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Montevideo, April 5th 2025 - 08:13 UTC

Latin America

  • Monday, April 10th 2023 - 10:16 UTC

    Petro OK with meeting former paramilitary leaders

    Petro still wants millions of Colombians to organize themselves to achieve total peace

    Colombian President Gustavo Petro Sunday said he was willing to meet with former paramilitary leaders to discuss the peace process. The head of state, a former guerrilla fighter himself, insisted that those who have served their sentences and who have publicly expressed their willingness to meet should explain “to what extent” the “peace process ... can be finished and finalized.”

  • Monday, April 10th 2023 - 10:08 UTC

    Covid-19 cases on the rise in Peru

    “It is necessary and essential to sustain preventive measures such as vaccination,” Gutiérrez said

    Peruvian health authorities are detecting a surge in the number of cases of Covid-19 nationwide. Health Minister Rosa Gutiérrez told reporters that the increase had been focused on Lima and in the northern parts of the country.

  • Saturday, April 8th 2023 - 10:11 UTC

    Uruguay's Health Minister worried about travelers bringing home dengue

    “We have to take care of ourselves,” Rando said

    Uruguayan health authorities have issued a series of recommendations to nationals of the South American country traveling abroad, particularly to Argentina, for the Easter Weekend due to a surge in the number of dengue cases detected in the neighboring nation. Health Minister Karina Rando stressed that those returning from that country and from Brazil should be attentive to possible symptoms for 10 or 12 days.

  • Friday, April 7th 2023 - 10:07 UTC

    New ICJ ruling against Venezuela in Essequibo case

    “Guyana is confident that the court will uphold its long-standing international boundary with Venezuela,” Guyanese President Irfaan Ali said

    The Venezuelan administration of President Nicolás Maduro was dealt another international setback Thursday when the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Thursday turned down new objections filed by Caracas regarding the territorial dispute with Guyana over the oil-rich Essequibo.

  • Thursday, April 6th 2023 - 16:21 UTC

    Argentina officially rejoins Unasur to play a leading role in its “revitalization”

    Fernández announced on March the return to Unasur. When Macri's government left the bloc, it alleged that the organization was plunged into a crisis due to an “agenda with a high ideological content”

    Argentina made official its return to the Union of South American Nations (Unasur), founded in 2009 and from which it had left in 2019, to “promote its institutional revitalization and build an increasingly integrated region,” official sources said Thursday.

  • Thursday, April 6th 2023 - 14:28 UTC

    Reversing Latin America’s Democratic Decay, the proliferation of “hybrid regimes”

    Chile, Costa Rica, and Uruguay, these are the only three Latin American countries that the EIU does not label “hybrid regimes,” “authoritarian regimes,” or “flawed democracies.”

    By Jorge G Castañeda and Carlos Ominami (*), NEW YORK – The best way to safeguard democracy in Latin America is to build strong welfare states. But since this is a medium- to long-term project, meeting the short-term threat of authoritarian populism will require more immediate solutions.

  • Thursday, April 6th 2023 - 10:55 UTC

    Presidents Fernández and Boric discuss regional agenda

    Meetings between presidents create complicity and affection, Boric told Fernández

    Argentine President Alberto Fernández and his Chilean colleague Gabriel Boric discussed Wednesday in Santiago issues of bilateral and regional interest during an encounter to celebrate the 205h anniversary of the so-called Abrazo de Maipú (Maipú hug) between independence heroes José de San Martín and Bernardo O'Higgins.

  • Thursday, April 6th 2023 - 10:02 UTC

    Arrest of former Peruvian President Toledo ordered

    Toledo is looking at a spell at Lima's Barbadillo prison alongside former colleagues Alberto Fujimori and Pedro Castillo

    A US judge Wednesday ordered the arrest of former Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo Manrique, who is said to have received millions of dollars in bribes in exchange for awarding works to the Brazilian company Odebrecht. The Court revoked Toledo's parole and ruled him taken into custody to proceed with his extradition to his country, where he faces charges of corruption.

  • Wednesday, April 5th 2023 - 09:13 UTC

    Peru: Motion to impeach Boluarte fails to get through Congress

    Boluarte said the motion to impeach was an “obscure political maneuver”

    Peru's one-house Congress Tuesday dismissed a motion to impeach President Dina Boluarte for “moral incapacity” by 64 votes to 37, and 10 abstentions. A reconsideration mooted immediately afterward was also rejected by 67 votes to 34 and, again, 10 abstentions. In view of these results, Congress Speaker José Williams ordered the case shelved.

  • Tuesday, April 4th 2023 - 09:13 UTC

    No statute of limitations wanted for Brazilian enslavers

    Aras insisted there were cases such as racism where a statute of limitations does not apply

    Brazil's Attorney General Augusto Aras Monday filed a request before the Supreme Federal Court (STF) to make the crime of “labor analogous to slavery” uneligible for a statute of limitations, which is a constitutional guarantee for defendants, but it is not absolute.