Latin America

• Thursday, June 10th 2021 - 08:42 UTC

  Vaccination for teenagers aged 17 to 12 starts in Uruguay

  

  Uruguay Wednesday became the first country in Latin America to extend its anticovid-19 vaccination campaign to children aged between 12 and 17, it was announced.

• Wednesday, June 9th 2021 - 10:14 UTC

  Peru: After over 99% of votes counted, Castillo's narrow win looks imminent, but Fujimori cries there was fraud

  

  Leftwing candidate Pedro Castillo of the Peru Libre party was leading conservative Keiko Fujimori of Fuerza Popular by 50.253% against 49.747% with 99.282% of the votes counted, according to the National Office of Electoral Processes (ONPE) by Wednesday dawn. However, Castillo already addressed his supporters from the balcony of his party's headquarters in Lima and declared himself the winner, ahead of the official count.

• Wednesday, June 9th 2021 - 09:48 UTC

  UN concerned over deportation of 56 Venezuelan migrants from Chile

  

  The United Nations (UN) Tuesday voiced their concern about Sunday's deportation of 56 Venezuelan migrants from Chile despite legal actions taken against such a measure.

• Wednesday, June 9th 2021 - 09:25 UTC

  No mandatory jab for Copa America players in Brazil

  

  Brazil's Health Minister Marcelo Queiroga Monday announced players taking part in the upcoming Copa América shall not be required to be vaccinated, contrary to what had been announced last week.

• Wednesday, June 9th 2021 - 08:30 UTC

  Kamala Harris tackles migration on Guatemala, Mexico tour

  

  US Vice President Kamala Harris rounded up her first official foreign mission in Mexico City by underlining the need to tackle the “root causes” of migration as crowds at the southwestern border grow by the hour.

• Tuesday, June 8th 2021 - 09:04 UTC

  Chile continues with deportation of Venezuelan migrants

  

  The Government of Chile has deported on a plane to Caracas a total of 56 Venezuelan citizens who were allegedly involved in trafficking of minors, drugs, robberies or simply entered the country irregularly, it was reported.

• Tuesday, June 8th 2021 - 07:15 UTC

  AMLO loses legislative majority in Mexican Lower House

  

  Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador's (AMLO) centre-left ruling National Regeneration Movement (Morena) which lost the qualified majority in the Lower House after Sunday's elections.

• Monday, June 7th 2021 - 09:55 UTC

  Peru: Fujimori slightly ahead but too soon to celebrate – exit polls show otherwise

  

  Conservative candidate Keiko Fujimori was slightly ahead of leftist Pedro Castillo Monday dawn as provisional results of Peru's presidential runoff were being announced by the National Office of Electoral Processes (ONPE).

• Monday, June 7th 2021 - 09:14 UTC

  US VP Harris on Latin America mission to deal with migrants' crisis

  

  Vice President Kamala Harris left Washington Sunday aboard on an official tour to Guatemala and Mexico to deal with the crisis involving migrants going through those countries as well as through Honduras and El Salvador on their way to an illegal entry into the United States.

• Monday, June 7th 2021 - 09:11 UTC

  Ballet performance marks pilot trial of Uruguayan green pass

  

  Uruguayan authorities held a pilot test of the “green pass” with an event at Montevideo's Sodre auditorium Saturday evening.