BUENOS AIRES – Argentina says that consumer prices rose 6.5% in September bringing the twelve months inflation rate to 40.5%, one of the world’s highest. The inflation rate published by the official statistics agency Indec, […]
RIO DE JANEIRO – Brazil’s federal police on Tuesday brought new charges of corruption, money laundering and conspiracy to commit crimes against President Michel Temer. The federal police investigated for more than a year whether […]
LIMA – A man in Peru has parted ways with his wife after she was caught cheating with another man on Google Maps. The man was reportedly looking up directions to a popular bridge in […]
LIMA – Keiko Fujimori, the daughter of the former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori, has been arrested over charges of money laundering and accepting illegal campaign financing. Mrs. Fujimori, who is head of Peru’s opposition Popular […]
CARACAS – A Venezuelan opposition councilman, who was detained over what officials say was a drone assassination attempt on President Nicolás Maduro in August, has died in a ‘suicide’. Fernando Albán jumped from the 10th […]
RIO DE JANEIRO – The controversial far-right candidate in Brazil’s presidential election, Jair Bolsonaro, won the first round on Sunday by a margin of 17 percentage points but fell short of the 50% of valid […]
RIO DE JANEIRO – Brazilians are going to the polls to vote in the most polarised presidential election for many years. Polling has started in almost all of Brazil in its general elections, except for […]
LIMA – Peru’s ex-president Alberto Fujimori said from his hospital bed on Thursday that a return to prison would be a “death sentence,” the day after a court revoked a pardon for crimes against humanity. […]
BUENOS AIRES – Former Argentine president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and her children, Florencia Kirchner and Máximo Kirchner, will face trial on alleged money-laundering allegations after a federal judge this week decided to elevate his […]
LIMA – A Peruvian judge has annulled the medical pardon for former strongman Alberto Fujimori and ordered him sent back to prison. Ex-president Pedro Pablo Kuczynski pardoned Fujimori, who ruled as a dictator during the […]
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