Latin America

• Thursday, July 1st 2021 - 09:47 UTC

  Mega petition for Bolsonaro's impeachment filed before Brazilian Congress

  

  A request to impeach President Jair Bolsonaro was submitted Wednesday into Brazil's House of Deputies by opposition political parties, social movements and organizations.

• Wednesday, June 30th 2021 - 09:50 UTC

  Yet another setback for Keiko Fujimori's legal effort to become President of Peru

  

  Peru's National Elections Jury (JNE) Tuesday found seven additional appeals from conservative candidate Keiko Fujimori against the outcome of June 6's presidential elections to be unfounded.

• Wednesday, June 30th 2021 - 09:30 UTC

  Rio de Janeiro allows pregnant women to mix one dose of Pfizer with one of AstraZeneca vaccines

  

  Health authorities in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro announced Tuesday that they had approved combination doses of Pfizer and AstraZeneca anticoronavirus vaccines on pregnant women.

• Wednesday, June 30th 2021 - 09:13 UTC

  Floods and droughts mean yearly losses worth US $ 1 billion for Argentina, says World Bank

  

  A new report titled “Impact of Climate Crisis on Poverty and the Argentine macroeconomy” points out the serious consequences of the impact of climate change on the Argentine economy, mainly due to losses caused by floods and droughts, the World Bank announced Tuesday.

• Wednesday, June 30th 2021 - 09:09 UTC

  Argentina's economy keeps falling, INDEC data shows

  

  Economic activity in Argentina fell 1.2% monthly in April and accumulated three months of decline, according to data released Tuesday by the National Institute of Statistics and Census (INDEC).

• Wednesday, June 30th 2021 - 09:00 UTC

  Low flying fighter jets over Ushuaia in mid afternoon

  

  Monday mid-afternoon Argentine air force fighter planes overflew Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego province capital and the Beagle Channel, as part of training exercises in Patagonia and which are expected to continue for the next two days. The Fighting Hawk McDonald Douglas A-4R jets are based in Rio Gallegos, Santa Cruz province.

• Tuesday, June 29th 2021 - 09:21 UTC

  Biden calls Duque to make sure Colombia remains US top ally in the region

  

  US President Joseph Biden Monday telephoned his Colombian colleague Iván Duque in what the first direct talk between the two leaders since the 78-year-old Democrat took office on January 20.1

• Tuesday, June 29th 2021 - 07:18 UTC

  Eastern lifts Guayaquil route from Miami but JetBlue adds flights from New York

  

  US carrier Eastern Airlines, which started the nonstop Miami-Montevideo route just last week, has announced that as of July it will be lifting flights to Guayaquil until further notice.

• Monday, June 28th 2021 - 09:20 UTC

  Tierra del Fuego plans to vote a bill banning salmon farming in the province's waters

  

  The Argentine province of Tierra del Fuego will be voting a bill on Wednesday to ban salmon farming in the waters of the extreme south territory, according to reports in the Ushuaia media.

• Monday, June 28th 2021 - 08:49 UTC

  Colombian Government offers reward to capture shooters of presidential helicopter

  

  The Government of Colombia has offered a US $ 795,000 reward in exchange for information leading to the capture of those behind the shooting of President Ivan's Duque helicopter last week.