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Montevideo, June 14th 2025 - 17:40 UTC

Latin America

  • Saturday, June 10th 2023 - 09:50 UTC

    Miracle in the Colombian rainforest

    President Petro wrote on Twitter and posted a photo of military personnel and indigenous people, purportedly involved in the rescue operation.

    Four Indigenous children who went missing in the Colombian Amazon after surviving a plane crash 40 days ago have been found alive, Colombian President Gustavo Petro said on Friday. The small crash triggered a massive rescue operation for the four siblings.

  • Friday, June 9th 2023 - 11:21 UTC

    WSJ says China plans to install spying base in Cuba

    National Security Council Spokesman John Kirby said the report was inaccurate

    According to The Wall Street Journal (WSJ), the governments of China and Cuba signed an agreement whereby the Asian nation will install a spy base on the Caribbean island to intercept communications of all kinds in the United States.

  • Thursday, June 8th 2023 - 10:26 UTC

    Petro warns “soft coup” against him will not prevail

    Castillo was alone. Petro is not alone, the Colombian President stressed.

    Colombian President Gustavo Petro Wednesday said he could face the same fate as Peru's Pedro Castillo Terrones as Congress might try to impeach him out of office. “Once the reforms are overthrown, they intend to destroy me in the Commission of Accusations,” Petro argued while urging lawmakers not to betray “the will of the people”.

  • Thursday, June 8th 2023 - 10:20 UTC

    Sonnenholzner to run for president of Ecuador

    Sonnenholzner was vice president under Lenin Moreno

    Former Ecuadorian Vice President Otto Sonnenholzner Wednesday confirmed he will enter this year's snap elections called after President Guillermo Lasso enacted the so-called crossed-death mechanism which meant dissolving Parliament and ruling by decree until new lawmakers and a new head of state are chosen.

  • Wednesday, June 7th 2023 - 10:16 UTC

    Mexican FM to resign, wants to focus on presidential bid

    Ebrard had already announced in March his intention to be the next president

    Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard Tuesday announced that he would be resigning from his job to dedicate himself to the 2024 presidential campaign on behalf of the ruling National Regeneration Movement (Morena). Ebrard, 63, said that he will formally leave his post on June 12.

  • Wednesday, June 7th 2023 - 09:55 UTC

    Panama Canal water level suffering from climate change

    Everstream, a consulting firm monitoring supply chains, claims that each ship passing through the canal requires approximately 200 million liters of fresh water.

    Since the Panama Canal connected the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific in the early 20th century, it changes forever the history of global shipping. Before the canal was completed, ships had to go around the southern tip of South America, close to the Falklands coal fueling deposits, and a much longer and more dangerous route.

  • Tuesday, June 6th 2023 - 10:18 UTC

    Aruba, Venezuela resume bilateral trade after 4 years

    Clark said that the initiative was part of President Nicolás Maduro's foreign policy of a “diplomacy of peace”

    After a four-year hiatus, trade between Aruba and Venezuela resumed Monday with the arrival of 80 tons of merchandise from the continent to the island, marking the resumption of trade relations between the two countries.

  • Tuesday, June 6th 2023 - 10:09 UTC

    Vehicle production grows in Argentina

    “The activity continues to grow in a challenging context,” Galdeano said

    Argentina's Association of Automotive Manufacturers (Adefa) announced Monday that output reached 53,282 units in May, (14.8% more than in the same month of 2022), while exports grew by over 13% in the same period.

  • Monday, June 5th 2023 - 13:15 UTC

    Haitian-Chilean national gets life sentence for President Moïse's murder

    Jaar pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit murder

    Haitian-Chilean businessman Rodolphe Jaar was sentenced to life in prison by a Miami court for his role in the July 7, 2021, murder of President Jovenel Moïse in Port au Prince when a group of armed men - mostly Colombian mercenaries - stormed his home.

  • Monday, June 5th 2023 - 13:10 UTC

    Peru: State of emergency in Puno extended

    The armed forces have the task of protecting critical national assets

    Peru's government has extended the state of emergency in the Puno region for 60 days, thus allowing the Joint Command of the Armed Forces to retain the Unified Command of the Armed Forces and the National Police amid anti-government protests.