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Latin America

  • Monday, April 8th 2019 - 07:48 UTC

    First independent group march authorized in Cuba

    Accompanied by their pets, the activists carried placards calling for an animal protection law and chanted “down with animal abuse”

    Hundreds of Cubans marched peacefully through Havana calling for an end to animal cruelty on Sunday in what organizers believe was the first independent march authorized by the one-party state.

  • Saturday, April 6th 2019 - 09:49 UTC

    Trump's carrots stick approach to Mexico and the border illegal crossing dispute

    On his way to California, Trump said his border closing threat had succeeded in persuading Mexico to stop many would be illegal immigrants on their north journey

    President Donald Trump flew on Friday to visit newly built fencing on the Mexican border, even as he retreated from a threat to shut the frontier over what he says is an out-of-control influx of migrants and drugs.

  • Saturday, April 6th 2019 - 09:05 UTC

    Nicaragua's Ortega release 50 opposition prisoners

    The prisoners were released into house arrest, bringing to 250 the number of government opponents freed under a similar regime since Feb 27.

    Nicaragua on Friday released 50 opposition prisoners held during nationwide protests against President Daniel Ortega, the interior ministry said, two days after the end of talks aimed at resolving a deadly year-long political crisis.

  • Thursday, April 4th 2019 - 09:25 UTC

    NATO does not discard Latin American countries joining as alliance partners

    “Until 2017, NATO didn’t have any partners in Latin America and then in 2017 we got our first partner, which was Colombia,” the NATO leader said.

    NATO can look at the possibility of other Latin American states joining Colombia in becoming alliance partners, Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said on Wednesday, while appearing to rule out U.S. President Donald Trump’s suggestion that Brazil could one day become a full member of the North Atlantic security body.

  • Tuesday, April 2nd 2019 - 09:30 UTC

    Uruguayan president caught on the wrong foot forced to sack six generals and minister of Defense

    President Vazquez will have three different Army chiefs in less than a month

    Uruguay’s president has been involved in an embarrassing incident which forced him on Monday to remove the commander in chief of the army, the Defense Chief of Staff and four other generals for allegedly covering up that a retired member of the military committed a crime during the 1973-1985 dictatorship.

  • Monday, April 1st 2019 - 08:55 UTC

    Trump cuts aid to Central American countries to stop immigration to the US

    US officials say the immigration system at the border with Mexico is already at breaking point

    United States opposition politicians and aid agencies have questioned a decision by President Donald Trump to cut off aid to three Central American states. Mr. Trump ordered the suspension of aid payments to El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras to push their governments to stop migration into the US.

  • Saturday, March 30th 2019 - 08:30 UTC

    Red Cross ready to supply humanitarian aid to Venezuela, apparently negotiated with Maduro's regime

    
IFRC “can count on the legal and technical conditions to work in the country, to gain access to humanitarian aid that is so needed,” President Francesco Rocca said

    The International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies said on Friday it was prepared to channel humanitarian aid to Venezuela through an operation that could be similar to one in Syria, potentially helping ease chronic hunger and disease in the South American nation. President Nicolas Maduro in February blocked efforts by political opponents to bring US-backed aid into the country across its borders with neighboring Colombia and Brazil, and has denied the country is suffering a humanitarian crisis.

  • Friday, March 29th 2019 - 18:39 UTC

    Montevideo: The most expensive city and the best place to live in Latin America?

    Unlike the cities studied of the great neighbors, Brazil and Argentina, Montevideo (and Uruguay) stands out for the quality of its democracy and its relative economic stability

    The Uruguayan capital is the most expensive and the best to live in the region. At least that's what the studies of The Economist, which positioned Montevideo behind Mexico City in terms of cost, and the consultancy Mercer, which places the capital at the top of Latin American quality of life ranking, revealed in publications made this month. El País (Madrid) explains that Montevideo has a “crazy decadent charm”. However, why does this phenomenon occur?

  • Friday, March 29th 2019 - 09:20 UTC

    Colombia: The humanitarian situation worsened, alerted Red Cross

    The report indicates that Venezuelan migrants, as they pass through Colombia, are exposed to extortion and recruitment by various armed groups

    The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) presented on Thursday the balance of its main humanitarian concerns in Colombia, highlighting a deterioration of security conditions in the most remote areas of the country. The cases of armed conflicts and the violence that has continued to plague Colombia in recent decades, as well as the recent mass exodus of Venezuelan migrants, showed a complex humanitarian context.

  • Thursday, March 28th 2019 - 08:52 UTC

    OAS approves “Humanitarian Assistance in Venezuela”; Uruguay votes against

    The final tally was 19 countries in favor, 8 abstentions and 5 against, Antigua and Barbuda, Nicaragua, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Uruguay and Venezuela

    The Permanent Council of the Organization of American States (OAS) approved on Wednesday the resolution “Humanitarian Assistance in Venezuela” encouraging member states, permanent observers, and the competent international organizations “to continue providing support and implementing measures to address the humanitarian crisis in Venezuela.”