Latin America

• Monday, August 15th 2022 - 10:07 UTC

  Petro shakes-up Colombia's military brass

  

  Just one week after his inauguration, Colombian President Gustavo Petro sent 52 generals into retirement. The biggest sweep in Colombia's history is aimed at putting together a corruption-free brass.

• Saturday, August 13th 2022 - 09:32 UTC

  HRW concerned as 2 journalists indicted in Bolivia

  

  Human Rights Watch Friday posted messages on Twitter admitting to the organization's concern over the charges filed in Bolivia by Prosecutor Junior Flores against journalists Andrés Rojas and Adriana G., whose arrest was requested.

• Saturday, August 13th 2022 - 09:27 UTC

  Colombia: ELN rebels release hostages while returning to peace talks

  

  As peace negotiations between the Colombian Government and the National Liberation Army (ELN) kick off in Cuba, the guerrilla movement has released nine people who were being held hostage since last month in the department of Arauca.

• Friday, August 12th 2022 - 13:51 UTC

  Petro: Pecci murder by Uruguayan drug trafficker “shows that drug trafficking has long ceased to be a US-Colombian bilateral problem”

  

  Colombian new president Gustavo Petro has referred to the murder of Paraguayan prosecutor Marcelo Pecci, who was killed in May on the island of Barú, in the Colombian Caribbean. This crime has been linked this week to Uruguayan drug trafficker Sebastián Marset, fugitive of Uruguay’s and Paraguay’s justice, and accused of ordering Pecci’s execution.

• 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.