Latin America

• Wednesday, April 3rd 2024 - 10:00 UTC

  Haitian authorities fend off yet another attack against Gov't Palace

  

  Five Haitian law enforcement officers were wounded while fending off an onslaught from Jimmy “Barbecue” Cherizier's Vivre Ensemble (Living Together) gang against the Government Palace in Port-au-Prince on Monday. According to local media, there were various casualties on the attackers' side, but the number remained undetermined.

• Tuesday, April 2nd 2024 - 09:52 UTC

  Peru: Boluarte reshuffles cabinet ahead of congressional vote of confidence

  

  As signatures continue to be collected in Congress to impeach her over the Rolex watch scandal, Peruvian President Dina Boluarte was forced to make a snap cabinet reshuffle.

• Monday, April 1st 2024 - 19:05 UTC

  Ties between Argentina and Colombia getting back to normal

  

  Diplomatic authorities of Argentina and Colombia have taken “concrete steps” to overcome their government's “differences” and restore ties between both countries to normal following the engagement in reciprocal diatribes on TV and on social media by Presidents Gustavo Petro and Javier Milei.

• Monday, April 1st 2024 - 10:35 UTC

  Peruvian President targeted in corruption scandal over pricy watches

  

  President Dina Boluarte's home in the Lima district of Surquillo was raided late Friday by the Police who went on to the Executive Branch's headquarters in the early hours of Saturday to carry out a search-and-size warrant granted by a Supreme Court magistrate to Attorney General Juan Villena.

• Saturday, March 30th 2024 - 11:24 UTC

  No diplomatic rift between Argentina and Mexico despite verbal clash between Milei and AMLO

  

  Foreign Ministries Diana Mondino of Argentina and Alicia Bárcena of Mexico held a telephone conversation Friday during which they concurred that the recent exchange of epithets between Presidents Javier Milei and Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) did not jeopardize the two countries' diplomatic relations, which they agreed to label as “solid.” Bárcena and Mondino thus made it clear that neither nation intended to escalate the dispute.

• Saturday, March 30th 2024 - 11:14 UTC

  Over-the-counter dietary supplement kills at least 5 in Japan

  

  At a time when the spread of dengue fever in South America -particularly in Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay- led the region to seek the Japanese-developed Qdenga vaccine from the Takeda laboratories to tackle the disease, the case of at least five dead and over 100 hospitalized in the Asian insular nation after taking cholesterol-lowering red yeast rice dietary supplements did not go unnoticed.

• Saturday, March 30th 2024 - 09:58 UTC

  Unusual criticism from Lula da Silva and Petro on Venezuela's presidential race controversy

  

  Renowned South American political figures Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, President of Brazil, and Gustavo Petro, head of state of Colombia, have taken an unusual stance against Venezuela's government, criticizing its refusal to allow opposition candidate Corina Yoris to register for the upcoming presidential elections.

• Friday, March 29th 2024 - 10:43 UTC

  Petro and AMLO describe Milei in not-quite-friendly words

  

  After derogatory remarks against them from Argentina's Javier Milei, Presidents Gustavo Petro of Colombia and Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) of Mexico also had their say Thursday.

• Friday, March 29th 2024 - 10:04 UTC

  PAHO: Historic dengue outbreak to hit mainly Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay

  

  According to the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), Latin America is looking ahead at the worst dengue season in history, mainly due to the global increase in temperatures and extreme weather. The worst scenario is likely to occur in Brazil, Argentina, and Paraguay.

• Thursday, March 28th 2024 - 11:59 UTC

  Colombia expels Argentina's diplomatic mission over Milei statements against Petro

  

  Gustavo Petro ordered all of Argentina's diplomatic staff in Colombia expelled after derogatory remarks against him by fellow President Javier Milei during an interview with CNN. The Libertarian leader called him a “murderer, terrorist,” given his past as a M-19 guerrilla fighter. Colombia also withdrew its Ambassador from Buenos Aires.