Latin America

Wednesday, January 22nd 2020 - 08:23 UTC
Bolivian congress finally accepts the resignation of president Evo Morales

Bolivia's Congress voted on Tuesday to accept the resignation of former president Evo Morales, two months after the 60-year-old quit and fled for asylum in Mexico and then Argentina.
Wednesday, January 22nd 2020 - 07:13 UTC
Guyana ships its first ever cargo of one million barrels of oil

A vessel carrying Guyana’s first-ever shipment of crude set sail on Monday bound for the U.S. Gulf Coast, oil major Exxon Mobil Corp said, marking the tiny South American nation’s long-awaited debut as an oil exporter.
Tuesday, January 21st 2020 - 08:14 UTC
Trump senior advisor says Bolivia's Morales has become a headache for Argentina

A senior adviser to president Trump said that former Bolivian leader Evo Morales has become a “headache” for Argentina. Mauricio Claver-Carone told the Bolivian newspaper Pagina Siete that Argentina should have focused on its economic issues instead of granting Morales asylum.
Tuesday, January 21st 2020 - 07:28 UTC
Pompeo reaffirms full support for Guaidó and calls on other countries to help remove Maduro

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says his country will take additional measures in support of Venezuela's opposition leader Juan Guaidó. Pompeo called on other countries to co-operate in efforts to remove President Nicolás Maduro from office
Tuesday, January 21st 2020 - 07:14 UTC
Mexican National Guard fires tear gas to prevent migrant caravan crossing from Guatemala

Hundreds of Central Americans from a new migrant caravan tried to force their way into Mexico on Monday by crossing the river that divides the country from Guatemala, prompting the National Guard to fire tear gas.
Tuesday, January 21st 2020 - 06:25 UTC
Panama begins exhuming a mass grave from the 1989 invasion by the US

Authorities in Panama on Monday began exhuming a mass grave containing the remains of unknown civilians killed during the 1989 US invasion of the Central American country. The move follows a decades-long effort by families of missing people to identify remains buried in a common grave in the capital's Jardin de Paz cemetery.
Monday, January 20th 2020 - 09:38 UTC
OAS Electoral Observation mission making preliminary visit to the Dominican Republic

A technical team of the Electoral Observation Mission of the Organization of American States (OAS) for the municipal elections in the Dominican Republic will make a preliminary visit to the country between January 21 and 25.
Monday, January 20th 2020 - 09:29 UTC
Guatemala cuts diplomatic ties with Venezuela; orders the closure of the embassy in Caracas

Guatemala’s new President Alejandro Giammattei cut diplomatic ties with the Venezuelan government of President Nicolas Maduro and ordered the closure of its embassy in Caracas.
Monday, January 20th 2020 - 09:05 UTC
Guaidó will meet with Pompeo at counterterrorism conference in Colombia

Venezuela opposition leader Juan Guaidó has travelled to Colombia to participate on Monday alongside Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in a regional counterterrorism meeting — a new show of support by the Trump administration for the man it says is the country’s legitimate leader.
Monday, January 20th 2020 - 07:52 UTC
Trump's migration policy challenged by Guatemalans gathered at Mexican border

Hundreds of Central Americans gathered on the Guatemala-Mexico border on Sunday, aiming to cross en masse early on Monday in what could prove a stiff test of the Mexican government's pledge to satisfy US demands to curb migrant flows.