Latin America

• Tuesday, September 9th 2025 - 20:21 UTC

  Ruto wants UN to manage orderly transition in Haiti as Kenyan forces pull out

  

  Kenyan President William Ruto warned this week that the Multinational Security Support Mission (MSS) led by his country in Haiti would end next month and called on the UN to guide a “responsible transition.”

• Tuesday, September 9th 2025 - 09:57 UTC

  Bolivia: Arce faces paternity lawsuit

  

  Bolivian President Luis Arce Catacora is facing a paternity lawsuit from a former employee of his administration (a former director of the Mining Administrative Jurisdictional Authority - AJAM), who accused him of abandoning her and her child, born in 2024. The case was filed in Cochabamba for the crime of abandonment of a pregnant woman, which carries a penalty of up to three years in prison.

• Tuesday, September 9th 2025 - 09:51 UTC

  Uruguay secures CAF loan for dam construction

  

  Uruguay's state-owned water company, OSE, has secured a US$130 million loan from the CAF-Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean to finance the construction of the Casupá dam, a strategic project to guarantee the supply of drinking water for Montevideo's metropolitan area until 2045.

• Monday, September 8th 2025 - 09:38 UTC

  Argentine finalists of Regional Student Competition to visit “my neighbors in the Falkland Islands”

  

  The British Embassy in Argentina announces the 10 finalists from Argentina to the Regional Student Competition 2025/2026. The applicants answered the question “Why would I like to meet my neighbors in the Falkland Islands?” in a video.

• Monday, September 8th 2025 - 09:31 UTC

  Massive blackout hits eastern Cuba

  

  A massive blackout hit eastern Cuba Sunday, affecting millions of people across five provinces: Las Tunas, Granma, Holguín, Santiago de Cuba, and Guantánamo.

• Friday, September 5th 2025 - 09:55 UTC

  World Cup South American playoffs: 4 teams score 3-0 wins

  

  Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, and Colombia all scored 3-0 wins on Thursday in the penultimate round of the South American Football Confederation's (Conmebol) 2026 World Cup qualifying round.

• Friday, September 5th 2025 - 09:52 UTC

  Violence-halted football match: U de Chile advances

  

  The South American Football Confederation (Conmebol) decided on Thursday at its headquarters in Asunción that the Copa Sudamericana match in Avellaneda between Argentina's Independiente and Universidad de Chile, which was suspended amid hooligan violence, was to be declared as finished, with the Chilean squad advancing to the next round.

• Thursday, September 4th 2025 - 10:22 UTC

  Peru: Vizcarra released from prison

  

  Former Peruvian President Martín Vizcarra was released on Wednesday from his preventive detention as he was deemed to pose a flight risk regarding the charges against him of accepting bribes while he was governor of the Moquegua region (2011-2014).

• Thursday, September 4th 2025 - 09:39 UTC

  Irfaan Ali reelected as President of Guyana

  

  The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) released on Wednesday the results of Monday's polls, confirming the re-election of incumbent President Irfaan Ali of the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C). with 242,498 votes after winning eight of the country's ten regions.

• Wednesday, September 3rd 2025 - 11:30 UTC

  US sinks alleged drug-trafficking boat in Caribbean, killing 11

  

  US President Donald Trump on Tuesday announced a “kinetic strike” on a vessel from Venezuela that was allegedly transporting illegal narcotics. The attack, the first of its kind since the US deployed warships to the southern Caribbean, resulted in the deaths of 11 people.