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Tue, 08 Feb 2022 09:55:00 GMT
Argentine President already in Barbados for PM meeting
Argentine President Alberto Fernández Monday landed in Barbados for a meeting Tuesday with Prime Minister Mia Mottley amid strong COVID-19 restrictions for reporters. It is the South American head of state's last stop of an in...

Tue, 08 Feb 2022 09:24:00 GMT
Brazil reports first two cases of Omicron subvariant
Brazil's Fiocruz Institute Monday announced the first two cases of the BA.2 sublineage of the SARS-Cov-2 Omicron variant had been detected in the country: one in the State of Rio de Janeiro and the other in the State of Santa C...

Tue, 08 Feb 2022 09:21:00 GMT
Nicaragua decries El Salvador invaded its territorial waters
The Nicaraguan Government of President Daniel Ortega Monday decried military naval forces of El Salvador had violated its maritime spaces for reasons yet to be determined, since there is no bilateral territorial dispute between...

Mon, 07 Feb 2022 20:26:00 GMT
A former president and a former finance minister reach Costa Rica's runoff
Former Costa Rican President José María Figueres of the National Liberation Party (center-right) Figueres won Sunday's first round of this year's elections but failed to secure a decisive majority, due to which he will need t...

Mon, 07 Feb 2022 09:13:00 GMT
New gas well found in Bolivia, expected to generate millions of dollars
Bolivian President Luis Arce Catacora has confirmed over the weekend the discovery of large gas reserves which -he hoped- would yield substantial profits to the country.

Sun, 06 Feb 2022 19:49:00 GMT
Castillo embraces Conservative values, Bolsonaro says after meeting
Despite mounting opposition against each one of them in their own countries, Presidents Jair Bolsonaro and his Peruvian colleague Pedro Castillo Terrones met last week (Thursday) at the Brazilian Amazonian state of Rondonia, af...

Sun, 06 Feb 2022 19:32:00 GMT
Cuban official says ok to withhold surplus earnings of foreign company workers
Cuba's Foreign Trade Minister Rodrigo Malmierca has said in an interview with local current news magazine Bohemia last week that he saw a contradiction in workers of global companies earning more than those who did the same job...

Sat, 05 Feb 2022 04:53:00 GMT
Cuban prosecutors liken protests to sedition against July 11/12 demonstrators
Cuba's regime Friday ratified charges were being filed against participants in the July 11 and 12 nationwide demonstrations. Prosecutors also made it clear that in the country's legal system protests and sedition were considere...

Fri, 04 Feb 2022 09:55:00 GMT
Killing of human rights defenders and reporters on the rise in LatAm, AI says
Amnesty International (AI) has released a report this week regarding the killing of several human rights defenders and many journalists in the region during the first month of the year 2022.

Fri, 04 Feb 2022 09:50:00 GMT
Ecuadorian authorities speak of “major disaster” following oil spill last week
An oil spill in Ecuador in late January has been spreading over the past few days throughout the Yasuní area reaching unforeseen proportions, it was reported Wednesday.



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