Latin America

• Friday, August 12th 2022 - 10:15 UTC

  Uruguayan drug trafficker involved in several crimes, accused of ordering murder of Paraguayan prosecutor Marcelo Pecci

  

  Uruguayan drug trafficker Sebastián Marset has been accused of ordering the death of Paraguayan prosecutor Marcelo Pecci, who was murdered in May on the island of Barú, in the Colombian Caribbean, reported Colombian newspaper El Tiempo on Tuesday.

• Thursday, August 11th 2022 - 09:24 UTC

  Argentine MSMEs reach record exports in first semester of 2022

  

  Argentine Micro, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (MSMEs) have reached peak export figures during the first semester of 2022.

• Wednesday, August 10th 2022 - 09:58 UTC

  Mexico: AMLO announcement dubbed “a soft coup”

  

  Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) Tuesday came under heavy criticism when he announced that he would transfer the National Guard to the scope of the Armed Forces, which was regarded as a “soft” coup d'état.

• Tuesday, August 9th 2022 - 09:10 UTC

  Boric and Petro discuss region's leaning to the left

  

  Chile's President Gabriel Boric Font Monday became the first foreign leader welcomed for a one-on-one meeting by Colombia's new head of state Gustavo Petro.

• Monday, August 8th 2022 - 10:02 UTC

  Pilcomayo river under environmental threat in northern Argentina

  

  Authorities in the Argentine province of Salta have issued a recommendation not to bathe, fish, or drink water from the Pilcomayo river pending studies undertaken by the Secretariat of Water Resources after the collapse of a dam in Bolivia.

• Monday, August 8th 2022 - 09:55 UTC

  Petro sworn in as President of Colombia: times of change ahead

  

  Gustavo Petro was sworn in Sunday as Colombia's first-ever leftwing president, thus succeeding the conservative and highly unpopular Iván Duque.

• Saturday, August 6th 2022 - 11:23 UTC

  Puebla Group approaches Argentine President to funnel agenda

  

  The forum bringing together leftwing leaders known as the Puebla Group is to bring Argentine President Alberto Fernández a proposal for the convergence of the different integration mechanisms existing in the region, former Colombian President Ernesto Samper (1994-1998) announced Friday.

• Saturday, August 6th 2022 - 11:17 UTC

  No Premier resignation by cabinet reshuffled anyway in Peru

  

  Peru's President Pedro Castillo Terrones Friday declined Premier Aníbal Torres' resignation, who will therefore remain in his post. But the head of state did make some cabinet reshuffling involving six ministries anyway.

• Friday, August 5th 2022 - 09:28 UTC

  Peruvian Congress keeps Castillo from attending Petro's inauguration

  

  Peru's one-house Congress Thursday denied President Pedro Castillo Terrones permission to attend the inauguration of Colombia's new President Gustavo Petro in Bogota on Aug. 7. Castillo had filed for clearance to be out of the country between Aug. 6 to 8, as per Article 102 of the Constitution.

• Thursday, August 4th 2022 - 21:13 UTC

  Mexican FM lands in Bolivia on key tour regarding lithium production

  

  Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard landed in Bolivia Thursday to take part in a series of events and hold meetings with local authorities, as part of his tour to foster a joint strategy to exploit lithium resources