Latin America

• Friday, January 6th 2023 - 19:24 UTC

  Arrest of Chapo's son leaves at least 29 dead

  

  Following preliminary reports that mentioned only one fatality, at least 29 people have been confirmed Friday to have died during the raid to arrest 32-year-old druglord Ovidio Guzmán, allegedly linked to the Sinaloa cartel his father Joaquín (also known as “El Chapo”) used to run before being captured and extradited to the United States.

• Friday, January 6th 2023 - 10:19 UTC

  Chapo Guzmán's son arrested in Mexico

  

  Mexican authorities have arrested Ovidio Guzmán, also known as “El Ratón,” for allegedly trafficking fentanyl and other drugs. He is the son of former drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, who is currently incarcerated in the United States.

• Thursday, January 5th 2023 - 10:12 UTC

  Protests and road blockades resume in Peru

  

  Peruvian demonstrators went back to blocking roads and staging other protests nationwide over the impeachment of former President Pedro Castillo Terrones, after which 28 people have been killed.

• Thursday, January 5th 2023 - 10:00 UTC

  No truce with ELN, Colombian gov't now says

  

  Colombia's government Wednesday announced it was suspending its previous decision to decree a truce with the National Liberation Army (ELN) guerrillas after the rebel organization denied having agreed to it.

• Wednesday, January 4th 2023 - 21:15 UTC

  Japan takes a turn toward the Americas in 2023

  

  Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is to meet with US President Joseph Biden on Jan. 13 at the White House, while Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi has left on a South American tour seeking to strengthen ties with Mexico, Ecuador, Brazil, and Argentina.

• Wednesday, January 4th 2023 - 12:52 UTC

  Latin America forecasted to expand 1,3% in 2023, after growing 3,7% last year, ECLAC report

  

  In its annual report Preliminary Overview of the Economies of Latin America and the Caribbean, the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, ECLAC projects that regional growth next year will be a third of the rate forecast for 2022.

• Tuesday, January 3rd 2023 - 23:02 UTC

  Not bananas: shrimp now Ecuador's second-most-exported product

  

  After a steady growth since 2018, shrimp has taken over as Ecuador's second-most exported item behind oil, thus toppling bananas from a notch they had held for quite a while, it was reported in Quito.

• Tuesday, January 3rd 2023 - 10:04 UTC

  Argentine President highlights Brazil's return to international forums

  

  Argentine President Alberto Fernández Monday celebrated Brazil's “return” to all international forums and announced that “we have clearly decided to put the link between Argentina and Brazil back on track with full force,” following his meeting with President Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva.

• Monday, January 2nd 2023 - 10:59 UTC

  Lula sworn in for the third time as President of Brazil

  

  Workers' Party founder and leader Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was sworn in Sunday for the third time as President of Brazil during a ceremony held at Brasilia's Congress building which was not attended by the outgoing head of state Jair Bolsonaro.

• Monday, January 2nd 2023 - 09:40 UTC

  Commando group storms Mexican prison; 14 dead, 24 escape

  

  At least 10 prison guards have been killed on New Year's Eve during a shootout as over twenty inmates escaped the Social Rehabilitation Center (Cereso) 3 in Ciudad Juarez, in the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua. Four detainees were also reported to have died in the riot.