Latin America

• Tuesday, September 14th 2021 - 09:01 UTC

  Uruguayan government warns border municipalities that reopening of border crossings with Argentina will take two months

  

  Uruguayan federal authorities Monday conveyed to mayors of Salto (Andrés Lima), Paysandú (Nicolás Olivera) and Río Negro (Omar Lafluf) that the reopening of land crossings with Argentina will take at least two more months.

• Tuesday, September 14th 2021 - 08:50 UTC

  Paraguayan Ambassador in Cuba dies of COVID-19

  

  Paraguay's Ambassador to Cuba Bernardino Cano Radil has died Sunday of COVID-19 in Havanna, it was reported. He was 65.

• Monday, September 13th 2021 - 08:29 UTC

  Arrests, protests and looting in Santiago on the anniversary of the military coup

  

  Some eleven people were arrested in Chile following the rioting and looting in Santiago on the 48th anniversary of the military coup led by General Augusto Pinochet that in September 1973 overthrew the government of democratically elected Socialist president Salvador Allende.

• Monday, September 13th 2021 - 08:19 UTC

  Australian intelligence worked with the CIA in the Chilean coup of 1973

  

  Australia was involved in espionage operations in Chile during the seventies, in support of the United States CIA agency activities conspiring against the democratically elected government of Socialist Salvador Allende, ousted by the military 48 years ago.

• Sunday, September 12th 2021 - 08:05 UTC

  Former Peruvian guerrilla leader Abimael Guzmán dies aged 86

  

  Abimael Guzmán, former leader and founder of the infamous guerrilla movement Shining Path (Sendero Luminoso) which has left some 69,000 people dead, has died Saturday in prison. He was 86.

• Saturday, September 11th 2021 - 10:16 UTC

  Azul returning to Uruguay in November from Porto Alegre

  

  Brazilian carrier Azul will resume flights to Uruguay as of November 10 with the reopening of the Porto Alegre-Montevideo route four times a week.

• Saturday, September 11th 2021 - 09:37 UTC

  Ex Bolivian police chief jailed for 2019 deaths prosecutors first chose not to investigate

  

  Former Bolivian Police chief Javier Fuad Vaca has been placed under preventive arrest Friday for his alleged involvement in crimes during the 2019 uprising which resulted in the overthrowing of President Evo Morales.

• Saturday, September 11th 2021 - 08:49 UTC

  Chilean Port of Arica to demand advance collection of Bolivian import charges after August's fees unpaid

  

  The Chilean port of Arica has announced it would seek to collect Septermber's dues in advance for Bolivian imports after that country's Port Services Administration (ASP-B) warned it would not be paying for services used during August.

• Friday, September 10th 2021 - 09:27 UTC

  Nicaraguan Prosecution now after former Ortega's second-in-command

  

  The Nicaraguan Prosecutor's Office has obtained an arrest warrant against former Vice President Sergio Ramírez Mercado for “inciting acts of violence,” it was reported.

• Friday, September 10th 2021 - 09:08 UTC

  Chile's President meets Argentina-born Pope; no comments about the latest territorial dispute

  

  Chile's President Sebastián Piñera Thursday met with Pope Francis at The Vatican during one of his stops on his current European tour.