Latin America

• Monday, June 7th 2021 - 09:55 UTC

  Peru: Fujimori slightly ahead but too soon to celebrate – exit polls show otherwise

  

  Conservative candidate Keiko Fujimori was slightly ahead of leftist Pedro Castillo Monday dawn as provisional results of Peru's presidential runoff were being announced by the National Office of Electoral Processes (ONPE).

• Monday, June 7th 2021 - 09:14 UTC

  US VP Harris on Latin America mission to deal with migrants' crisis

  

  Vice President Kamala Harris left Washington Sunday aboard on an official tour to Guatemala and Mexico to deal with the crisis involving migrants going through those countries as well as through Honduras and El Salvador on their way to an illegal entry into the United States.

• Monday, June 7th 2021 - 09:11 UTC

  Ballet performance marks pilot trial of Uruguayan green pass

  

  Uruguayan authorities held a pilot test of the “green pass” with an event at Montevideo's Sodre auditorium Saturday evening.

• Monday, June 7th 2021 - 09:06 UTC

  CNP to go on protesting as dialogue with Colombian government yields no progress

  

  Colombia's National Strike Committee (CNP) Sunday decided to push through with marches and demonstrations as a dialogue with the administration of President Iván Duque was leading nowhere.

• Saturday, June 5th 2021 - 09:47 UTC

  Uruguayan ministers travel to Paraguay to discuss flexibilization of Mercosur

  

  Uruguay's Economy Minister Azucena Arbeleche and Foreign Minister Francisco Bustillo travelled to Paraguay Friday to discuss with the local administration of President Mario Abdo Benítez new steps towards flexibilities Mercosur's rules.

• Saturday, June 5th 2021 - 08:57 UTC

  Latin America unemployment in 2021 forecast at 11.1%, according to ILO

  

  The International Labor Organization (ILO) Friday issued a report according to which 28 million Latin Americans are in a situation of working poverty due to the pandemic, for an overall unemployment rate of 11.1% in the region for the year 2021.

• Saturday, June 5th 2021 - 08:21 UTC

  Mexico blasts OAS Secretary General Almagro, “one of the worst in history”

  

  Mexico's foreign minister on Friday criticized the work of the head of the Organization of American States, Uruguayan born Luis Almagro, adding to its earlier rebuke that the group should not intervene in Bolivia's internal affairs.

• Friday, June 4th 2021 - 09:55 UTC

  Lacalle Pou wants Uruguay to compete in an unprotected foreign trade scenario

  

  Uruguayan President Luis Lacalle Pou said Thursday during the virtual Export Day celebrations that “we like to play on a large court, and not on a small, protected one.”

• Friday, June 4th 2021 - 09:29 UTC

  Keiko narrows the gap with leftist Castillo for Peru's presidential runoff

  

  Conservative candidate Keiko Fujimori, daughter of former dictator Alberto Fujimori now sitting in jail for human rights violations, closes in on leftist first-round winner Pedro Castillo for Sunday's presidential runoff in Peru, a study showed Thursday.

• Friday, June 4th 2021 - 08:45 UTC

  Colombian court bans Venom rocket launcher against protesters

  

  A Colombian court in the city of Popayán has banned the use by law enforcement agents of the Venom ammunition launch system, Colombia, it was announced.