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Montevideo, June 14th 2025 - 14:46 UTC

Latin America

  • Monday, December 26th 2022 - 20:41 UTC

    Convicted Colombian drug lord waiting for clearance to enter Argentina

    Ignacio Alvarez Meyendorff is banned from the Argentine territory but claims it is a humanitarian issue due to his diabetes

    A Colombian drug lord was denied entry into Argentina, where he was seeking to avoid deportation. Ignacio Alvarez Meyendorff, 62, arrived at the Ezeiza airport on Avianca's Flight 87 on Dec. 23 from Bogotá but the alarms went off the minute his name was punched into the migrations screens. He has remained at the airport since. He has a wife and four children in Buenos Aires. He

  • Saturday, December 24th 2022 - 10:42 UTC

    Culture and institutions of democracy are proving to be resilient in Latin America

    Peru’s impeached leader, Pedro Castillo, was the first small-town schoolteacher to become president, but he was comically incompetent and woefully unprepared

    By Andrés Velasco (*) SANTIAGO – Just in recent months, Peru’s president attempted to dissolve Congress, Argentina’s vice president was convicted of fraud, and Brazil’s incumbent president threatened not to leave office if he lost the upcoming election. Add the consolidation of dictatorships in Venezuela and Nicaragua and the Salvadoran president’s announcement that he will seek re-election despite constitutional limits, and it would seem that democracy is in trouble in Latin America

  • Friday, December 23rd 2022 - 18:45 UTC

    Pecci case: Suspect not to be extradited to Colombia

    Salinas Mendoza is suspected of driving the jet ski bringing the hitman to shoot Pecci

    A suspect arrested in Venezuela for his alleged involvement in the murder of Paraguayan anti-mafia Prosecutor Marcelo Pecci while honeymooning in Colombia will not be extradited to stand trial, it was reported in Caracas.

  • Friday, December 23rd 2022 - 09:58 UTC

    IACHR team meets with former Peruvian President

    Castillo claimed he was being arbitrarily deprived of his rights

    A team from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) Thursday paid a visit to former Peruvian President José Pedro Castillo Terrones, who is under arrest for trying to stage a coup d'état, which led to his impeachment and subsequent pre-trial detention.

  • Thursday, December 22nd 2022 - 19:26 UTC

    Adulterated liquor kills at least 37 in Bogota

    Since his days as mayor of Bogota, Petro has made the homeless one of his priorities

    At least 37 people died between Nov. 24 and Dec. 20 in Bogota for having consumed adulterated liquor containing methanol. According to local media reports, 7 others are hospitalized in critical condition.

  • Thursday, December 22nd 2022 - 10:09 UTC

    Quito opens first subway line in a peculiar way

    Starting in March there will be “a complete and paid operation” available

    Ecuadorian authorities Wednesday celebrated the opening of Quito's first subway line, which will for now not be operational. In other words, trains will not be running until a later date, but the stations are open for people to get used to the new system. “Static induction,” they call it.

  • Thursday, December 22nd 2022 - 01:24 UTC

    Suspect in murder of Paraguayan prosecutor in Colombia captured in Venezuela

    Authorities have not determined the intellectual authors of the murder of Pecci, who investigated drug trafficking and organized crime cases.

    Venezuelan authorities captured in Caracas a sixth suspect in the murder of Paraguayan anti-mafia prosecutor Marcelo Pecci in May, when he was spending his honeymoon on a beach in the Colombian Caribbean, Colombian police reported on Wednesday. His crime has been linked to several judiciary processes, such as Uruguayan drug trafficker Sebastian Marset, who allegedly ordered the death of the prosecutor.

  • Wednesday, December 21st 2022 - 10:22 UTC

    Abundant rainfall in central Brazil helps Paraná River recover navigable level

    The Rosario Exchange highlighted that no negative values had been registered in the Parana River around the city since December 1970.

    After years of forcibly lighter shiploads due to the intense down flow of the Parana River, the water level has begun to grow again, especially in the last couple of months. Thus according to the Rosario Grain Exchange, the average shipload of vessels sailing upriver rose 21% in two months and stood at more than 38,000 tons in November. Furthermore, the current water level is 23% above November last year and 19% above the November 2020 average.

  • Wednesday, December 21st 2022 - 09:58 UTC

    Two coups doomed to fail before they began and the power of big lies

    President Castillo ran as an independent and his only declared ally was the Marxist-Lenin Free Peru Party

    By Gwynne Dyer – Could there be anything more ridiculous than last week’s failed coup attempt in Peru?

  • Wednesday, December 21st 2022 - 09:52 UTC

    Peru's Congress initially agrees to shorten presidential term

    The new plan is for the current Executive and Legislative authorities to finish their terms in July of 2024

    Peru's Congress Tuesday approved a bill to bring forward the general elections to April 2024 after it had rejected a similar initiative last week, thus fueling additional unrest nationwide.