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Latin America

  • Sunday, December 31st 2023 - 23:13 UTC

    Colombia: Petro signs free college education decree

    Despite Petro's decree, some expenses will still be borne by students

    After mistakenly claiming that Argentina had expelled some 20,000 Colombian university students, President Gustavo Petro upped the ante and decreed that such studies would henceforth be free in his country.

  • Saturday, December 30th 2023 - 11:26 UTC

    Violence mounting regionally, Uruguayan police chief says

    Azambuya advised Uruguayans to look after themselves

    Uruguayan Police Director José Manuel Azambuya said Friday that the growth in violence recorded recently in the South American country was of regional proportions. “We have seen that violence has been growing, not only in our country but it is regional,” Azambuya maintained during a press conference in Montevideo.

  • Saturday, December 30th 2023 - 11:16 UTC

    Petro opens arms to free-ride students targeted by Argentine bill

    On the domestic front, Petro wants local companies to “free themselves” to compete and be more productive

    Colombian President Gustavo Petro Friday announced on social media that his government would assist some 20,000 nationals from his country who might be affected by Argentine President Javier Milei's proposed austerity measures regarding spending cuts including an end to tuition-free studies for non-resident foreigners.

  • Saturday, December 30th 2023 - 10:38 UTC

    UK says Venezuela's military maneuvers “unjustified”

    The UK sent the HMS Trent in support of its former colony “for a series of routine engagements in the region”

    The United Kingdom said Venezuelan President Nicolàs Maduro's decision to up his country's military readiness over the Essequibo dispute with Guyana was “unjustified.” The Bolivarian forces deployed over 5,000 troops in response to the arrival in the area of the Royal Navy's HMS Trent.

  • Friday, December 29th 2023 - 10:45 UTC

    Essequibo crisis: Venezuela launches defensive military operation

    The Trent's presence in the area has been “synchronized with actions by the United States Southern Command,” Maduro's government also pointed out

    Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro ordered preventive measures be taken as the Royal Navy's HMS Trent was reaching the area to side with Guyana amid tensions over the disputed oil-rich Essequibo area.

  • Thursday, December 28th 2023 - 08:05 UTC

    Bolivia declares epidemiological alert as number of Covid-19 grows

    The system must remain attentive, Minister Castro said

    Bolivian authorities Wednesday decreed an epidemiological alert in the face of an increasing number of cases of Covid-19. “It is not the first alert that it is launched,” Health Minister María Renée Castro explained. “When we have some diseases that begin to circulate we launch an alert to tell the system that it must remain attentive, so that we are all there, with all the protocols,” she added.

  • Wednesday, December 27th 2023 - 10:29 UTC

    Lowest rainfall in over 40 years affects Amazon basin rivers

    A study from the EU showed that a series of heat waves from August to November raised the temperature by a record high for this time of year

    A recent study from the European Union Science Center showed that rivers in the Amazon basin have been severely affected by historic poor rainfalls, Agencia Brasil reported. The region's biodiversity has also been hit by the meteorological conditions, particularly in the headwaters of the Solimões, Purus, Juruá, and Madeira rivers (Brazil's Amazonas state) and also in parts of Peruvian and Bolivian forests.

  • Wednesday, December 27th 2023 - 10:25 UTC

    Covid-19: Pirola strain detected in Argentina

    The case of Pirola in Argentina was detected in the Southern Province of Santa Cruz

    Argentine health authorities Tuesday confirmed the first case of the JN.1 strain of the SARS-Cov-2 virus, also known as Pirola, which has been labeled a variant of interest (VOI) by the World Health Organization (WHO) last week.

  • Wednesday, December 27th 2023 - 08:23 UTC

    Mexicana's rocky return to the skies

    The Boeing 737-800 finally made it to Tulum after a stop in Merida allegedly due to bad weather

    Mexicana's Flight 1788, the carrier's maiden flight after being rescued from bankruptcy by the Government of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, made the headlines Tuesday for all the wrong reasons after diverting to Mérida from its original destination: Tulum.

  • Tuesday, December 26th 2023 - 07:09 UTC

    UK sends HMS Trent in support of Guyana

    HMS Trent, similar River class as HMS Forth, Falklands patrol vessel, is scheduled to take part in joint exercises with Guyana after Christmas.

    The Royal Navy Offshore Patrol Vessel HMS Trent has been dispatched to Guyana in a show of British support for the Commonwealth nation. Guyana is suffering threats of invasion and land grabbing by neighboring Venezuela which claims some two-thirds of the former British colony's territory.