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Fri, 13 May 2022 08:11:00 GMT
Cuba in mourning over 45 dead from hotel explosion
Cuban authorities Thursday decreed a 42-hour official mourning period starting at dawn Friday to honor the 45 victims of the Saratoga Hotel explosion in Havana last week.

Thu, 12 May 2022 20:32:00 GMT
Colombian media say international terrorism had to do with prosecutor's killing
Two Lebanese nationals and a Brazilian citizen are suspected of having been involved in the murder of Paraguayan Prosecutor Marcelo Pecci while he was honeymooning in Colombia with his wife Claudia Aguilera earlier this week, i...

Thu, 12 May 2022 10:53:00 GMT
Southern Brazil ports and Montevideo have become drugs exporting hubs
The seizure by Brazilian police of 136 kilos of cocaine on a docked ship in the port of Rio Grande, state of Rio Grande do Sul, clearly indicates the existence of an international drug trafficking route, in the south of the co...

Thu, 12 May 2022 10:45:00 GMT
Constitutional Court greenlights medically assisted suicide in Colombia
Colombia's Constitutional Court Wednesday ruled by 6 votes to 3 to decriminalize medically assisted suicide. Euthanasia in Colombia is already legal, but in this case, it is the patient and not the doctor who executes the actio...

Wed, 11 May 2022 20:32:00 GMT
Avianca, GOL agree on strategic partnership
A historic agreement has been reached between Colombian airline Avianca and Brazil's GOL whereby both companies will function under the same holding, thus increasing their mutual presence throughout Latin America, it was announ...

Wed, 11 May 2022 09:40:00 GMT
Decolonization C24 Pacific Regional Seminar opens in Saint Lucia
St Lucia Prime Minister Philip J Pierre, will this Wednesday 11th May, formally open a United Nations Seminar on Decolonization, which is to be held at the Sandals Grande Hotel until 13th May 2022.

Wed, 11 May 2022 09:19:00 GMT
Mexico questions possible country "exclusions" for coming Americas' Summit, in Los Angeles
Mexican president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has warned that he will be absent from the Americans Summit, in Los Angeles next month, if the United States finally decides to exclude from the meeting any country from the region.

Wed, 11 May 2022 07:35:00 GMT
Bachelet urges Ecuador to follow UNHCHR roadmap to end prison massacres
The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights urged the Ecuadorian Government of President Guillermo Lasso to take concrete measures to bring to an end the ongoing streak of prison massacres, following Monday's riot at ...

Tue, 10 May 2022 21:55:00 GMT
Paraguayan anti-drug prosecutor shot dead while honeymooning in Colombia
Paraguayan Prosecutor Marcelo Pecci, whose area of expertise was the fight against drug trafficking, has been shot dead Tuesday while on a honeymoon trip on the Colombian island of Baru near the city of Cartagena, it was report...

Tue, 10 May 2022 10:23:00 GMT
Three arrested in connection with grenade attack at Bolivian university
Bolivian authorities confirmed later Monday they had arrested three people in connection with the explosion of a gas grenade at the Tomás Frías University in Potosí, which resulted in the deaths of four students who were att...



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