Latin America

• Tuesday, March 15th 2022 - 20:00 UTC

  Puerto Rico formally out of bankruptcy

  

  The Government of Puerto Rico Tuesday announced the largest public debt restructuring in US history, thanks to which the island has formally managed to avoid bankruptcy after a debt of US$ 70 billion seven years ago was beyond its repayment capacity.

• Tuesday, March 15th 2022 - 09:50 UTC

  Mercosur and associate members want fertilizers off Russia's sanctions list

  

  Mercosur country members plus associate Chile and Bolivia (in the process of joining the block) want fertilizers excluded from the list of sanctions on Russia, according to Brazilian Agriculture minister Tereza Cristina da Costa Dias.

• Tuesday, March 15th 2022 - 09:38 UTC

  Ecuadorian banana producers seek declaration of emergency

  

  Ecuadorian banana producers in the coastal provinces of Guayas, Los Rios, and El Oro, have staged road blockades demanding the government to step in and purchase the surplus resulting from Russia's military operation in Ukraine.

• Tuesday, March 15th 2022 - 09:32 UTC

  Peru's Parliament to debate impeaching President Castillo, yet again

  

  Peru's Congress Monday passed by 76 voted in favor, 41 against, and one abstention a motion to debate the impeachment of President Pedro Castillo Terrones for “permanent moral unfitness” to hold office.

• Tuesday, March 15th 2022 - 09:29 UTC

  Arrest warrant issued in Argentina against Diosdado Cabello

  

  Argentine surrogate Judge Mariela Alejandra Giménez has issued an arrest warrant against Venezuela's Government leader Diosdado Cabello, number two of the ruling PSUV, should he try to enter the country. Authorities believe Cabello might try to travel through the northern border in the province of Jujuy.

• Tuesday, March 15th 2022 - 09:21 UTC

  Mercociudades launches ambitious agenda in Montevideo

  

  An international meeting in Montevideo of municipal authorities from cities all over Latin America has come up last week with a large list of conclusions and recommendations for the times to come and an agenda with more than fifty events to be held in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Peru, Paraguay, and Uruguay.

• Tuesday, March 15th 2022 - 09:15 UTC

  Former Peruvian President back in jail after hospital discharge

  

  Alberto Fujimori has been discharged Monday from the private Lima clinic where he had been taken to earlier this month due to a heart failure and was subsequently taken back to jail, his daughter and opposition leader Keiko Fujimori announced.

• Monday, March 14th 2022 - 20:27 UTC

  Puebla Group supports Argentina's agreement with the IMF

  

  World leaders gathered under the Puebla Group have expressed their support to Argentine President Alberto Fernández for the deal reached with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and for its “overwhelming approval in Congress.”

• Monday, March 14th 2022 - 20:19 UTC

  Boric would like Chile to resume full ties with Bolivia

  

  Chile's President Gabriel Boric Font Monday urged his Bolivian counterpart Luis Arce Catacora to resume diplomatic ties, which were severed in the 1970s.

• Monday, March 14th 2022 - 09:54 UTC

  Colombia turns to the left in historic vote

  

  Colombian voters have taken a turn for the left following Sunday's historic support for Senator Gustavo Petro, who has been singled out in recent polls as the favorite to win the May 29 presidential elections.