Latin America

• Wednesday, June 1st 2022 - 09:48 UTC

  Colombia: Coal miner dies, other 14 trapped inside after explosion

  

  Miner Fabio Cáceres García died Tuesday as a result of “an explosion of methane and coal dust” in El Zulia in eastern Colombia, while 14 other workers remained trapped, it was reported.

• Wednesday, June 1st 2022 - 09:45 UTC

  Nicaragua's Parliament bans Language Academy and 82 other NGOs

  

  Nicaragua's legal assembly has approved with no debate Sandinista Deputy Filiberto Rodríguez's bill to outlaw the Language Academy and 82 other NGOs which, according to the Ministry of the Interior (Mingob), have failed to comply with financial regulations regarding donations from abroad.

• Wednesday, June 1st 2022 - 09:35 UTC

  IAPA concerned over Judiciary deployment in Costa Rican newspaper case

  

  Inter-American Press Association (IAPA) President Jorge Canahuati urged Costa Rica's judiciary to handle the process with transparency and to observe the due process of law as legal action has been taken involving Diario Extra.

• Tuesday, May 31st 2022 - 10:55 UTC

  “Colombian Trump” now 3 weeks from being elected

  

  Non-leftwing voters have all their eggs now in Rodolfo Hernandez's basket, after the candidate many dub the “Colombian Trump” made it to the second round against all forecasts, to face off former M19 guerrilla leader and current Senator Gustavo Petro June 19.

• Tuesday, May 31st 2022 - 10:04 UTC

  Hurricane Agatha makes landfall in Mexican state of Oaxaca

  

  Agatha Monday made landfall in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca as a Class 2 hurricane, according to reports from the National Meteorological Service (SMN).

• Tuesday, May 31st 2022 - 09:49 UTC

  WHO says tobacco industry poisoning the planet, and sponsors “polluter pays principle” and banning cigarette filters

  

  The World Health Organization (WHO) revealed on Tuesday new information on the extent to which tobacco damages both the environment and human health, calling for steps to make the industry more accountable for the destruction it is causing.

• Tuesday, May 31st 2022 - 09:30 UTC

  Mexico facing water shortages despite approaching heavy storms

  

  Mexico's National Water Commission (Conagua) has been reported to be drafting a new emergency declaration after several of the country's basins are affected by severe droughts in at least one-third of the country.

• Monday, May 30th 2022 - 09:55 UTC

  Surprise runner-up to take on Petro in Colombia's presidential runoff

  

  Leftwing candidate and former M19 guerrilla leader Gustavo Petro, 62, won Sunday's presidential elections in Colombia, as all polls had foreseen. But he will face 77-year-old populist Rodolfo Hernández at the runoff in three weeks, which nobody saw coming.

• Monday, May 30th 2022 - 09:49 UTC

  More prosecutors killed in Latin America

  

  Following the assassination of Paraguay's Marcelo Pecci while honeymooning in Colombia, two other crimes have hit Latin American prosecutors in the last days of May.

• Monday, May 30th 2022 - 09:18 UTC

  Car bomb goes off in Ecuador – no victims this time around

  

  Nobody was injured as a car bomb went off in front of a Guayaquil police precinct, it was reported Sunday.