Politics

• Friday, May 13th 2022 - 08:11 UTC

  Cuba in mourning over 45 dead from hotel explosion

  

  Cuban authorities Thursday decreed a 42-hour official mourning period starting at dawn Friday to honor the 45 victims of the Saratoga Hotel explosion in Havana last week.

• Thursday, May 12th 2022 - 20:32 UTC

  Colombian media say international terrorism had to do with prosecutor's killing

  

  Two Lebanese nationals and a Brazilian citizen are suspected of having been involved in the murder of Paraguayan Prosecutor Marcelo Pecci while he was honeymooning in Colombia with his wife Claudia Aguilera earlier this week, it was reported.

• Thursday, May 12th 2022 - 20:12 UTC

  Finland to apply for NATO membership after all

  

  The Government of Finland Thursday confirmed its country's intention to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), President Sauli Niinistö and Prime Minister Sanna Marin announced Thursday.

• Thursday, May 12th 2022 - 19:32 UTC

  CAM calls for Mapuche armed resistance in southern Chile

  

  Despite the head of state's pro-Native People's rights stance, a Mapuche group in southern Chile Wednesday likened current President Gabriel Boric Font to his rightwing predecessor Sebastián Piñera and called for armed resistance in the face of a possible military deployment.

• Thursday, May 12th 2022 - 10:56 UTC

  Argentina a reliable partner, German Chancellor says

  

  German Chancellor Olaf Scholz Wednesday said Argentina was “a reliable partner” upon welcoming President Alberto Fernández in Berlín on the second stop of the South American leader's new European tour.

• Thursday, May 12th 2022 - 10:53 UTC

  New poll says Lula may not need a runoff to win Brazil's elections in October

  

  Following weeks of uncertainty during which incumbent President Jair Bolsonaro was closing in on challenger and former head of state Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva in most polls, the Workers' Party (PT) leftwing leader has been once again reported to have an unsurmountable edge which could even earn him a first-round victory comes Oct. 2.

• Thursday, May 12th 2022 - 10:53 UTC

  Southern Brazil ports and Montevideo have become drugs exporting hubs

  

  The seizure by Brazilian police of 136 kilos of cocaine on a docked ship in the port of Rio Grande, state of Rio Grande do Sul, clearly indicates the existence of an international drug trafficking route, in the south of the country and neighboring Uruguay.

• Thursday, May 12th 2022 - 10:52 UTC

  EU wants to sign stalled trade agreements, but with Mercosur objections persist

  

  The European Union aims to finalize and sign at least three stalled trade agreements this year as the bloc looks to reinforce strategic alliances amid the turmoil caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

• Thursday, May 12th 2022 - 10:45 UTC

  Constitutional Court greenlights medically assisted suicide in Colombia

  

  Colombia's Constitutional Court Wednesday ruled by 6 votes to 3 to decriminalize medically assisted suicide. Euthanasia in Colombia is already legal, but in this case, it is the patient and not the doctor who executes the action to end his or her life.

• Thursday, May 12th 2022 - 10:08 UTC

  Chile's Lower House passes Escazú treaty bill

  

  Chile's President Gabriel Boric Font Wednesday praised his country's Lower House for approving the Escazú 'green' treaty, which he said was “a milestone” in the path towards a new relationship “between the State and its inhabitants in environmental matters.”