Latin America

• Thursday, September 16th 2021 - 09:45 UTC

  Ortega leads Nicaragua towards authoritarianism, says Blinken

  

  US Secretary of State Antony Blinken Wednesday said Nicaraguan President and former guerrilla leader Daniel Ortega was leading the Central American country “down the dark path of authoritarianism,” as most political opponents are arrested or charged with treason.

• Thursday, September 16th 2021 - 09:35 UTC

  Brazil’s STF suspends revisiting case involving ancestral lands

  

  Brazil's Federal Superior Court (STF) Wednesday decided to call off debating a land case which involves requests from indigenous groups, at the request of one Justice, who asked for “more time”

• Thursday, September 16th 2021 - 09:25 UTC

  IDB President sees a plethora of opportunities ahead in Uruguay

  

  “Uruguay could be a Silicon Valley of the south”, said Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) President Mauricio Claver-Carone Wednesday after meeting in Montevideo with President Luis Lacalle Pou.

• Wednesday, September 15th 2021 - 09:40 UTC

  Maduro appoints jailed ally, with pending extradition to US, to political talks with the opposition in Mexico

  

  Venezuela has announced that it will incorporate the government delegation in negotiations with the political opposition in Mexico, Alex Saab, a close ally jailed in Cape Verde, Africa who is to be extradited to the United States on corruption and money laundering charges.

• Wednesday, September 15th 2021 - 09:34 UTC

  Argentine government said to be eyeing injecting pesos into the market to bounce back from electoral loss

  

  The Frente de Todos coalition ruling Argentina is said to be going through an internal crisis following last Sunday's results at the Mandatory, Simultaneous and Open Primary (PASO) elections where it lost some 4.8 million votes nationwide from when Alberto Fernández was chosen to the presidency two years ago.

• 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.