Latin America

• Friday, September 5th 2025 - 09:52 UTC

  Violence-halted football match: U de Chile advances

  

  The South American Football Confederation (Conmebol) decided on Thursday at its headquarters in Asunción that the Copa Sudamericana match in Avellaneda between Argentina's Independiente and Universidad de Chile, which was suspended amid hooligan violence, was to be declared as finished, with the Chilean squad advancing to the next round.

• Thursday, September 4th 2025 - 10:22 UTC

  Peru: Vizcarra released from prison

  

  Former Peruvian President Martín Vizcarra was released on Wednesday from his preventive detention as he was deemed to pose a flight risk regarding the charges against him of accepting bribes while he was governor of the Moquegua region (2011-2014).

• Thursday, September 4th 2025 - 09:39 UTC

  Irfaan Ali reelected as President of Guyana

  

  The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) released on Wednesday the results of Monday's polls, confirming the re-election of incumbent President Irfaan Ali of the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C). with 242,498 votes after winning eight of the country's ten regions.

• Wednesday, September 3rd 2025 - 11:30 UTC

  US sinks alleged drug-trafficking boat in Caribbean, killing 11

  

  US President Donald Trump on Tuesday announced a “kinetic strike” on a vessel from Venezuela that was allegedly transporting illegal narcotics. The attack, the first of its kind since the US deployed warships to the southern Caribbean, resulted in the deaths of 11 people.

• Tuesday, September 2nd 2025 - 10:12 UTC

  Bolivia: Arce not wanted back to his teaching position

  

  Leaders of the Bolivian University Confederation (CUB), grouping college students, formally requested that President Luis Arce Catacora not return to his teaching position in the Economics Department at the Universidad Mayor de San Andrés (UMSA).

• Monday, September 1st 2025 - 10:26 UTC

  Colombia summons Celac FMs to discuss US Caribbean deployment

  

  Colombia, holding the pro tempore presidency of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (Celac), has called an urgent virtual meeting of the organization's foreign ministers to address recent US military movements in the Caribbean.

• Monday, September 1st 2025 - 09:52 UTC

  Ecuador announces new transit visa requirements

  

  The Ecuadorian Government of President Daniel Noboa announced that, starting Monday, the South American country would require transit visas for holders of passports from 45 nationalities that already require consular approval for longer stays.

• Monday, September 1st 2025 - 09:51 UTC

  Researchers find wreck of former Uruguayan Navy's ROU 01

  

  The “Uruguay Sub200” scientific expedition, aboard the research vessel Falkor, has discovered the shipwreck of the destroyer ROU-01 Uruguay - formerly the USS Baron - at a depth of 1,160 meters off the coast.

• Saturday, August 30th 2025 - 10:11 UTC

  Peru: Scientists extracting skeleton of 20-million-year-old bird

  

  A team of Peruvian researchers has discovered the perfectly preserved fossil of a new, giant seabird species believed to be 20 million years old. The skeleton, found in the Ocucaje Desert in the department of Ica, is similar in size to a modern condor. In principle, the specimen is believed to belong to a species never before studied.

• Friday, August 29th 2025 - 10:36 UTC

  Lula and Mulino advance Panama's accession to Mercosur

  

  Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and his Panamanian colleague José Raúl Mulino met in Brasilia to advance the Central American country's accession to the Southern Common Market (Mercosur). In addition, the two leaders instructed their teams to begin negotiations aimed at addressing the existing trade imbalance, as Brazil's exports far outweigh Panama's exports.