Latin America

• Friday, December 3rd 2021 - 09:12 UTC

  Argentine Health Pass to be ready “next week,” minister says

  

  Argentina's Health Minister Carla Vizzotti Thursday announced the Government's Health Pass will be ready next week. The permit, which will ban those who lack it from accessing certain activities, is regarded as an incentive for people to take their COVID-19 vaccines.

• Friday, December 3rd 2021 - 09:04 UTC

  OAS Chief says Peruvian President determined to fight corruption

  

  Organization of American States (OAS) Secretary-General Luis Almagro Thursday said in Lima that President Pedro Castillo was determined “to fight corruption”

• Thursday, December 2nd 2021 - 19:10 UTC

  Amnesty International warns against increasing child pregnancies in Paraguay

  

  Amnesty International (AI) Wednesday launched an alert in the light of an increasing number of child pregnancies all across Paraguay, which has reached “epidemic” levels, it was reported.

• 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.”