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Montevideo, March 7th 2025 - 02:52 UTC

Latin America

  • Friday, December 30th 2022 - 10:51 UTC

    Uruguay, a failed Mercosur summit and China's long shadow

    Uruguay had independently applied to join the Trans-Pacific Partnership previous to the Mercosur summit. This followed bilateral trade talks with China and Turkey

    Presidential summit meetings of the Mercosur alliance were usually sedate comfortable affairs until Uruguay decided to “open up to the world” under its pro-business President Luis Lacalle Pou.

  • Friday, December 30th 2022 - 09:48 UTC

    Azul adds new destinations to/from Montevideo

    Azul now links Montevideo with Porto Alegre, Florianopolis, Recife, and Foz do Iguazu

    Brazilian carrier Azul has added new services to and from Montevideo's Carrasco International Airport, thus increasing the Uruguayan capital's connectivity with destinations in South America's largest country, after direct flights to Foz do Iguazu, Florianópolis, and Recife were introduced.

  • Thursday, December 29th 2022 - 10:24 UTC

    Pacific Alliance in havoc; the group's summit re scheduled for second half of 2023

    Since then the Pacific Alliance is paralyzed, particularly given the street demonstrations loyal to Castillo and the decision to advance the Peruvian election to 2024

    The Pacific Alliance, the trade group made up of Chile, Peru, Colombia and Mexico is in havoc following the political and social situation in Peru, where president Pedro Castillo has been arrested following his attempt to close down congress.

  • Thursday, December 29th 2022 - 10:19 UTC

    Bolivian opposition leader arrested in blitz operative and sent to La Paz

    Footage of the incident, shared on social media, shows Camacho being handcuffed on the roadside while surrounded by armed law enforcement officers.

    The Bolivian police arrested the prominent opposition leader and governor of the Santa Cruz region, Luis Fernando Camacho. Interior Minister Eduardo del Castillo confirmed on Wednesday Camacho's detention on Twitter and said he would release more information later.

  • Wednesday, December 28th 2022 - 19:08 UTC

    Argentina: Colombian drug lord returns home pending legal proceedings

    Despite his ban from re-entering Argentine territory, Álvarez Meyendorff arrived at Ezeiza on Avianca's Flight 87 on Dec. 23 from Bogotá

    Colombian drug lord Ignacio Álvarez Meyendorff, who spent several days at Buenos Aires' Ezeiza International Airport finally decided not to wait for the Argentine's Judiciary decision regarding his rejection by Migration authorities and flew back to his native country, it was reported Wednesday.

  • Tuesday, December 27th 2022 - 10:00 UTC

    Mexico, AMLO’s False Promises and waiting for the next president

    AMLO pledged to improve the economy, fight inequality and corruption. As his six-year term enters its final stretch, it is clear that he will fail to keep his word.

    By Jorge G. Castañeda, NEW YORK – Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has reached the beginning of the end. AMLO, as he is widely known, was inaugurated on December 1, 2018, having promised to improve Mexico’s economy, reduce poverty and inequality, and tackle corruption and violence, all while strengthening the country’s infant democracy, and will leave office on September 30, 2024. With his term more over than not, most of what he was going to achieve has already been achieved – and it’s not much.

  • Tuesday, December 27th 2022 - 08:19 UTC

    Peruvian generals arrested in corruption scandal involving Castillo

    Castillo is also under investigation for influence peddling

    Six Peruvian generals have been arrested for their alleged involvement in a corruption ring involving former President Pedro Castillo Terrones, the country's Attorney General's Office announced Monday.

  • Monday, December 26th 2022 - 20:41 UTC

    Convicted Colombian drug lord waiting for clearance to enter Argentina

    Ignacio Alvarez Meyendorff is banned from the Argentine territory but claims it is a humanitarian issue due to his diabetes

    A Colombian drug lord was denied entry into Argentina, where he was seeking to avoid deportation. Ignacio Alvarez Meyendorff, 62, arrived at the Ezeiza airport on Avianca's Flight 87 on Dec. 23 from Bogotá but the alarms went off the minute his name was punched into the migrations screens. He has remained at the airport since. He has a wife and four children in Buenos Aires. He

  • Saturday, December 24th 2022 - 10:42 UTC

    Culture and institutions of democracy are proving to be resilient in Latin America

    Peru’s impeached leader, Pedro Castillo, was the first small-town schoolteacher to become president, but he was comically incompetent and woefully unprepared

    By Andrés Velasco (*) SANTIAGO – Just in recent months, Peru’s president attempted to dissolve Congress, Argentina’s vice president was convicted of fraud, and Brazil’s incumbent president threatened not to leave office if he lost the upcoming election. Add the consolidation of dictatorships in Venezuela and Nicaragua and the Salvadoran president’s announcement that he will seek re-election despite constitutional limits, and it would seem that democracy is in trouble in Latin America

  • Friday, December 23rd 2022 - 18:45 UTC

    Pecci case: Suspect not to be extradited to Colombia

    Salinas Mendoza is suspected of driving the jet ski bringing the hitman to shoot Pecci

    A suspect arrested in Venezuela for his alleged involvement in the murder of Paraguayan anti-mafia Prosecutor Marcelo Pecci while honeymooning in Colombia will not be extradited to stand trial, it was reported in Caracas.