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Thu, 10 Jun 2021 21:15:00 GMT
Cruise industry interested in returning to Uruguay for the 2021/22 season
Uruguay has received over 200 requests for cruise vessels to call in Montevideo and Punta del Este for the coming 2021/22 season, (October/March), according to reports in the local media. Of the 200, 140 requests are for Montev...

Thu, 10 Jun 2021 18:08:00 GMT
Peru: Public Prosecutor requests preventive detention for Keiko Fujimori for failing to comply with probation
The Peruvian public prosecutor's office has requested that conservative presidential candidate Keiko Fujimori be remanded in custody for failing to comply with “the obligations imposed by the Criminal Court of Appeals” by m...

Thu, 10 Jun 2021 17:02:00 GMT
Copa America loses leading sponsoring brewery
The Ambev brewery has announced Wednesday that they had decided to withdraw from the much controversial Copa America football tournament of South American national teams due to start in Brazil this coming weekend.

Thu, 10 Jun 2021 09:45:00 GMT
Peru's elections: Castillo claims victory by around 80,000 votes, Fujimori will challenge the results legally
Leftwing candidate Pedro Castillo, from the Peru Libre party, Wednesday announced he had won the presidential runoff in Peru when votes were still being counted.

Thu, 10 Jun 2021 09:30:00 GMT
Bitcoin legal tender in El Salvador, first country ever
The Parliament of El Salvador has passed with 62 out of 84 votes a bill submitted by President Nayib Bukele to classify Bitcoin as legal tender, thus becoming the first country in the world to adopt a cryptocurrency. Its use as...

Thu, 10 Jun 2021 08:42:00 GMT
Vaccination for teenagers aged 17 to 12 starts in Uruguay
Uruguay Wednesday became the first country in Latin America to extend its anticovid-19 vaccination campaign to children aged between 12 and 17, it was announced.

Wed, 09 Jun 2021 10:14:00 GMT
Peru: After over 99% of votes counted, Castillo's narrow win looks imminent, but Fujimori cries there was fraud
Leftwing candidate Pedro Castillo of the Peru Libre party was leading conservative Keiko Fujimori of Fuerza Popular by 50.253% against 49.747% with 99.282% of the votes counted, according to the National Office of Electoral Pro...

Wed, 09 Jun 2021 09:48:00 GMT
UN concerned over deportation of 56 Venezuelan migrants from Chile
The United Nations (UN) Tuesday voiced their concern about Sunday's deportation of 56 Venezuelan migrants from Chile despite legal actions taken against such a measure.

Wed, 09 Jun 2021 09:25:00 GMT
No mandatory jab for Copa America players in Brazil
Brazil's Health Minister Marcelo Queiroga Monday announced players taking part in the upcoming Copa América shall not be required to be vaccinated, contrary to what had been announced last week.

Wed, 09 Jun 2021 08:30:00 GMT
Kamala Harris tackles migration on Guatemala, Mexico tour
US Vice President Kamala Harris rounded up her first official foreign mission in Mexico City by underlining the need to tackle the "root causes" of migration as crowds at the southwestern border grow by the hour.



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