Latin America

• Friday, September 9th 2022 - 17:49 UTC

  CHR Court rules against Costa Rica, receives complaint from Uruguay

  

  The Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) has condemned Costa Rica for acts committed in 2005 in violation of the right to freedom of thought and expression against reporters Ronald Moya Chacón and Freddy Parrales Chaves.

• Friday, September 9th 2022 - 09:25 UTC

  Carlos Slim wants fewer working days and retirement not before 75 years

  

  Mexican tycoon Carlos Slim insisted earlier this month on the need to cut down the working week to 3 days and said 75 was the right age for retirement.

• Wednesday, September 7th 2022 - 10:14 UTC

  ALBA-TCP countries demand release of Emtrasur's 747

  

  A document has been signed Tuesday by all members of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of the Americas - Peoples' Trade Agreement (ALBA-TCP) demanding Argentine returns the Emtrasur Boeing 747-300 freighter airplane to Venezuela.

• Tuesday, September 6th 2022 - 18:26 UTC

  Monkeypox cases soar in Colombia

  

  Colombian health authorities Monday confirmed 938 people had been diagnosed with monkeypox nationwide, with the bulk of the cases being in Bogotá.

• Tuesday, September 6th 2022 - 09:33 UTC

  Peru's Congress Speaker vacated after scandal breaks out

  

  Peru's One-House Congress Monday approved in a plenary session to vacate Speaker Lady Camones from her position after audios went viral proving she had carried out improper Parliamentarian deeds.

• Monday, September 5th 2022 - 18:07 UTC

  ECLAC's new boss appointed

  

  Costa Rican economist José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs has been chosen to replace Mexican diplomat Alicia Bárcena at the helm of the ECLAC after 14 years on the job, it was announced. Salazar took the oath of office before UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.

• Monday, September 5th 2022 - 10:27 UTC

  Petro links FARC groups to bomb trap that killed 7

  

  Colombian President Gustavo Petro said this weekend that it was very likely that dissident FARC groups were behind the bomb trap attack that killed 7 police officers last week.

• Saturday, September 3rd 2022 - 10:34 UTC

  Bomb trap kills 7 in Colombia

  

  Seven police officers were killed Friday after an explosive device went off Friday afternoon near the Colombian municipality of Neiva in the department of Huila.

• Friday, September 2nd 2022 - 10:29 UTC

  Foreign leaders condemn attack against Argentine VP

  

  Foreign leaders have expressed their support to Argentine Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner who survived an assassination attempt late Thursday after the gun pointed at her head failed to fire.

• Thursday, September 1st 2022 - 19:18 UTC

  Boric hopes LatAm would not tolerate a coup in Brazil if Bolsonaro loses

  

  Chilean President Gabriel Boric Font Thursday said he hoped Latin America would stage a “joint reaction” if a coup d'état takes place in next month's presidential elections in Brazil.