Latin America

• Saturday, June 29th 2019 - 05:44 UTC

  Uruguay withdraws from OAS assembly to protest the incorporation of a Guaido representative

  

  Uruguay on Thursday withdrew from the annual meeting of the Organization of American States (OAS) Assembly being held in Medellin, Colombia, in protest of the presence of what it said was an illegitimate delegation from Venezuela.

• Thursday, June 27th 2019 - 15:12 UTC

  Argentina foils arms trafficking gang operating in Paraguay and Brazil

  

  Argentina foiled an international gang dedicated to arms trafficking following raids in several provinces and eight months of committed criminal intelligence, according to Security minister Patricia Bullrich.

• Thursday, June 27th 2019 - 09:49 UTC

  Former intelligence chief claims Maduro is head of criminal enterprise looting Venezuela

  

  Venezuela's former intelligence chief, Cristopher Figuera, who fled the country after backing a failed uprising against President Nicolas Maduro in April, has told the Washington Post the regime could still fall.

• Thursday, June 27th 2019 - 09:48 UTC

  OAS meets in Medellín and Maduro claims he derailed a coup sponsored by US, Chile and Colombia

  

  Venezuela's government said on Wednesday it had derailed a coup bid, claiming the United States, Colombia and Chile colluded in a military plot to assassinate President Nicolas Maduro and install a general and former defense minister in his place.

• Thursday, June 27th 2019 - 09:15 UTC

  A photograph shocks world opinion and questions Trump's immigration polices

  

  A shocking photograph of a Salvadoran man and his baby daughter drowned in the Rio Grande fuelled a surge of emotion around the world on Wednesday, as US Democrats furiously denounced Donald Trump's immigration policies.

• Wednesday, June 26th 2019 - 19:21 UTC

  US$ 1.3 million found in a Venezuelan airplane in the Dominican Republic

  

  Dominican authorities found 1,378,178 million dollars inside a private plane with Venezuelan registration. It is being investigated if the confiscated money was the product of an international drug trafficking transaction.

• Wednesday, June 26th 2019 - 08:54 UTC

  Mexican president denies having ordered troops to detain migrants trying to cross to the United States

  

  Mexico's president vowed on Tuesday to investigate the controversial detention of migrants trying to cross the US border, saying the 15,000 troops he has deployed there have no such orders.

• Friday, June 21st 2019 - 11:30 UTC

  Assange friend, and alleged hacker, freed in Ecuador but cannot leave the country

  

  An Ecuadorean judge on Thursday ordered that a Swedish citizen and personal friend of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange be freed, two months after he was detained for alleged participation in a hacking attempt on the government.

• Friday, June 21st 2019 - 11:00 UTC

  Four EU leaders express concern over EU/Mercosur farm sector deal

  

  French President Emmanuel Macron and three other national leaders warned the European Commission that a trade deal with trade bloc Mercosur “could ultimately destabilize production and the agricultural sector.”

• Friday, June 21st 2019 - 10:34 UTC

  Falkland Islands Holidays attends Experience Latin America organized by LATA

  

  Margaret Williams of Falkland Islands Holidays recently attended Experience Latin America; an exclusive by invitation only travel trade event, held for the first time in Stamford Bridge, London.