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Montevideo, November 30th 2024 - 16:24 UTC

Latin America

  • Tuesday, November 12th 2024 - 06:32 UTC

    US airliner shot at when trying to land in Haiti's main airport

    The Spirit Airlines Airbus A-320 aircraft took several gunshots, it was reported by company sources in the Dominican Republic

    Violence-torn Haiti keeps making headlines worldwide as a Spirit Airlines flight from Fort Lauderdale was shot at when trying to land at noon local time by gangs surrounding Port-au-Prince's Toussaint Louverture International Airport on the same day that the new interim Prime Minister was sworn in.

  • Monday, November 11th 2024 - 10:11 UTC

    Cadem survey shows 42% of Chileans would like a President like Bukele

    Bukele has an 81% positive image in the South American nation

    According to the Cadem Plaza Pública survey released this weekend in Santiago de Chile, 42% of the citizenry would like their next president to resemble El Salvador's Nayib Bukele, who has an 81% positive image in the South American nation.

  • Monday, November 11th 2024 - 10:04 UTC

    Haiti's Council sacks interim PM and appoints a successor

    Conille stayed in office for about six months

    Haiti's Presidential Transitional Council decided Sunday to appoint Alix Didier Fils-Aimé as interim Prime Minister in lieu of Garry Conille, it was reported in gang violence-torn Port-au-Prince. The transitional council was an emergency body created on April 25, 2024, in an effort to restore democratic order in a country deep in havoc, particularly since the July 7, 2021 assassination of President Jovenel Moïse. It is made up of members from various political parties, civil society, and observers.

  • Monday, November 11th 2024 - 09:58 UTC

    Lima ready for key APEC Leaders' Week

    APEC Leaders' Week will also mark the opening of the Chancay Megaport, which is expected to revolutionize South America's Pacific trade

    The city of Lima, the capital of Peru, will be turned upside down this week, during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit starting Monday, which will be attended by Presidents Joseph Biden of the United States and Xi Jinping from China among other dignitaries from 21 countries, particularly between Nov. 14 and 16, which have been declared as non-working days.

  • Monday, November 11th 2024 - 09:51 UTC

    60-hour-long power cuts announced for some of Ecuador's industrial districts

    There seems to be no way out of Ecuador's current energy crisis in the short or medium term

    Ecuador's business sectors voiced their concern on Saturday/Sunday about the five-day power outage scheduled for this week in at least three industrial sectors of Quito industrial zones to compensate for the energy shortages affecting the country since September.

  • Monday, November 11th 2024 - 09:36 UTC

    Bolivian president promises prompt return to normalcy

    Arce recalled that, between January and February this year, there were already blockades after which it took almost three weeks to normalize activities

    Bolivian President Luis Arce Catacora said this weekend that the supply of diesel fuel and the prices of family basket items would be normalized in the next 10 days after over three weeks of road blockades by followers of former President Evo Morales who want him to run in next year's elections and be spared the rape and human traffic charges against him.

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

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

    The case of Evo Morales running again for office is closed “forever and for life”

    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

    “Today we are gathered to define a new Digital Agenda for Latin America and the Caribbean,” Uruguay's Virginia Pardo said

    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

    AgroAlba will allow us to guarantee food for our peoples, Arreaza insisted

    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

    Trump declared victory early Wednesday and announced that America's golden age lay ahead

    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.