Unasur

• Friday, June 5th 2020 - 08:25 UTC

  Ecuador sovereign bond holders form a committee to begin negotiations

  

  Holders of Ecuador sovereign bonds have formed a committee to hold talks with the country's government on a potential re-profiling of the country's external debt, the group said in a statement on Thursday.

• Tuesday, June 2nd 2020 - 08:50 UTC

  Argentina extends debt negotiations deadline to 12 June: “adjustment margin remains thin”

  

  Argentina extended the deadline to negotiate with its creditors to June 12 and may sweeten its most recent restructuring offer, the country said on Monday, after a previous proposal was deemed insufficient by some investors.

• Wednesday, May 6th 2020 - 09:47 UTC

  Trump denies any US involvement in an alleged failed armed incursion in Venezuela

  

  President Donald Trump on Tuesday denied any involvement by the US government in what Venezuelan officials have called a failed armed incursion in the South American country that led to the capture of two American “mercenaries”.

• Wednesday, April 8th 2020 - 12:30 UTC

  Sanitary aircraft on Thursday will fly “Greg Mortimer” cruise Australians to Melbourne

  

  A charter flight is expected in Montevideo on Thursday, April 9 to pick up and fly home to Australia most of passengers and crew on the “Greg Mortimer”, the cruise vessel stranded off the coast of Uruguay for the last two weeks because 128 people on board have tested positive for Covid 19.

• Wednesday, March 11th 2020 - 09:11 UTC

  Uruguay abandons Unasur and rejoins the TIAR reciprocal assistance treaty

  

  The Uruguayan government announced on Tuesday that it was withdrawing from the Union of South American Nations, Unasur and returning to the Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance, TIAR.

• Saturday, February 29th 2020 - 07:45 UTC

  Bolivia's October presidential election: no statistical support for claims of vote fraud

  

  The following article was published by The Washington Post, based on a report from the MIT Election Data and Science Lab political scientists John Curiel and Jack R Williams (*)

• Friday, February 28th 2020 - 07:45 UTC

  Amnesty International: Major human rights events in the Americas 2019

  

  Amnesty International has documented grave violations of human rights in 2019 in 24 countries across the Americas. Examples of the major human rights events analyzed include:

• Thursday, February 27th 2020 - 09:20 UTC

  Argentine president Fernandez announces meeting with his Uruguayan peer Lacalle Pou

  

  Argentine president Alberto Fernandez held a very positive phone conversation on Wednesday with Uruguayan president-elect Luis Lacalle Pou during which they analyzed the bilateral relation and the regional integration agenda.

• Thursday, January 16th 2020 - 08:58 UTC

  Bolivia interim government asks Argentina to disavow comments from ex president Evo Morales

  

  Bolivia’s Foreign Ministry has asked Argentina’s government to disavow comments by Bolivian former President Evo Morales, currently living in exile in Buenos Aires that called for the organization of armed militias in his home country.

• Monday, November 18th 2019 - 09:50 UTC

  Bolivian interim government cuts relations with Venezuela and orders Cuban medical teams out of the country

  

  Bolivia's interim leadership says it has broken diplomatic ties with the Government of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and ordered Cuban medical teams to leave Bolivia.