Duque appoints Vice-President Marta Lucía Ramírez as Colombia’s foreign minister
Colombia's vice president, Marta Lucía Ramírez, was appointed this Wednesday foreign minister to replace Claudia Blum, who resigned last week...
May 19, 2021Topic
Politics
Peru: Opposition coalition calls national march against Keiko Fujimori for Saturday
Peruvian social and civil organizations have called for a large march against the presidential candidacy of right-wing Keiko Fujimori as...
May 19, 2021
Mexico will experience elections with unprecedented number of LGBT candidacies
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Mexico will experience on June 6 the largest elections in its history with an unprecedented...
May 17, 2021
A new “great mobilization” called for next May 19 in Colombia
The National Strike Committee (CNP), one of the promoters of the protests that began last April 28, called for a...
May 16, 2021
An indigenous movement wins the presidency of Ecuador’s parliament
Guadalupe Llori, of the indigenous movement Pachakutik, won this Saturday the National Assembly (parliament) presidency after obtaining the support of...
May 16, 2021
First day of voting concludes in Chile; 23,000 soldiers guard ballot boxes overnight
More than 23,000 militaries guarded the ballot boxes. More than three million Chileans cast their vote this Saturday in the...
May 16, 2021
Mexico’s López Obrador claims “nothing to hide” after being denounced at the OAS
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, stated on Thursday, May 13, that he...
May 13, 2021
Background: De-privatization of water, the great promise to constituents in Chile’s new constitution
Rosalba Quiróz, a descendant of a family of small cattle ranchers in Petorca, a rural town in central Chile, lives...
May 13, 2021
Lula would win in a runoff against Bolsonaro in 2022, according to poll
Former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva would beat the current president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, in a possible second...
May 12, 2021