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Tue, 15 Feb 2022 09:45:00 GMT
ICC prosecutor not to investigate Evo for 2020 road blockades in Bolivia
The International Criminal Court (ICC) based in the Dutch town of The Hague has refused to iunvestigate former Bolivian President Evo Morales for alleged crimes against humanity, it was announced Monday.

Tue, 15 Feb 2022 09:35:00 GMT
Repsol now blames Italian tanker for oil slick off Peru's shore
Spanish state-run oil company Repsol now blames a "sudden movement" of the Italian-flagged Mare Doricum tanker caused the Jan. 15 spill of thousands of barrels of crude oil off the coast of Lima, which has caused a major enviro...

Tue, 15 Feb 2022 09:14:00 GMT
Killings, bombings and threats mark the coming legislative elections in Colombia
In less than a month, on 13th March, Colombians will be going to the polls to renew the Legislative, and according to the Peace and Reconciliation Foundation, there have been 163 victims of political violence, including 19 cand...

Tue, 15 Feb 2022 09:03:00 GMT
US requests extradition of former Honduran President Hernández
A large-scale police raid was underway Monday evening in Tegucigalpa's San Ignacio neighborhood while the Supreme Court is still to grant or reject the request from the United States to extradite former President Juan Orlando H...

Mon, 14 Feb 2022 19:59:00 GMT
New charges to be filed against Jeanine Áñez in Bolivia
Bolivian judicial sources Monday reported a fourth set of charges could be filed against former interim President Jeanine Áñez for crimes that took place during her spell as acting head of state.

Mon, 14 Feb 2022 09:54:00 GMT
Nicaraguan opposition leader Hugo Torres dies in jail
Former Nicaraguan guerrilla leader Hugo Torres Jiménez -who once risked his life to defend current President Daniel Ortega- has died Saturday in jail where he had been placed by the administration of the same man his life he h...

Mon, 14 Feb 2022 08:13:00 GMT
UN envoy due in Bolivia to monitor Áñez's trial
A Special Rapporteur on the Independence of Judges and Lawyers sent by the United Nations (UN) is due in Bolivia this coming Tuesday at the invitation of the local government to assess the conditions under which former interim ...

Sat, 12 Feb 2022 10:06:00 GMT
Latin American and Caribbean parliament call for Falklands' sovereignty talks with UK
The Latin American and Caribbean Parliament, (Parlatino) met this week in Panama and called on the international community to support Argentina's request for a resumption of Falkland/Malvinas Islands sovereignty talks with the ...

Sat, 12 Feb 2022 09:30:00 GMT
New judge also resigns from investigating Haitian president's murder
Haitian Judge Chavannes Étienne, who had been appointed to investigate the July 7 assassination of President Jovenel Moïse, has resigned from the case Friday, thus becoming the fourth magistrate to make the same decision.

Sat, 12 Feb 2022 09:24:00 GMT
Fuel goes up in Paraguay, but tanking up in Argentina not an option
The state-run oil company Petróleos Paraguayos (Petropar) has announced an increase in the price of fuel at pumps effective Saturday, Feb. 12, despite previous announcements that there would be no changes until the end of the ...



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