025, elections.