Latin America

• Friday, August 21st 2026 - 10:12 UTC

  Montevideo hosts a progressive congress after three consecutive electoral defeats in the region

  

  More than a hundred lawmakers, former presidents, ministers and political figures from fifteen countries across the Americas gather from Friday at Uruguay's Legislative Palace in Montevideo for the third Pan-American Congress, a parliamentary forum of progressive forces running until Sunday. Organisers put attendance at more than 150 participants.

• Friday, August 21st 2026 - 10:10 UTC

  Bolivian prosecutors open a second case against the consultant who advised Milei and Paz

  

  Prosecutors in La Paz have opened an investigation on their own initiative into alleged illicit enrichment by Argentine political consultant Fernando Cerimedo, who was charged this week in Santa Cruz with attempted femicide following the shooting of his former partner, lawyer Nadia Beller.

• Wednesday, August 19th 2026 - 09:52 UTC

  An Argentine consultant who advised Milei's campaign detained in Bolivia after a shooting

  

  Bolivian police detained Argentine political consultant Fernando Cerimedo in the early hours of Tuesday at Viru Viru international airport in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, hours after his former partner, Bolivian lawyer Nadia Beller, was shot three times outside a hotel in the city. Cerimedo has not been formally charged and his involvement in the attack, which remains under investigation, has not been established.

• Tuesday, August 18th 2026 - 06:38 UTC

  Colombia's president hands out branded footballs in an earthquake-hit port city

  

  Colombian President Abelardo de la Espriella was filmed on Sunday throwing footballs to children on a street in Buenaventura, the country's main Pacific port and one of the places worst affected by the magnitude 7.4 earthquake of August 10. The balls carried the logo of Defensores de la Patria, the political movement that brought him to the presidency eleven days ago.

• Monday, August 17th 2026 - 09:25 UTC

  Cali closes the rescue phase after 140 hours and moves to clearing rubble

  

  Authorities in Cali declared the search and rescue phase over a week after the magnitude 7.4 earthquake that struck western Colombia, following more than 140 hours of continuous operations. Teams deployed in the capital of Valle del Cauca department are now focused on recovering the last bodies located and on removing rubble.

• Sunday, August 16th 2026 - 07:40 UTC

  Colombia asks Washington to suspend 12.5% tariffs over the earthquake emergency

  

  Colombian President Abelardo de la Espriella on Saturday asked his US counterpart, Donald Trump, to temporarily suspend tariffs on Colombian goods, arguing this would give exporters relief as the country faces the economic consequences of Monday's magnitude 7.4 earthquake.

• Saturday, August 15th 2026 - 06:08 UTC

  Colombia: De la Espriella calls the situation in Pereira “apocalyptic” after touring the city

  

  Colombian President Abelardo de la Espriella on Friday described the situation in Pereira, capital of Risaralda department and one of the places worst hit by Monday's magnitude 7.4 earthquake in the west and center of the country, as “apocalyptic.”

• Friday, August 14th 2026 - 22:34 UTC

  Peru rehearses its response to a magnitude 8.8 quake off Lima and Callao

  

  Peru held the year's second national multi-hazard drill on Friday, an exercise testing evacuation protocols and the response capacity of the public and the authorities to a possible magnitude 8.8 earthquake centered off the central coast of Lima and Callao.

• Thursday, August 13th 2026 - 22:31 UTC

  Colombia faces reconstruction with 96% of the year's debt quota already used

  

  Colombian President Abelardo de la Espriella declared an economic emergency on Wednesday to address the consequences of Monday's magnitude 7.4 earthquake in the west of the country, against a backdrop of fiscal constraints that will shape how reconstruction is financed.

• Thursday, August 13th 2026 - 06:55 UTC

  The main land crossing between Argentina and Chile passes its winter closure record

  

  The Cristo Redentor international crossing, which links the Argentine province of Mendoza with Chile's Valparaíso Region through the Andes, has now been closed for close to a month because of a snow and wind storm, surpassing the winter closure record set in 2023. Authorities on both sides estimate it could reopen next week, depending on weather conditions.