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Thu, 16 Sep 2021 09:45:00 GMT
Ortega leads Nicaragua towards authoritarianism, says Blinken
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken Wednesday said Nicaraguan President and former guerrilla leader Daniel Ortega was leading the Central American country “down the dark path of authoritarianism,” as most political opponen...

Thu, 16 Sep 2021 09:35:00 GMT
Brazil’s STF suspends revisiting case involving ancestral lands
Brazil's Federal Superior Court (STF) Wednesday decided to call off debating a land case which involves requests from indigenous groups, at the request of one Justice, who asked for “more time”

Thu, 16 Sep 2021 09:25:00 GMT
IDB President sees a plethora of opportunities ahead in Uruguay
“Uruguay could be a Silicon Valley of the south”, said Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) President Mauricio Claver-Carone Wednesday after meeting in Montevideo with President Luis Lacalle Pou.

Wed, 15 Sep 2021 09:40:00 GMT
Maduro appoints jailed ally, with pending extradition to US, to political talks with the opposition in Mexico
Venezuela has announced that it will incorporate the government delegation in negotiations with the political opposition in Mexico, Alex Saab, a close ally jailed in Cape Verde, Africa who is to be extradited to the United Stat...

Wed, 15 Sep 2021 09:34:00 GMT
Argentine government said to be eyeing injecting pesos into the market to bounce back from electoral loss
The Frente de Todos coalition ruling Argentina is said to be going through an internal crisis following last Sunday's results at the Mandatory, Simultaneous and Open Primary (PASO) elections where it lost some 4.8 million votes...

Tue, 14 Sep 2021 09:01:00 GMT
Uruguayan government warns border municipalities that reopening of border crossings with Argentina will take two months
Uruguayan federal authorities Monday conveyed to mayors of Salto (Andrés Lima), Paysandú (Nicolás Olivera) and Río Negro (Omar Lafluf) that the reopening of land crossings with Argentina will take at least two more months.

Tue, 14 Sep 2021 08:50:00 GMT
Paraguayan Ambassador in Cuba dies of COVID-19
Paraguay's Ambassador to Cuba Bernardino Cano Radil has died Sunday of COVID-19 in Havanna, it was reported. He was 65.

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 08:29:00 GMT
Arrests, protests and looting in Santiago on the anniversary of the military coup
Some eleven people were arrested in Chile following the rioting and looting in Santiago on the 48th anniversary of the military coup led by General Augusto Pinochet that in September 1973 overthrew the government of democratica...

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 08:19:00 GMT
Australian intelligence worked with the CIA in the Chilean coup of 1973
Australia was involved in espionage operations in Chile during the seventies, in support of the United States CIA agency activities conspiring against the democratically elected government of Socialist Salvador Allende, ousted ...

Sun, 12 Sep 2021 08:05:00 GMT
Former Peruvian guerrilla leader Abimael Guzmán dies aged 86
Abimael Guzmán, former leader and founder of the infamous guerrilla movement Shining Path (Sendero Luminoso) which has left some 69,000 people dead, has died Saturday in prison. He was 86.



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