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Sat, 07 Aug 2021 09:25:00 GMT
Nicaraguan electoral authorities ban opposition party altogether
After weeks of arresting individual politicians and candidates, Nicaraguan authorities Friday upped their ante and chose to fully outlaw an entire opposition party.

Sat, 07 Aug 2021 08:21:00 GMT
Some 44% of Mexicans, 56 million, were considered poor at the end of 2020
Of the 126 million Mexican population, almost 44% were considered poor at the end of 2020, according to official data from the government. In effect, 3,8 million Mexicans fell below the official poverty line last year to reach ...

Fri, 06 Aug 2021 22:17:00 GMT
Peru tilts towards China, but taxing miners will become a controversial issue
Recently inaugurated Peruvian president Pedro Castillo seems to be clearly tilting his country towards China: cabinet members have met with the Beijing ambassador, an updating of the 2009 trade accord between the two countries ...

Fri, 06 Aug 2021 07:34:00 GMT
Latin America and Caribbean FDI in 2020 was the lowest since 2010, ECLAC annual report
Latin America and the Caribbean received US$105.48 billion in Foreign Direct Investment, FDI, in 2020 – 34.7% less than in 2019, 51% less than the record high achieved in 2012, and the lowest since 2010, the Economic Commissi...

Thu, 05 Aug 2021 20:37:00 GMT
Another court case and six more months of jail for ex interim Bolivian president
Bolivian ex-president Jeanine Añez will have to spend at least a whole year in jail since a Judge this week extended her preventive imprisonment for another six months when she is about to complete her first half-year of reclu...

Thu, 05 Aug 2021 20:06:00 GMT
Mexico files law suit against US main gun manufacturers
Mexico on Wednesday filed a major lawsuit against the United States gun manufacturers for the massive damage caused by “the unlawful trafficking of guns to drug cartels and other criminals in Mexico”.

Thu, 05 Aug 2021 09:46:00 GMT
Peruvian president purges Armed Forces command; names new military chiefs
Peruvian president Pedro Castillo renewed the Armed Forces Joint Command, with the appointment of a new chief and new heads in the Army, Navy and Air Force. The new Joint Command will be headed by the up to now Army commander, ...

Thu, 05 Aug 2021 08:04:00 GMT
Nicaraguan regime reportedly arrests opposition VP candidate
The Nicaraguan regime headed by former Sandinista guerrilla leader Daniel Ortega Wednesday has reportedly placed vice-presidential opposition candidate Berenice Quezada under arrest in an unprecedented streak of political perse...

Thu, 05 Aug 2021 07:47:00 GMT
Chinese lab Sinovac lands in Chile to pack and manufacture vaccines locally
Chinese laboratory Sinovac Wednesday announced it will build a plant in Chile to locally distribute 60 million yearly doses of the Coronavac vaccine against COVID-19 with which to supply other Latin American countries.

Wed, 04 Aug 2021 09:36:00 GMT
Latin American countries eye Argentine production of Russian vaccine to cover regional demand
Several South American countries as well as the Russian developers of the Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine are relying on Argentina's output of the immunizer to cope with regional demand.



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