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Wed, 04 May 2022 22:15:00 GMT
Peru's President said to have plagiarized university thesis a decade ago
Peru's President Pedro Castillo Terrones Wednesday rejected allegations that he and his wife Liliana Paredes had plagiarized the contents of the thesis they filed to get a Masters' Degree in Educational Psychology at the César...

Wed, 04 May 2022 22:09:00 GMT
Son of Bolsonaro insists Milei can become Argentina's next president
Brazilian Deputy Eduardo Bolsonaro, son of President Jair Bolsonaro, held a telephone conversation with his Argentine colleague Javier Milei, whom he reportedly told that “I believe you can be president.”

Wed, 04 May 2022 10:08:00 GMT
Parlatino urges member countries to tackle ballooning food prices
The Latin American and Caribbean Parliament (Parlatino) Tuesday urged its 23 member countries to take measures to curb the soaring food prices which are reaching unprecedented highs, according to the food price index kept by th...

Wed, 04 May 2022 10:00:00 GMT
Argentine Gov't against exclusions from Summit of the Americas
Following the announcement by the United States that the governments of Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela were not going to be invited to June's Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles because they do not respect democracy, Argentin...

Tue, 03 May 2022 19:45:00 GMT
Bachelet envoy at odds with Colombian Gov't over FARC massacre
The Government of Colombia said the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights' envoy had everything mixed up regarding the responsibilities of the State in the Bojayá massacre perpetrated by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colom...

Mon, 02 May 2022 09:23:00 GMT
Turkey entices Latin American leaders to get Putin, Zelensky to discuss end to war
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu insisted over the weekend that the Government of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was conducting a series of efforts to organize a meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and...

Mon, 02 May 2022 07:48:00 GMT
Former Cuban FM Ricardo Alarcón dead at age 84
Former Cuban Foreign Minister and Chairman of the Cuban National Assembly, Ricardo Alarcón died Saturday night in Havana, President Miguel Díaz-Canel announced Sunday. Alarcón was 84. He was a widower and is survived by a da...

Sat, 30 Apr 2022 09:54:00 GMT
Turkish FM signs bilateral agreements on his Caracas visit
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu Friday signed in Caracas a series of agreements between his country and Venezuela in areas such as financial economy, agriculture and fishing, tourism, sports, health and medicine, ...

Sat, 30 Apr 2022 09:54:00 GMT
Slowdown deepens in Latin America with regional growth forecasted at 1,8% this year, ECLAC report
The economies of Latin America and the Caribbean face a complex situation in 2022 because of the Russia/Ukraine war with its shadow of uncertainty for the world economy. This is negatively affecting global growth, and at region...

Sat, 30 Apr 2022 09:50:00 GMT
State of emergency declared in violence-torn Ecuadorian provinces
President Guillermo Lasso Friday decreed a state of emergency for two months in three of Ecuador's provinces where the crime rate has reached historic levels, it was announced.



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