Latin America

• Wednesday, March 23rd 2022 - 09:04 UTC

  Punta del Este needs more schools to accommodate new residents

  

  The exclusive Uruguayan beach resort of Punta del Este is experiencing an increase in the development and establishment of schools, as migrating inflows of Argentines and also of people from other parts of the country to become permanent residents have put pressure on the demand.

• Tuesday, March 22nd 2022 - 09:00 UTC

  Cristiana Chamorro given 8-year sentence in Nicaragua

  

  Nicaraguan opposition leader Cristiana Chamorro Barrios was sentenced Monday to eight years in prison for “money laundering, property and assets laundering, misappropriation and improper retention, abusive management, and ideological falsehood,” it was reported in Managua.

• Monday, March 21st 2022 - 09:41 UTC

  Peru's President vows to push forward with Second Agrarian Reform

  

  Peru's President Pedro Castillo Terrones Sunday announced his Government's upcoming actions will be aimed at strengthening the Second Agrarian Reform, because, after all, “our lands give us all the food and our brother farmers deserve to be supported in a comprehensive and rapid manner.”

• Saturday, March 19th 2022 - 10:10 UTC

  Chile: Boric signs environmental agreement Piñera had discarded

  

  Chile's President Gabriel Boric Font Friday signed the so-called Escazú environmental agreement, which his predecessor Sebastián Piñera discarded at the last minute after having sponsored it. “We have changed course,” Boric said.

• Saturday, March 19th 2022 - 09:52 UTC

  IACHR concerned over Court decision to reinstate Fujimori's pardon in Peru

  

  The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) Friday said it was “concerned” following Thursday's decision by Peru's Constitutional Court to uphold a pardon to former president Alberto Fujimori, who is about to be released from jail, after being sentenced to 25 years for crimes against humanity.

• Friday, March 18th 2022 - 20:38 UTC

  Office of Medellín's Mayor launches masturbation-awareness campaign

  

  The Office of the Mayor of the Colombian city of Medellín has launched a most unusual campaign on social media to rid masturbation from the moral prejudices surrounding it.

• Friday, March 18th 2022 - 09:54 UTC

  Vaccinated travelers to be spared further testing to enter Uruguay

  

  Uruguay's Minister of Tourism Tabaré Viera has requested his Public Health colleague Daniel Salinas to review the possibility that incoming travelers fully vaccinated against COVID-19 are spared the swab test at the earliest.

• Friday, March 18th 2022 - 09:53 UTC

  Peru's Constitutional Court ruling clears path to Fujimori's release

  

  Peru's Constitutional Court Thursday upheld a Presidential pardon granted in 2017 by Pedro Pablo Kuczynski (PPK) to Alberto Fujimori, who is serving a 25-year prison sentence for crimes against humanity.

• Friday, March 18th 2022 - 09:48 UTC

  Cuban demonstrators given jail terms of 4 to 30 years

  

  Cuba's Judiciary handed down prison sentences ranging from 4 to 30 years to the July 11 demonstrators who filled the streets demanding an improvement to their living conditions, it was reported Thursday.

• Friday, March 18th 2022 - 09:00 UTC

  Nicaragua outlaws yet another 25 NGOs

  

  The Government of Nicaragua has outlawed yet another 25 Non-Government Organizations (NGOs), bringing that figure up to 87 since December of 2018, it was reported Thursday.