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Montevideo, October 30th 2025 - 21:12 UTC

Latin America

  • Monday, June 26th 2023 - 09:08 UTC

    At least 31 arrested in controversial Guatemalan elections

    Sandra Torres is forecast to win Sunday's first round but eventually lose the runoff

    At least 31 people were arrested Sunday during Guatemala's presidential elections, which have left no winning candidate and hence the need to hold a runoff in August, according to preliminary reports.

  • Saturday, June 24th 2023 - 10:53 UTC

    Paraná Waterway: Brazil, Uruguay and Bolivia back Paraguay

    Argentina's toll was found to be “notoriously excessive” and detrimental to many of the country's interests

    Brazil, Uruguay, and Bolivia Friday supported Paraguay's stance regarding Argentina's decision to charge tolls to barges sailing through the “Port of Santa Fe-Confluencia” section of the Parana River, it was reported in Buenos Aires after a new meeting of the Commission of the Paraguay-Parana Waterway Agreement.

  • Saturday, June 24th 2023 - 10:41 UTC

    OAS wants dialogue in Nicaragua

    The OAS insisted on abiding by “the principle of non-intervention”

    The Organization of American States (OAS) asked its 35 members to do their utmost to keep bridges open with the Nicaraguan government to have all political prisoners released and reach an end to human rights violations while allowing international organizations to enter its territory, it was reported in Washington DC.

  • Thursday, June 22nd 2023 - 11:00 UTC

    WHO to train 6,000 healthcare pros to help Peru fight dengue

    Things can get worse “with the arrival of El Niño,” Tedros explained

    The World Health Organization (WHO) is to train more than 6,000 healthcare professionals to assist Peru in the dengue epidemic, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus announced Wednesday. Peru is experiencing one of its worst dengue crises, with 81,202 confirmed cases and at least 193 deaths.

  • Wednesday, June 21st 2023 - 10:48 UTC

    Former Peruvian PM arrested in connection with Castillo's coup

    Chávez was cooperative at all times during her arrest

    Former Peruvian Prime Minister Betssy Chávez was arrested Tuesday in connection with the Dec. 7 coup d'état staged by then-President Pedro Castillo Terrones, it was reported. Peru's National Police (PNP) arrested Chávez at her home in the southern city of Tacna after the Supreme Court ordered her pre-trial detention for 18 months.

  • Tuesday, June 20th 2023 - 10:28 UTC

    Bolivia pumping nearly half the gas it used to sell to Argentina

    YPFB President Armin Dorgathen admitted that the gas not used in the ammonia and urea plant will be exported to the Argentine market

    Bolivia pumped last month nearly half the gas it used to send to Argentina in May of 2022 due to output problems as demand increases due to cold weather, it was reported by El Deber citing data from the Departmental Center for Monitoring and Control of Hydrocarbons of the Santa Cruz Government and the Ministry of Hydrocarbons and Energy.

  • Monday, June 19th 2023 - 08:40 UTC

    “Resuscitating” Ecuadorian woman dies

    Montoya suffered an “ischemic stroke” that ended her life, it was reported

    The Ecuadorian woman who made the news worldwide last week for being almost buried alive, has died Friday aged 76, it was reported. Bella Montoya had been pronounced dead on June 9 at a public hospital in Babahoyo, in southwestern Ecuador.

  • Saturday, June 17th 2023 - 09:44 UTC

    Peruvian paramilitary chiefs convicted of a murder in the 1990s

    Montesinos was then-President Fuhimori's Chief Intelligence Officer

    Former Peruvian National Intelligence Service (SIE) Chief Vladimiro Montesinos and Santiago Martin Rivas, leader of the paramilitary Colina Group created under then-President Alberto Fujimori, were sentenced Friday to 23 years in prison for the premeditated murder of Mariella Barreto, it was reported in Lima.

  • Friday, June 16th 2023 - 09:54 UTC

    Iranian President rounds up Latin American tour

    Cuba has a friend in Iran, Díaz-Canel told Raisi

    Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi Wednesday rounded up a Latin American tour after his stop in Havana to meet with his Cuban colleague Miguel Díaz-Canel following calls in Caracas and Managua

  • Friday, June 16th 2023 - 09:41 UTC

    Guatemalan court hands down 6-year prison sentence to newspaper founder

    The case against Zamora has been dubbed “a witch hunt”

    José Rubén Zamora, founder of El Periódico, a newspaper critical of Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei which went out of business last month, has been sentenced to six years in jail for alleged money laundering, it was reported. Both Zamora and the Prosecutor's Office announced that they will appeal the ruling.