Latin America

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.
Wednesday, April 13th 2022 - 09:30 UTC
Latin America’s New Pink Tide? Or three brands of “Left” regimes

By Jorge G. Castañeda (*) – Like the wave of leftist victories in the early 2000s following Hugo Chávez’s rise to power in Venezuela (1999-2013), the success of left-wing leaders across Latin America in recent years has been interpreted as a broader political paradigm shift. But these leaders’ substantive differences are more significant than their similarities.
Tuesday, April 12th 2022 - 10:55 UTC
Fitch Ratings believes the Lacalle Pou coalition has sufficient political capital to face challenges and much needed reforms

The ruling coalition of Uruguayan president Luis Lacalle Pou expects to use its political capital following victory in the 27 March referendum which rejected overturning a third of his government's program, enacting reforms in the second half of his five year period, according to the latest Fitch Rating report on Uruguay.
Tuesday, April 12th 2022 - 10:50 UTC
763 Uruguayans volunteered to fight for Argentina during Falklands conflict, reveals Senate bill

Senators from the Uruguayan opposition coalition Frente Amplio are sponsoring a declaration in support of Argentina and its Falkland Islands' claim, recalling at the same time that 763 Uruguayans, from a very miscellaneous background, had volunteered to join the Argentine Army during the South Atlantic conflict to combat Britain.