Politics

• Thursday, April 14th 2022 - 09:50 UTC

  Four Colombian soldiers killed by dissident FARC group

  

  Four Colombian regular soldiers were killed in a rural area of the department of Meta after they were ambushed by a group of dissidents from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), the Omega Joint Task Force said in a statement.

• Thursday, April 14th 2022 - 09:43 UTC

  Argentina: CFK acquitted in gas overpricing case

  

  Argentine Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK) has been acquitted in the case of alleged overpricing in the purchase of Liquefied National Gas. Judge Julián Ercolini's ruling also reached her former aides Julio De Vido, Roberto Baratta, and other officials of her administration.

• Thursday, April 14th 2022 - 09:37 UTC

  Buenos Aires: EuroLat due to vote on agreed topics

  

  Argentine Vice President Cristina Fernàndez de Kirchner (CFK) welcomed to Buenos Aires' Kirchner Cultural Center (CCK) the more than 100 lawmakers who participated in this year's Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly (EuroLat) sessions under the slogan “A fair, inclusive, and peaceful economic recovery.”

• Wednesday, April 13th 2022 - 20:50 UTC

  Lula vows to halt garimpo on Indigenous lands

  

  Former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva Tuesday pledged to halt all illegal gold mining -locally known as garimpo- at Indigenous reserves in the country's northeast if he is elected back into office in October.

• Wednesday, April 13th 2022 - 20:44 UTC

  Bolsonaro downplays Armed Forces Viagra scandal

  

  Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro Wednesday downplayed the importance of the alleged scandal regarding the purchase of 35,000 pills of Viagra, a medication used to treat erectile dysfunction.

• Wednesday, April 13th 2022 - 20:40 UTC

  Warrant issued for preventive arrest of Peruvian President nephews

  

  A Lima judge has ordered the preventive arrest for 36 months of two nephews of Peruvian President Pedro Castillo Terrones as well as of his former aide Bruno Pacheco for their alleged involvement in cases of corruption, it was reported.

• Wednesday, April 13th 2022 - 20:30 UTC

  Terrorist who killed British MP gets life in jail

  

  A London Court Wednesday handed down a life imprisonment sentence on convicted terrorist Ali Harbi Ali for the Oct. 16, 2021, murder of British Conservative MP Sir David Amess.

• Wednesday, April 13th 2022 - 10:45 UTC

  “Argentina never created conditions for Falkland Islanders to become Argentine citizens”, lawmaker Milei

  

  “Malvinas sovereignty negotiations are going to be very long. it's a complicated issue”, and although a territorial claim, “Argentina never created the conditions for Falkland Islanders to want to become Argentine citizens”, said Javier Milei, an Argentine member of the Lower House who was the sensation of last October's midterm election

• Wednesday, April 13th 2022 - 09:41 UTC

  Abdo enacts law eliminating fuel subsidies to Paraguayan brand fuels

  

  Paraguay's President Mario Abdo Benítez Tuesday signed into law the suppression of subsidies to the price of fuel at pumps which helped the state-run Petróleos Paraguayos SA (Petropar) against all competitors.

• Wednesday, April 13th 2022 - 09:40 UTC

  Sea mines and stranded crews in Black Sea ports, with 100 merchant ships blocked

  

  Sea mines and stranded crews in Black Sea ports is another consequence of the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine. Both Turkey and Romania navies have reported neutralizing sea mines, or rather anchor mines, since they do not float on the surface but rather just beneath it with an anchor supporting the floating device.