Latin America

• Tuesday, May 10th 2022 - 10:19 UTC

  Two more Ecuadorian prison inmates killed

  

  The latest episode in the saga of Ecuadorian prison riots has left at least two inmates killed and five others injured at the penitentiary in Santo Domingo de Los Tsáchilas, it was reported Monday by the National Service of Integral Attention to Adults Deprived of Liberty and Adolescent Offenders.

• Tuesday, May 10th 2022 - 09:54 UTC

  LATAM restructuring plan to be tested 17 May in New York; junior creditors dissent

  

  LATAM Airlines, which filed for bankruptcy in the United States in 2020 after being hit by the coronavirus-related travel downturn, said around 65% of its low-ranking creditors had backed the restructuring plan, which it said was “fair and considered all stakeholders.”

• Tuesday, May 10th 2022 - 09:34 UTC

  Paraguayan FM, US Ambassdor to Asunción discuss security issues

  

  Paraguay's Foreign Ministry Julio César Arriola and US Ambassador Marc Ostfield Monday held a meeting in Asunción to discuss strengthening the fight against corruption, the mutual quest for security, and “promoting mutual and inclusive economic prosperity.”

• Monday, May 9th 2022 - 19:48 UTC

  Grenade attack kills 4, injures dozens at Bolivian university

  

  An attack with a gas grenade has left at least 4 people dead Monday and dozens injured at a University in the Bolivian city of Potosí, it was reported. The explosion caused a human avalanche while a student assembly was taking place at the Universidad Autónoma Tomas Frías de Potosí.

• Monday, May 9th 2022 - 19:21 UTC

  Presidents of Cuba. Mexico sign joint statement in Havana

  

  The Presidents of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel, and of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador (also known as AMLO) have signed a joint statement Sunday expressing both countries' will to strengthen bilateral ties.

• Monday, May 9th 2022 - 10:36 UTC

  Rodrigo Chaves sworn in as President of Costa Rica

  

  Despite his dubious past at the World Bank, Rodrigo Chaves has been sworn in as the new President of Costa Rica during a ceremony at the Legislative Assembly, which was attended by Spain's King Felipe VI among other dignitaries.

• Monday, May 9th 2022 - 09:55 UTC

  Puebla Group supports Caricom-sponsored boycott to Summit of the Americas

  

  Leaders of the Puebla Group have expressed their support to Caricom's petition not to be sidelined from the upcoming Summit of the Americas to be held in Los Angeles in June.

• Monday, May 9th 2022 - 09:30 UTC

  Death toll in Havana hotel blast rises to 32

  

  Cuban authorities have updated the number of victims of the Saratoga Hotel explosion in Havana raising the number of injured people to 80 and to 32 the number of deaths, according to local Red Cross sources.

• Saturday, May 7th 2022 - 10:20 UTC

  Gulf Clan lashes back at Colombian society to defend their leader

  

  Around a dozen, vehicles were burned, and businesses and schools were closed as fear gripped ordinary Colombians in various parts of the country as they came across threatening pamphlets warning of an “armed strike” by the Gulf Clan in retaliation for Otoniel's extradition.

• Saturday, May 7th 2022 - 10:18 UTC

  New lineage of Omicron variant circulating in Peru

  

  Peru's Health Ministry officials reported this week the finding of a new lineage of the SARS.CoV-2 Omicron variant called BA.1.22.