Latin America

• Monday, December 27th 2021 - 20:16 UTC

  Andean Community lifts roaming charges as of Jan. 1

  

  Roaming charges for cell phone communications is about to become a thing of the past for countries of The Andean Community (CAN - Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru). Effective Jan. 1, 2022, and thanks to the joint work of its member countries and the institutional strength that it has had for more than 52 years, the citizens of the CAN will not have to pay any additional surcharge for post-paid international roaming and will be able to be more and better communicated.

• Monday, December 27th 2021 - 09:55 UTC

  Latam applies for Sao Paulo/MPA flights to begin 9 February, Aeroin

  

  LATAM Airlines has submitted to Brazil's National Civilian Aviation Agency its flight schedule for the Sao Paulo/Falkland Islands commercial air link resumption, allegedly scheduled for next 9 February, according to Brazilian air industry site, Aeroin.

• Monday, December 27th 2021 - 09:53 UTC

  Bolivia receives the donation of 3 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine

  

  A shipment of 3 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine has landed in Bolivia Sunday. The batch of the Sinopharm drug is China's largest donation ever to the South American country and will be used particularly on children aged between 5 and 11 years old.

• Friday, December 24th 2021 - 09:46 UTC

  Armed Mapuches in Southern Chile burn 31 cabins, forestry machinery and open fire on a hydrant aircraft

  

  The indigenous Mapuche tribe violent groups in southern Chile, involved in arson and destruction attacks, have warned that as long as forestry and construction companies keep ”devastating our resources, and the jails of southern Chile continue full of Mapuche patriots incarcerated, weichan (armed resistance) will not cease to be it under (president) Piñera or (elected president) Boric”.

• Friday, December 24th 2021 - 09:45 UTC

  Ecuador makes COVID-19 vaccination mandatory

  

  The Government of Ecuador has decided to make vaccination against COVID-19 mandatory, except for people with a medical condition that renders the shot counterproductive, it was announced Thursday.

• Friday, December 24th 2021 - 09:21 UTC

  Eastern cancellations leave hundreds of Paraguayans stranded in Miami

  

  Some 300 Paraguayan nationals who were stranded in Miami after Eastern Airlines canceled its Dec. 18 and 21 flights to Asuncion will be arriving shortly before midnight Friday, it was announced.

• Thursday, December 23rd 2021 - 20:30 UTC

  Almost 30 tons of illegally extracted coltan taken away from Colombian guerrillas

  

  According to reports published this week, Colombian law enforcement authorities have seized some 30 tons of coltan in the last six months from Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces (FARC) and National Liberation Army (ELN) dissidents, who, according to the Prosecutor's Office, allegedly exploited indigenous people to extract the mineral.

• Thursday, December 23rd 2021 - 09:05 UTC

  IAPA wants press freedom guaranteed in Chile's new Constitution

  

  The Inter-American Press Association (IAPA) Wednesday asked Chile's Constitutional Convention to “guarantee the broadest access to public information and to prohibit Congress from enacting laws that restrict freedom of the press” in the new text being drafted.

• Wednesday, December 22nd 2021 - 22:32 UTC

  Colombia's proposed security law violates human rights, opposition claims

  

  Opposition parties in Colombia have raised their voices Wednesday against the Security bill passed Tuesday by the Senate because while it claims to guarantee citizen security, it violates the Constitution, criminalizes social protest, and hands out licenses to kill. The bill is now up to President Iván Duque for enactment.

• Wednesday, December 22nd 2021 - 11:29 UTC

  Áñez's daughter seeks help from Bachelet regarding her mother's arrest

  

  Carolina Ribera, daughter of Bolivia's former interim President Jeanine Áñez, Tuesday sought assistance from the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, to help put an end to the “torture” her mother is allegedly enduring while incarcerated pending trial.