Latin America

• Sunday, October 31st 2021 - 08:52 UTC

  French President says he discussed crisis in Venezuela and Nicaragua with Alberto Fernández

  

  French President Emmanuel Macron Saturday admitted on Twitter that he had spoken with his Argentine colleague Alberto Fernández about the crisis in Venezuela and Nicaragua on the sides of the G20 Summit in Rome. The issue had not been mentioned by the Argentine government.

• Sunday, October 31st 2021 - 08:36 UTC

  President Fernández says Argentina's debt a clear example of what is wrong

  

  Argentine President Alberto Fernández Saturday underlined before the G20 Summit plenary in Rome that his country's debt with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) was “a clear example of what is wrong” in the international financial system.

• Sunday, October 31st 2021 - 08:27 UTC

  Bolsonaro keeps domestic agenda in mind while in Rome for G20 Summit

  

  Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro was harshly critical Saturday of the recent Brazilian Stock Exchange movements and said he had a Plan B in case the Lower House does not agree on budget proposals recently put forward by the Executive.

• Friday, October 29th 2021 - 23:51 UTC

  Chile: Piñera says his impeachment is politically driven

  

  Chile's President Sebastian Piñera Friday downplayed through his legal team a motion for his impeachment on the grounds that -in his view- it was all “an ostensible political-electoral maneuver” based on “manifestly false” facts which were revealed in the so-called Pandora Papers report.

• Friday, October 29th 2021 - 20:21 UTC

  Bolsonaro loyalist want to make him Senator for life

  

  As charges to be filed against Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro get increasingly threatening, political allies of the head of state are said to be looking for ways to shield him from a possible conviction.

• Friday, October 29th 2021 - 10:56 UTC

  ICC praises Colombia´s determination for justice, accountability and peace

  

  The Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court Karim Khan on a visit to Colombia and Venezuela, on Thursday in Bogotá concluded a Cooperation Agreement with the Government of Colombia, which renews the commitment of the Office to Colombia's national accountability processes.

• Friday, October 29th 2021 - 09:49 UTC

  Chile: 60% of people in favour of impeaching Piñera over Pandora Papers

  

  An Ipsos survey released Thursday has shown that 60% of Chileans were in favour of launching the impeachment process against President Sebastián Piñera for the obscure deals for which his name ended up included in the so-called Pandora Papers investigations.

• Thursday, October 28th 2021 - 21:59 UTC

  Seven LatAm countries to be removed from UK's travel red list

  

  The United Kingdom's Departments for Transport and of Health and Social Care Thursday issued a joint press release announcing that the seven countries still on the travel red list, all of them from Latin America, would be removed from it shortly.

• Wednesday, October 27th 2021 - 23:43 UTC

  Indigenous groups in Ecuador stage second day of protests

  

  Groups of native Ecuadorians Wednesday staged their second straight day of protests against the government of conservative President Guillermo Lasso barely six months into his term in office.

• Wednesday, October 27th 2021 - 09:50 UTC

  Desperate Nicaraguans go to Honduras to get COVID-19 shots

  

  Citizens of Nicaragua, which according to the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) ranks among the six countries in the region with the lowest vaccination rates, have been crossing over the border to neighbouring Honduras even on horseback and in rafts to receive a COVID-19 immunizer, it was reported.