Latin America

• Monday, April 18th 2022 - 09:40 UTC

  Ecuadorian President lands in BA for River Plate tour

  

  Ecuador's President Guillermo Lasso landed in Buenos Aires Sunday for his first official visit to the River Plate. He plans to meet Presidents Alberto Fernández of Argentina Monday and Luis Lacalle Pou of Uruguay Tuesday.

• Monday, April 18th 2022 - 08:46 UTC

  Chemical castration an option for rapists of minors, says Peru's President

  

  Peruvian President Pedro Castillo Terrones Saturday announced he was eyeing the use of mandatory chemical castration for rapists of minors, adolescents, and women in a move to curb the increasing number of such crimes. The initiative would require Congressional approval.

• Monday, April 18th 2022 - 08:37 UTC

  Argentina has too many pensioners, according to an IMF report

  

  A recent report by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has underlined the fact that Argentina has a larger proportion of citizens earning pensions when compared to other countries in the world.

• Monday, April 18th 2022 - 08:33 UTC

  Former Peruvian president hospitalized yet again

  

  Peru's prisons bureau Sunday reported former President Alberto Fujimori had been hospitalized as a precaution due to a blood pressure issue amid a recurrent heart condition.

• Saturday, April 16th 2022 - 10:08 UTC

  Uruguayan tourism full steam ahead during Easter Week

  

  Some 114,000 have crossed from Uruguay over to Argentina for Tourism Week, a lay holiday version of Easter Week between April 11 and 17. According to local media, 95,000 of them were Uruguayan nationals, followed by 11,000 Argentines and 2,000 Brazilian citizens.

• Saturday, April 16th 2022 - 10:00 UTC

  Inflation in LatAm highest in 15 years, IMF says

  

  According to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), inflation in Latin America's leading economies has reached its highest levels in 15 years. The finance agency Friday reported that these results were the consequence of the “impact on the pandemic and the war between Russia and Ukraine.”

• Thursday, April 14th 2022 - 21:00 UTC

  Colombian footballer Freddy Rincón dies aged 55

  

  Colombia's football legend Freddy Rincón died early Thursday morning at the Cali clinic where he had been taking earlier this week following a car accident. He was 55.

• Thursday, April 14th 2022 - 09:50 UTC

  Four Colombian soldiers killed by dissident FARC group

  

  Four Colombian regular soldiers were killed in a rural area of the department of Meta after they were ambushed by a group of dissidents from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), the Omega Joint Task Force said in a statement.

• Thursday, April 14th 2022 - 09:37 UTC

  Buenos Aires: EuroLat due to vote on agreed topics

  

  Argentine Vice President Cristina Fernàndez de Kirchner (CFK) welcomed to Buenos Aires' Kirchner Cultural Center (CCK) the more than 100 lawmakers who participated in this year's Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly (EuroLat) sessions under the slogan “A fair, inclusive, and peaceful economic recovery.”

• Wednesday, April 13th 2022 - 20:40 UTC

  Warrant issued for preventive arrest of Peruvian President nephews

  

  A Lima judge has ordered the preventive arrest for 36 months of two nephews of Peruvian President Pedro Castillo Terrones as well as of his former aide Bruno Pacheco for their alleged involvement in cases of corruption, it was reported.