Latin America
Fri, 05 Sep 2025 09:55:00 GMTWorld Cup South American playoffs: 4 teams score 3-0 wins
Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, and Colombia all scored 3-0 wins on Thursday in the penultimate round of the South American Football Confederation's (Conmebol) 2026 World Cup qualifying round.
Fri, 05 Sep 2025 09:52:00 GMTViolence-halted football match: U de Chile advances
The South American Football Confederation (Conmebol) decided on Thursday at its headquarters in Asunción that the Copa Sudamericana match in Avellaneda between Argentina's Independiente and Universidad de Chile, which was susp...
Thu, 04 Sep 2025 10:22:00 GMTPeru: Vizcarra released from prison
Former Peruvian President Martín Vizcarra was released on Wednesday from his preventive detention as he was deemed to pose a flight risk regarding the charges against him of accepting bribes while he was governor of the Moqueg...
Thu, 04 Sep 2025 09:39:00 GMTIrfaan Ali reelected as President of Guyana
The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) released on Wednesday the results of Monday's polls, confirming the re-election of incumbent President Irfaan Ali of the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C). with 242,498 votes aft...
Wed, 03 Sep 2025 11:30:00 GMTUS sinks alleged drug-trafficking boat in Caribbean, killing 11
US President Donald Trump on Tuesday announced a “kinetic strike” on a vessel from Venezuela that was allegedly transporting illegal narcotics. The attack, the first of its kind since the US deployed warships to the souther...
Tue, 02 Sep 2025 10:12:00 GMTBolivia: Arce not wanted back to his teaching position
Leaders of the Bolivian University Confederation (CUB), grouping college students, formally requested that President Luis Arce Catacora not return to his teaching position in the Economics Department at the Universidad Mayor de...
Mon, 01 Sep 2025 10:26:00 GMTColombia summons Celac FMs to discuss US Caribbean deployment
Colombia, holding the pro tempore presidency of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (Celac), has called an urgent virtual meeting of the organization's foreign ministers to address recent US military movements ...
Mon, 01 Sep 2025 09:52:00 GMTEcuador announces new transit visa requirements
The Ecuadorian Government of President Daniel Noboa announced that, starting Monday, the South American country would require transit visas for holders of passports from 45 nationalities that already require consular approval f...
Mon, 01 Sep 2025 09:51:00 GMTResearchers find wreck of former Uruguayan Navy's ROU 01
The “Uruguay Sub200” scientific expedition, aboard the research vessel Falkor, has discovered the shipwreck of the destroyer ROU-01 Uruguay - formerly the USS Baron - at a depth of 1,160 meters off the coast.
Sat, 30 Aug 2025 10:11:00 GMTPeru: Scientists extracting skeleton of 20-million-year-old bird
A team of Peruvian researchers has discovered the perfectly preserved fossil of a new, giant seabird species believed to be 20 million years old. The skeleton, found in the Ocucaje Desert in the department of Ica, is similar in...