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Montevideo, October 20th 2025 - 14:49 UTC

Latin America

  • Saturday, August 16th 2025 - 10:14 UTC

    Peru: Boluarte enacts pardon for human rights violations between 1980 and 2000

    Boluarte argues that the measure recognized the State's fight against terrorism

    Despite requests from the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and other international bodies, Peruvian President Dina Boluarte has enacted a controversial amnesty law, granting amnesty to military personnel, police officers, and civilians accused or convicted of human rights violations between 1980 and 2000.

  • Saturday, August 16th 2025 - 10:06 UTC

    Belt and Road Initiative: Colombia and China sign key trade deal

    “We are creating the framework for a work plan that will allow us to combine our efforts,” Rusinque explained

    Colombia's Superintendency of Industry and Commerce (SIC) and China's State Administration for Market Regulation signed a memorandum of understanding to strengthen trade cooperation and advance the South American country's participation in the “Belt and Road Initiative” (also known as the “Silk Road”).

  • Friday, August 15th 2025 - 12:40 UTC

    Ecuador declares Cártel de los Solas a terrorist group

    Noboa has ordered Ecuador's National Intelligence Center to analyze the group's influence within his country's criminal gangs

    Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa officially declared the “Cartel de los Soles” a terrorist group. Noboa's decree on Thursday aligns with a similar designation made by the US Republican administration of President Donald Trump in July.

  • Thursday, August 14th 2025 - 10:27 UTC

    Former Peruvian President Vizcarra placed under preventive arrest

    Vizcarra is under investigation for allegedly receiving bribes as governor of Moquegua between 2011 and 2014

    Peru's Seventh National Preliminary Investigation Court ordered five months of preventive detention for former President Martín Vizcarra (2018-2020) on charges of passive bribery. In his ruling, Judge Jorge Chávez Tamariz cited procedural and flight risks, ordering the sentence to be enforced immediately.

  • Thursday, August 14th 2025 - 08:50 UTC

    Border incidents escalate diplomatic crisis between Colombia and Peru

    Daniel Quintero, former mayor of Medellín and ally of President Petro, released a video raising the Colombian flag in territory claimed by Peru

    Tensions between Colombia and Peru have risen following a series of incidents in the disputed area of Santa Rosa de Loreto, on the Amazon River. The latest occurred on Monday, when former Medellín mayor and presidential hopeful Daniel Quintero raised the Colombian flag on Chinería Island, territory under Peruvian control. “There is no way I will let Peru take the Amazon River from us… homeland or death,” he declared in a video posted on social media.

  • Tuesday, August 12th 2025 - 09:55 UTC

    Paraguay's Lower House gives nod to Mercosur-Singapore FTA

    This agreement provides strategic access to the large Asian market, Latorre argued

    Paraguay's Lower House on Monday approved the Free Trade Agreement between the South American Common Market (Mercosur) and Singapore signed in December 2023 in Rio de Janeiro. The deal had already been approved by the Senate. The understanding seeks to increase accessibility and transparency for businesses engaging in electronic transactions and public procurement.

  • Monday, August 11th 2025 - 12:58 UTC

    Colombian Senator Uribe Turbay dies, aged 39

    Uribe Turbay belonged to a family with a long and tragic history in Colombian politics

    Colombian Senator and presidential hopeful Miguel Uribe Turbay died early Monday as a result of the gunshots he received during a political rally on June 7, for which he had been hospitalized since.

  • Monday, August 11th 2025 - 10:05 UTC

    Three-month state of emergency declared in parts of Haiti

    Over 1,000 people have been killed and 620 kidnapped between October 2024 and the end of June 2025

    Haiti's government has declared a three-month state of emergency in the West, Artibonite, and Centre departments to address a surge in gang violence and the resulting food crisis. This measure is intended to mobilize state resources more effectively to restore order and security.

  • Monday, August 11th 2025 - 10:05 UTC

    Armed attack leaves 8 dead in Ecuador

    One of the victims was the brother of the town's mayor

    An armed attack outside a nightclub in Santa Lucía on Sunday morning, a town in Ecuador's Guayas province, left eight people (seven men and one woman) dead and several others injured. The victims included nightclub owner Jorge Urquizo, the brother of the town's mayor, Ubaldo Urquizo.

  • Saturday, August 9th 2025 - 10:18 UTC

    Haiti's Presidential Transition Council has new president

    Saint-Cyr is expected to be the last CPT president before the elections scheduled for February 7, 2026

    Haitian businessman Laurent Saint-Cyr has been appointed as the new rotating president of Haiti's Presidential Transition Council (CPT), a body formed after the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse. Saint-Cyr is tasked with restoring security, leading the country toward new elections, and reviving the economy.