Latin America

• Thursday, December 2nd 2021 - 09:52 UTC

  Mercury has catastrophic consequences on Bolivian indigenous peoples, UN experts say

  

  United Nations specialists have sent the Bolivian Government a “Letter of Allegations” after finding irregularities resulting from the unauthorized use of mercury which has brought up environmental and human rights consequences, it was reported Wednesday.

• Thursday, December 2nd 2021 - 09:50 UTC

  Chile's Lower House votes against legalizing abortion

  

  Chile's Lower House Tuesday turned down a bill to decriminalize abortion up to the 14th week of pregnancy by 65 votes against, 62 in favor and one abstention. Thus the initiative will be shelved.

• Thursday, December 2nd 2021 - 09:40 UTC

  Fernandez and Bolsonaro seal close relations in the Day of Argentine/Brazilian Friendship

  

  In anticipation of the coming Mercosur presidential summit, 16/17 December when Argentina will hand the rotating chair of the group to Brazil, and celebrate the 36th anniversary of the signing of the Foz de Iguazu Declaration, which set the foundations for Mercosur, big reception for some 300 guests was held at the Argentine embassy in Brasilia.

• Thursday, December 2nd 2021 - 09:32 UTC

  Peru highlights OAS' role defending democracy in the region

  

  Peru's Foreign Minister Óscar Maúrtua and Organization of American States (OAS) Secretary-General Luis Almagro Wednesday signed bilateral agreements at Lima's Torre Tagle Palace.

• Wednesday, December 1st 2021 - 09:53 UTC

  Brazil reports first two cases of Omicron Covid-19 variant

  

  Brazil's National Health Surveillance Agency (Anvisa) Tuesday reported having detected the first two local cases of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus, which are also the first two infections of this kind in the entire South American continent.

• Wednesday, December 1st 2021 - 09:46 UTC

  Famine takes a grip of Latin America and the Caribbean

  

  A United Nations official from the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Tuesday announced famine in Latin America and the Caribbean had increased at a higher rate compared to other regions in the world during the COVID-19 pandemic.

• Tuesday, November 30th 2021 - 09:58 UTC

  Uruguay's strategy against Omicron is to just be alert, President says

  

  Uruguayan President Luis Lacalle Pou Monday said his Government had no specific strategy against the Omicron strain of the coronavirus, other than “being alert.”

• Tuesday, November 30th 2021 - 09:14 UTC

  Argentine 2022 diplomatic strategy: promoting “Malvinas Support Groups” world wide

  

  Argentina's Antarctica and South Atlantic Islands Affairs Secretary, Guillermo Carmona was recently in Peru to prop support for the campaign planned to reinstate the Falklands/Malvinas dispute top of the country's international agenda, in coincidence with the 40th anniversary of the 1982 conflict that followed Argentina's invasion of the Islands.

• Monday, November 29th 2021 - 19:18 UTC

  LATAM Airlines plunges at Santiago stock exchange

  

  Latam Airlines stock plunges over 80% at the Santiago market after a reshaping plan was announced, one which evaporated the value of current shares. The proposal is yet to be voted on by creditors between January and February 2022.

• Monday, November 29th 2021 - 12:22 UTC

  Honduras about to have first woman president; LatAm takes turn to the left

  

  Chavist candidate Xiomara Castro seemed on track Monday morning to become the first female president of Honduras after 38.94% of the votes had been counted. Castro, a former first lady whose husband Manuel Zelaya was ousted by a coup in 2009, had obtained 53.44% of the votes, according to the National Electoral Council (CNE), after Sunday's elections.