Latin America

• Friday, November 8th 2024 - 22:26 UTC

  Bolivia's Constitutional Court rules Evo may never run again for president

  

  Bolivia's Plurinational Constitutional Tribunal (TCP) ruled Friday once again that former President Juan Evo Morales Ayma is banned from running again for such an office, given the number of terms already served. The TCP thus insisted that no elected authority can seek a third term after having been reelected consecutively or otherwise.

• Thursday, November 7th 2024 - 22:21 UTC

  ECLAC convention agrees on need to deepen regional cooperation in digital transformation

  

  Dignitaries in Santiago (Chile) attending the two-day Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean's (ECLAC) Ninth Ministerial Conference on the Information Society advocated Thursday for deepening regional cooperation in digital transformation through concrete actions and projects.

• Thursday, November 7th 2024 - 07:20 UTC

  AgroAlba MOU signed in Caracas

  

  The Governments of Venezuela and St Vincent and the Grenadines signed Wednesday the AgroAlba Memorandum of Understanding in Caracas. The multilateral initiative is an integration mechanism within The Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America - People's Trade Treaty (ALBA-TCP) seeking to foster productive investment and strengthen food sovereignty through the promotion of sustainable development, Venezuela's Foreign Minister Yván Gil explained.

• Wednesday, November 6th 2024 - 21:25 UTC

  World leaders congratulate Trump on his win - still not Harris

  

  While leaders from the world over have congratulated Republican candidate Donald J. Trump on his electoral win on Tuesday which has earned him a second 4-year term at The Oval Office, Vice President Kamala Harris is yet to acknowledge defeat, as is customary in these cases. Perhaps Trump himself was the only one to break that tradition four years ago when rumors of vote count-rigging still gave him hope against Joseph Biden.

• Tuesday, November 5th 2024 - 10:12 UTC

  Guatemalan authorities have corruption evidence against former President Giammatei

  

  Guatemalan authorities found enough evidence to indict former President Alejandro Giammattei for corruption in the so-called “Red Q” case. However, the Attorney General's Office should request Giammatei's immunity lifted before proceeding any further with the “abuse of authority” and “influence peddling” charges in a case of hiring an official who was later sanctioned by the United States, namely the former director of the National Electrification Institute Melvin Quijivix Vega.

• Monday, November 4th 2024 - 10:27 UTC

  Bolivian gov't announces countermeasures to Evistas

  

  Bolivian authorities announced Sunday that they would be launching “Operation Recovering the Homeland” after followers of former President Evo Morales seized three military barracks last week, keeping some 200 troops hostage.

• Monday, November 4th 2024 - 09:36 UTC

  Evo's legal front reaches Argentina

  

  Argentine authorities have filed a criminal complaint against former Bolivian President Evo Morales for the alleged rape and human trafficking of four teenage girls while he was under asylum in the country, Security Minister Patricia Bullrich announced during the weekend. Morales will be prosecuted for allegedly “committing crimes of human trafficking and sexual abuse,” Bullrich explained.

• Saturday, November 2nd 2024 - 10:17 UTC

  Evo goes on hunger strike, calls for end to road blockades to seek dialogue

  

  Former Bolivian President Evo Morales announced Friday that he would go on a hunger strike as the conflict between him and his former Minister of Economy and ally, and current president, Luis Arce Catacora, continues to escalate.

• Friday, November 1st 2024 - 10:42 UTC

  Bukele's El Salvador to send troops to Haiti

  

  El Salvador's Congress gave its nod this week to the sending of troops to help violence-torn Haiti where crime gangs reign supreme. At first, El Salvador's assistance will be focused on medevac operations in coordination with the United Nations (UN) blue helmets deployed in the Caribbean country. The Parliamentarian decision thus ratified with 57 votes out of 60 the so-called ”Agreement on the Condition of the Multinational Security Support Mission (MMAS) in Haiti” signed by the diplomatic missions of El Salvador and Haiti to the Organization of American States (OAS).

• Friday, November 1st 2024 - 10:14 UTC

  PAHO warns of surge in measles cases

  

  Given the recent identification of measles clusters and cases in the Americas, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) issued an epidemiological alert on Thursday. Therefore, the World Health Organization's (WHO) continental subsidiary urged local governments to up their vaccination campaigns.