Latin America

• Friday, March 18th 2022 - 20:38 UTC

  Office of Medellín's Mayor launches masturbation-awareness campaign

  

  The Office of the Mayor of the Colombian city of Medellín has launched a most unusual campaign on social media to rid masturbation from the moral prejudices surrounding it.

• Friday, March 18th 2022 - 09:54 UTC

  Vaccinated travelers to be spared further testing to enter Uruguay

  

  Uruguay's Minister of Tourism Tabaré Viera has requested his Public Health colleague Daniel Salinas to review the possibility that incoming travelers fully vaccinated against COVID-19 are spared the swab test at the earliest.

• Friday, March 18th 2022 - 09:53 UTC

  Peru's Constitutional Court ruling clears path to Fujimori's release

  

  Peru's Constitutional Court Thursday upheld a Presidential pardon granted in 2017 by Pedro Pablo Kuczynski (PPK) to Alberto Fujimori, who is serving a 25-year prison sentence for crimes against humanity.

• Friday, March 18th 2022 - 09:48 UTC

  Cuban demonstrators given jail terms of 4 to 30 years

  

  Cuba's Judiciary handed down prison sentences ranging from 4 to 30 years to the July 11 demonstrators who filled the streets demanding an improvement to their living conditions, it was reported Thursday.

• Friday, March 18th 2022 - 09:00 UTC

  Nicaragua outlaws yet another 25 NGOs

  

  The Government of Nicaragua has outlawed yet another 25 Non-Government Organizations (NGOs), bringing that figure up to 87 since December of 2018, it was reported Thursday.

• Thursday, March 17th 2022 - 09:43 UTC

  Judge rules former Honduran President may be extradited to US

  

  A Honduran judge Wednesday ruled in favor of extraditing former President Juan Orlando Hernández to the United States, where he is wanted for alleged drug trafficking and illegal use of weapons.

• Wednesday, March 16th 2022 - 20:58 UTC

  South American corn seeks to offset Ukrainian supply to Europe

  

  France and Spain have requested the European Union to loosen up its requirements for the import of cereals given the current impact the war in Ukraine is having on the price of food globally, it was reported.

• Wednesday, March 16th 2022 - 09:54 UTC

  Peruvian President claims his innocence before Congress

  

  Peru's President Pedro Castillo Terrones Tuesday denied his alleged involvement in acts of corruption and denounced opposition politicians for their campaign to remove him from office.

• Wednesday, March 16th 2022 - 09:38 UTC

  Falklands celebrated its fantastic diversity on the Multicultural Day Festival

  

  The Falkland Islands celebrated last Saturday, March 12th, Multicultural Day, with massive participation from the different communities who participated in the event with a display of dance, music, food.

• 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.