Politics

• Wednesday, June 11th 2025 - 10:46 UTC

  Curfew decreed in downtown LA amid surging violence

  

  Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass declared a local state of emergency and imposed a nighttime curfew from 8 pm to 6 am in a one-square-mile area of downtown Los Angeles, effective Tuesday, to curb vandalism and looting amid protests against President Donald Trump’s anti immigration raids.

• Wednesday, June 11th 2025 - 10:32 UTC

  CFK's conviction saga includes attack on TV station and marketing boom

  

  Following Argentine Supreme Court's (CSJN) ruling Tuesday upholding a six-year prison sentence against former President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner in addition to a lifetime disenfranchisement in the so-called Vialidad case, a group of her supporters stormed into the Canal 13 and Todo Noticias (TN) building in Buenos Aires, breaking glasses, smashing cars, and throwing stones and blunt objects.

• Wednesday, June 11th 2025 - 10:24 UTC

  French companies interested in relocating production to Paraguay

  

  French companies have been reported to be exploring the relocation of their production to Paraguay, drawn by its maquila regime and strategic geographic location, according to Benoit Libourel, president of the Paraguayan-French Chamber of Commerce.

• Wednesday, June 11th 2025 - 10:19 UTC

  Venezuela downplays EU's adding it to list of high-risk countries

  

  Venezuela's Foreign Minister Yván Gil rejected his country's inclusion by the European Union (EU) in a list of “high-risk” nations, calling it a “ridiculous” attempt by a “decrepit European elite.”

• Wednesday, June 11th 2025 - 09:47 UTC

  Colombian authorities gun down guerrilla leader Cholinga

  

  Colombian Army troops gunned down Wilmar Pazu Rivera, alias “Cholinga,” a leader of the FARC dissidents' Isaías Pardo Bloc within the Central General Staff (EMC), during a Joint Command of Special Operations (CCOES) mission in the hamlet of Las Dalias, in the municipality of Paez (Cauca), President Gustavo Petro announced.

• Wednesday, June 11th 2025 - 09:32 UTC

  Milei thanks Macron for France's support before the IMF

  

  Before flying to Israel, Argentine President Javier Milei met in Nice this week with his French colleague Emmanuel Macron during the United Nations Oceans Conference to discuss the long-stalled Mercosur-European Union trade agreement.

• Tuesday, June 10th 2025 - 22:52 UTC

  CFK faces arrest and political lifelong ban

  

  Argentina's Supreme Court (CSJN) unanimously upheld a six-year prison sentence and lifelong disenfranchisement from public office for former President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK) in the Vialidad case, which involved irregularities in awarding 51 public road works contracts in Santa Cruz to businessman Lázaro Báez.

• Tuesday, June 10th 2025 - 21:58 UTC

  Argentina commemorates 10 June as Reaffirmation Day of Rights over South Atlantic Islands

  

  Argentina commemorates 10 June as the Reaffirmation Day of Argentine Rights over the Malvinas, South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands, and surrounding maritime spaces. A commemoration that has its roots on a fundamental event that took place in 1829, according to an official release from the Argentine foreign ministry.

• Tuesday, June 10th 2025 - 10:55 UTC

  Incarceration is a “dignity certificate,” CFK claims

  

  Former Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK) said her likely imprisonment, to be probably ruled upon Tuesday by the Supreme Court (CSJN), was a “certificate of dignity,” contrasting her situation with those accused of corruption during the Macrismo government, who -she claimed- faced no consequences.

• Tuesday, June 10th 2025 - 10:29 UTC

  Paraguayan President's X account hacked

  

  The Paraguayan government Monday reported some unauthorized activity on President Santiago Peña's official X account, suggesting a possible hack. The account posted a false claim about Peña announcing legislation to recognize Bitcoin as legal tender, which was quickly debunked by other official channels.