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Montevideo, January 16th 2025 - 05:41 UTC

Latin America

  • Tuesday, July 26th 2022 - 23:11 UTC

    Colombian JEP to hear on yet another 303 “false positives”

    “False positives” were peasants or poor people passed off as guerrillas allegedly gunned down in combat through with which the military officers “proved” they were worthy of a promotion

    Criminal charges have been filed Monday against 22 Colombian military officers for the murder of 303 people who were initially reported as “false positives” (peasants said to be guerrillas gunned down in combat) between 2005 and 2008.

  • Tuesday, July 26th 2022 - 20:20 UTC

    Former Peruvian Presidential Secretary turns himself in

    Pacheco said he was willing “to collaborate with justice and tell the truth in all cases that are linked to me”

    Bruno Pacheco, the former Peruvian Presidential Secretary and one of the most wanted men in the country turned himself in Tuesday. He is under investigation in a series of corruption scandals for which the head of state Pedro Castillo Terrones has already been summoned to testify. He had been at large for over 100 days.

  • Tuesday, July 26th 2022 - 09:42 UTC

    Daunting challenges for the reformed Colombia Petro pledged

    Colombia is battling with the highest public debt in its history at 65% of GDP, while annual inflation has risen to 9.6%

    President-elect Gustavo Petro won on the promise to bring deep social, economic and political change in Colombia, but challenges are daunting. Currently the country's GDP is estimated by OECD to grow 6,1% as a result of a post-pandemic consumption boost and international demand for fossil fuels because of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

  • Monday, July 25th 2022 - 10:00 UTC

    ELN interested in peace deal with future Colombian gov't

    “The war on drug trafficking must end because it is a policy that did not produce any positive results,” the ELN leader said

    Colombia's National Liberation Army (ELN) leader Eliécer Erlinto Chamorro, alias Antonio García, has said on his Twitter account that the guerrilla militias under his command were interested in reaching peace deal with future President Gustavo Petro after he takes office on August 7.

  • Saturday, July 23rd 2022 - 10:31 UTC

    Latin America up for increasingly worsening weather

    Food and water supplies will be affected, the UN agency's report warned

    The consequences of climate change will continue to worsen in Latin America and the Caribbean, affecting health, development, and food supplies, according to a report from the UN's World Meteorological Organization (WMO) released Friday.

  • Saturday, July 23rd 2022 - 10:28 UTC

    Peru: Case against Castillo reopened despite immunity

    Castillo insisted no evidence had been found against him, although many of his aides and relatives were proven to be involved in illegal activities

    Peruvian judiciary authorities have launched the fifth active inquest into President Pedro Castillo Terrones' alleged involvement in acts of corruption, it was announced Friday in Lima, after Prosecutor Patricia Benavides reopened the case once opened by Zoraida Ávalos on the purchase of biodiesel from Heaven Petroleum.

  • Thursday, July 21st 2022 - 21:27 UTC

    Brazil of Hope alliance makes Lula's candidacy official

    A most recent poll by the Quaest agency showed Lula ahead with 45 % of the votes, followed by Bolsonaro's 31% and Gomes' 8%

    A coalition including the Workers' Party (PT) of Brazil Thursday launched the presidential ticket of Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva and Geraldo Alckmin for the October 2 elections, where incumbent President Jair Bolsonaro is the man to beat samwichxdsf

  • Thursday, July 21st 2022 - 21:20 UTC

    Uruguay refuses to sign Mercosur Summit's joint statement

    Lacalle said the document was not open to “flexibilizing” the bloc

    The Government of Uruguay Thursday refrained from signing the joint document penned at the Mercosur Summit in Asunción, on the grounds that it lacked any mention of flexibilization, which the Luis Lacalle Pou administration needs to broker one-on-one deals with other blocs or countries or blocs of the block.

  • Thursday, July 21st 2022 - 09:46 UTC

    Bolivian railroad seeks to boost region's global trade capabilities

    Mayta participated in Asunción's meeting on behalf of Bolivia, a Mercosur associate member

    Bolivia's Foreign Minister Rogelio Mayta Wednesday highlighted his country's Bioceanic Integration Railway Corridor (CFBI), which seeks to link the Brazilian port of Santos with Ilo in Peru to further develop the region's trade capabilities.

  • Thursday, July 21st 2022 - 08:28 UTC

    College-like education program launched for teachers of Guarani

    The college-degree-like studies are validated by the National Institute of Teacher Training of Argentina

    Education authorities in the Argentine province of Corrientes Wednesday launched a variety of Guarani programs whereby students can get various college-type degrees for the teaching of the ancestral language.