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Thu, 19 Aug 2021 09:05:00 GMT
PAHO reports only one out of five Latin Americans are vaccinated against COVID-19 as Delta variant sneaks in
A report released Wednesday by the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) showed that only one out of five Latin Americans had been vaccinated against COVID-19.

Wed, 18 Aug 2021 09:51:00 GMT
IACHR reports summary executions in Bolivia 2019 uprising
A report released Tuesday by an Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) investigation group showed “summary executions” were carried out in Bolivia during the 2019 uprising which resulted in President Evo Morales'...

Wed, 18 Aug 2021 09:34:00 GMT
Peru's FM resigns over comments regarding Navy's involvement in bomb attacks in the 1970s
Peru's Foreign Minister Héctor Béjar Tuesday handed in his resignation to President Pedro Castillo, which was accepted. “I am free again!” posted the departing official on social media.

Wed, 18 Aug 2021 08:45:00 GMT
Fugitive former Bolivian official requests political asylum in Chile after rescue operation
Former Bolivian Deputy Minister of Medium, Large Business and Industry Eduardo Peinado Rivero has entered Chile in a quite unorthodox way and applied for political asylum, it was announced Tuesday.

Wed, 18 Aug 2021 07:21:00 GMT
Peruvian foreign minister, three weeks in the job, resigns
The Peruvian foreign minister Hector Bejar resigned on Tuesday following some controversial statements about the origins of terrorism in his country, thus becoming the first loss in the cabinet of president Pedro Castillo who t...

Tue, 17 Aug 2021 20:45:00 GMT
Brazil tempted by the success of the Suriname and Guyana oil basin developments
Exploration and development of oil and gas resources in the ex Dutch colony of Suriname, now an independent country, was the main point of the agenda addressed by Brazilian foreign minister Carlos Franca and his Surinamese peer...

Tue, 17 Aug 2021 11:07:00 GMT
Aeroméxico announces strategic improvements in South American services
Aeroméxico has announced a new seasonal route between Cancún and São Paulo in addition to their new services to Madrid from Guadalajara and Monterrey.

Tue, 17 Aug 2021 11:04:00 GMT
Bolivia no longer needs Sputnik V and AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines
Bolivian authorities Monday announced that with the last purchase of COVID-19 Sinopharm vaccines, the country was fully supplied with immunizers and would no longer need to import any more doses of Sputnik V and AstraZeneca des...

Tue, 17 Aug 2021 09:04:00 GMT
Polls and proposed prime minister bloat disapproval for Peruvian president
No rest for Peruvian president Pedro Castillo, not only opinion polls show that he is the newly inaugurated president with the lowest approval and highest disapproval since 1980, but his candidate for prime minister is again in...

Mon, 16 Aug 2021 08:02:00 GMT
Death toll from Haiti earthquake reaches 1,297 by Sunday evening
Authorities in charge of the relief efforts after Saturday's earthquake in Haiti Sunday announced the death toll had reached 1,297 and counting. After the 7.2 magnitude earthquake in the Richter scale that struck the southwest ...



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