Latin America

• Wednesday, September 25th 2024 - 15:40 UTC

  Well-preserved Ice Age mastodons found in Peru

  

  Peruvian archaeologists found the fossilized remains of three Ice Age mastodons, which shed new light on these animals' presence in the region, with further specimes hoped to be unearthed shortly as the excavations that began in 2019 in the Chambara Valley, 300 kilometers east of Lima, are scheduled to continue. The behemoths found there are believed to be between 11,000 and 12,000 years old.

• Wednesday, September 25th 2024 - 11:09 UTC

  Colombian President critical of Argentine colleague before UN

  

  Colombian President Gustavo Petro criticized the advance of global right leaders who chant “Long fucking live freedom“ but mean ”only the freedom of the richest 1% of the world's population.” Although he did not mention him by name, Petro was undoubtedly referring to his Argentine colleague Javier Milei's war cry. “Their mercantile and free sentiment leads to the destruction of the atmosphere and of life,” Colombia's first-ever leftwing head of state elaborated in defense of the environment.

• Monday, September 23rd 2024 - 19:15 UTC

  Violence-torn Haiti still relies on UN and foreign help to fight gangs

  

  Provisional authorities in violence-torn Haiti are stepping up their efforts to garner international help in their fight against local gangs. During the weekend, visiting Port-au-Prince was Kenyan President William Ruto, whose country has already contributed a 400-strong police force and pledged to add some more troops shortly if necessary. At the same time, Presidential Transitional Council member Leslie Voltaire met with India's Ambassador Ramu Abbagani to discuss the issue, in addition to other topics such as climate change, natural disasters, public health, artificial intelligence, and solar energy.

• Monday, September 23rd 2024 - 08:02 UTC

  HMS Protector involved in practicing boarding operations with navies from four countries

  

  Ice Patrol HMS Protector has provided the perfect training platform during Exercise Unitas, the world's longest-running multinational maritime exercise. Teams from the UK, US, Chile, Mexico and Colombia used the Royal Navy's ice patrol ship for practicing boarding operations, where personnel move between vessels.

• Saturday, September 21st 2024 - 10:31 UTC

  Buenos Aires holds talks with Gol regarding Aerolineas Argentinas' future

  

  Argentina's Cabinet Chief Guillermo Francos and Economy Minister Luis Toto Caputo met Friday with representatives from the Brazilian airline Gol to discuss the possible handover of Aerolíneas Argentinas operations amid threats of additional strikes by pilots and cabin crewmembers. Earlier this month, some 37,000 travelers were affected by the protests seeking wage increases to cope with inflation.

• Friday, September 20th 2024 - 23:00 UTC

  Haitian gov't announces security measures for merchant ships sailing to and from Port-au-Prince

  

  Haitian authorities have announced that merchant ships will be escorted then entering a leaving Port-au-Prince given the mounting insecurity in the Caribbean country. Interim Prime Minister Garry Conille made this decision after four ships left to avoid gang violence.

• Friday, September 20th 2024 - 10:06 UTC

  Water deficit places Ecuador under “red alert”

  

  A red alert has been declared in several parts of Ecuador hit by an unprecedented drought that resulted among other things in mass power cuts in a country already hit by spreading forest fires.

• Wednesday, September 18th 2024 - 16:00 UTC

  Bolivia's Foreign Minister says Evo-led coup in the making

  

  Bolivia's Foreign Minister Celinda Sosa Lunda said Tuesday that a coup d'état against President Luis Arce Catacora was being arranged by former head of state Evo Morales and his followers through road blockades and other measures.

• Wednesday, September 18th 2024 - 09:21 UTC

  Peruvian President denied permission to attend United Nations GA

  

  Peru's one-house Congress on Tuesday voted against allowing President Dina Boluarte to attend the United Nations General Assembly in New York next week, with 55 votes to 50 and 5 abstentions. Boluarte intended to be in the United States between Sept. 22 and 25 while remaining in charge of the South American country remotely.

• Tuesday, September 17th 2024 - 12:50 UTC

  Noboa wants foreign military bases back in Ecuador but needs Constitutional reform for that

  

  Ecuadorean President Daniel Noboa has submitted before the Constitutional Court (CC) a projected amendment whereby foreign military bases might be admitted in the South American country. “The present request seeks that this magistracy carries out the prior control at a first moment of the project of partial reform to the Constitution that is presented, and that, through an opinion, pronounces itself regarding the way by which it should be processed,” read the document signed by the head of state.