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Latin America

  • Saturday, January 20th 2024 - 10:39 UTC

    Ecuadorean druglord family found in Argentina and deported back to Ecuador

    It is very typical of gang leaders to find a safe place for their families so that they are not involved in criminal behavior, Bullrich explained

    Law enforcement officers in the Argentine province of Córdoba raided a residence in an exclusive country club and arrested the wife and children of Ecuadorean druglord Alfonso Macías, alias “Fito,” whose escape from jail earlier this month triggered a wave of unprecedented violence nationwide.

  • Friday, January 19th 2024 - 10:52 UTC

    Ecuador: Two arrested in connection with Prosecutor Suárez's murder

    “We have apprehended two suspects,” Zapata said on X

    Ecuadorean authorities Thursday arrested two people in connection with Wednesday's murder of Prosecutor César Suárez, who was handling the case of the Jan. 9 assault on a TV station amid the growing wave of drug trafficking, terrorism, and organized crime violence. Various guns and two vehicles were also seized in the operation, it was explained.

  • Friday, January 19th 2024 - 10:27 UTC

    Lithium: Bolivia's YLB signs new agreement with China's CBC

    Opposition lawmakers said these announcements were mere propaganda

    A new agreement between Bolivia's state-owned Yacimientos de Litio Bolivianos (YLB) and the Chinese consortium CATL, BRUNP & CMOC (CBC) was signed Thursday to install a lithium carbonate pilot plant with Direct Lithium Extraction (DLE) technology in the Uyuni salt flat and would have a production of 2,500 tons per year after an investment worth US$ 90 million.

  • Friday, January 19th 2024 - 10:10 UTC

    Paraguay's BCP confirms CPI in 2023 within target range

    Paraguay ranked behind Ecuador, Bolivia, and Peru

    Paraguay's Central Bank (BCP) Thursday released a report showing that the Consumer Price Index (CPI) for 2023 was 3.7%, making it the fourth lowest in South America in addition to falling within the target range (3.8%). It also meant a decrease from 2022's 8.1%.

  • Thursday, January 18th 2024 - 10:56 UTC

    Ecuadorean prosecutor handling last week's TV station seizure shot dead

    Suárez has been involved in several high-profile cases related to corruption and organized crime

    Ecuadorean Prosecutor César Suárez who was handling the investigation into the Jan. 9 seizure of a Public TV station by a drug-trafficking gang, was shot dead Wednesday in Guayaquil, adding to the South American country's wave of crime and violence. Suárez took over 20 gunshots, it was reported. National Police “specialized units” have been assigned to the case.

  • Thursday, January 18th 2024 - 10:55 UTC

    Argentina: New oil spill recorded off Bahía Blanca

    The German oil company Oiltanking was involved in both incidents a fortnight apart

    Argentine authorities in the city port of Bahía Blanca in the province of Buenos Aires said a new oil spill had been reported after the one late last month. However, this time around the damage would have been controlled in less time, it was explained.

  • Wednesday, January 17th 2024 - 10:05 UTC

    Essequibo about to become military conflict, Colombia's Petro tells WEF

    “We have to compensate Guyana and Venezuela so that” the Essequibo oil is not exploited out of environmental considerations, said Petro

    Colombian President Gustavo Petro Tuesday said during his appearance at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, that oil- extracting in the Essequibo area held by Guyana but claimed by Venezuela should not go on. He also reckoned the dispute was on the verge of becoming a military conflict.

  • Tuesday, January 16th 2024 - 11:20 UTC

    Boric keen on not mirroring Ecuador's crisis

    A person who commits a crime is also a human being, Boric argued

    Chilean President Gabriel Boric Font Monday said during an engagement in the Coquimbo Region that his administration needed to do things to not have to go through the crisis Ecuador is experiencing. “We have to ask ourselves how we do things so that we don't get to that place,” Boric underlined.

  • Tuesday, January 16th 2024 - 11:17 UTC

    Ecuador: 48 prison inmates escape, only 5 recaptured

    One prisoner died during the incidents at the Esmeraldas jailhouse

    Only five of the 48 prison inmates that escaped Monday from the Esmeraldas jailhouse were recaptured later in the day according to sources from Ecuadorean President Daniel Noboa's administration quoted by local media.

  • Tuesday, January 16th 2024 - 11:10 UTC

    Peru: Repsol argues area affected by La Pampilla spill is fit for use

    Despite Repsol's statement, there is no conclusive evidence that the area affected by the spill is oil-free

    The Spanish oil company Repsol said Monday that the Peruvian beaches affected by the 2022 La Pampilla spill were again fit for travelers.